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Theresa Russell - "Lina Moebius"
Screen
siren Theresa Russell made her acting debut at age 19 in the film
adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, directed by
the late, great Elia Kazan and starring screen legends Robert Mitchum,
Robert DeNiro and Jack Nicholson. Now, she stars in the new Kevin
Williamson drama Glory Days as Hazel Walker, Glory Island's aging
bombshell and owner of the small town's diner.
Discovered
by a photographer when she was just 12 years old, Russell began
modeling and entered the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Her many
film credits include starring opposite Dustin Hoffman in Straight
Time and portraying a seductive serial killer in Bob Rafelson's
Black Widow.
It
was her powerful, sexually frank work as a woman involved with a
psychiatrist in the provocative Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession
with Harvey Keitel and Art Garfunkel that established her as a major
actress, unafraid to take chances with risky material. The film
was also her first with British director Nicolas Roeg; the two fell
in love and later married. She has gone on to act in six more of
his films, including Insignificance along with Gary Busey and Tony
Curtis.
More
recently, Russell was featured in Wild Things with Matt Dillon,
Neve Campbell and Denise Richards; Lucky Town opposite Kirsten Dunst
and James Caan.
On
television, Russell appeared as Maureen Dean in the miniseries Blind
Ambition and as Hazel Walker on Glory Days.
Russell
is a native of Los Angeles, Calif. When not working, Russell enjoys
playing tennis and cooking for her family.
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