Matinee Classics - Keri Russell Biography & Filmography

Keri Russell ACTOR

KERI RUSSELL BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Keri Russell was born on March 23rd, 1976 in Fountain Valley, California with the birth name Keri Lynn Russell, born to David and Stephanie Russell. Her career as an actress first began by working as a cast member at the age of fifteen with, "The All New Mickey Mouse Club" (1989).

She was raised in Mesa, Arizona and Denver, Colorado. Upon earning her high school diploma from Highlands Ranch High School in Colorado, she decided to make the move to Los Angeles and pursue a fulltime career as an actress. She began with finding work on the television series, "Married With Children" (1995), "Malibu Shores" (1996) followed by a role in the film, "Eight Days a Week" and the television movie, "When Innocence is Lost" (1997) starring alongside Jill Clayburgh.

Keri was then cast in the role that would take her stardom to the next level on the television series, "Felicity" (1998) portraying Felicity Porter. She won her first Golden Globe Award for her performance and stayed as a cast member until 2002.

Since then, Russell has remained working in the industry adding a number of other film and television series roles to her credits. Some of her more well known film roles later in her career include appearances on such features as, "Mad About Mambo" (2000), "We Were Soldiers" (2002) starring Mel Gibson, "The Upside of Anger" (2005), "Mission: Impossible III" (2006) starring Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames and Laurence Fishburne, "Waitress" (2007), "August Rich" (2007), "Bedtime Stories" (2008) and "Extraordinary Measures" (2010) co-starring Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford and Courtney Vance.

Along with working as a film and television actress she added her first Broadway credit in 2004 appearing in a stage production of, "Fat Pig".

Keri Russell has married only once to Shane Deary in 2007 and they have two children together and remain married today. Most recently she has appeared on the television series, "Running Wilde" (2010-2011) and the films, "Goats" (2012) and "Austenland" (2012). She has also worked as a model and spokesperson for Cover Girl Cosmetics.

Filmography

2012 Austenland

2012 Goats

2010-2011 Running Wilde

2010 Extraordinary Measures

2009 Leaves of Grass

2009 Wonder Woman

2008 Bedtime Stories

2007 August Rush

2007 The Girl in the Park

2007 Scrubs

2007 Waitress

2006 Grimm Love

2006 Mission: Impossible III

2005 Into the West

2005 The Magic of Ordinary Days