Keri Russell
☼ Born on 23 December 1976, in Fountain Valley, California, USA
Biography
Most recently, Keri can be seen starring in "The Diplomat" for Netflix in which Keri plays the titular role of an American Diplomat in London. She also stars in an episode of the limited anthology series "Extrapolations" created by Scott Burns. She also recently starred in "Cocaine Bear" for Universal Pictures from director Elizabeth Banks. Last year, she starred in the supernatural horror thriller "Antlers" for director Scott Cooper and producer Guillermo del Toro, and in "Star Wars: Episode IX" which reunited her with friend and director J.J. Abrams.
For six seasons Keri starred in the critically acclaimed FX series "The Americans" for which she received a Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama, three Emmy Award nominations, two Golden Globe Award nominations, six Critics' Choice Award nominations - one win - and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Russell's film credits include "We Were Soldiers," "Mad About Mambo," "The Upside of Anger," "Mission Impossible III," "August Rush," "The Girl In The Park," "Bedtime Stories," Extraordinary Measures," "Goats," "Austenland," "Dark Skies," "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes," "Free State Of Jones," and the romantic comedy "Waitress" for which she received rave reviews.
Keri first garnered attention when she starred in the title role of the hit television series "Felicity" from J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves. Just four months after the show's acclaimed premiere on the WB, she was honored with a Golden G
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lobe® Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series.
Keri's other television credits include the miniseries "Into the West," executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation "The Magic of Ordinary Days," and "Running Wilde" with Will Arnett.
Keri starred alongside Adam Driver in the Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's "Burn This." The limited engagement play, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer, opened in March 2019 and ran through July 2019.
Russell returned to New York theatre after making her off- Broadway stage debut in production of Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig," in 2005.
In the role of actor
Cocaine Bear (23/02/2023)
A bear goes on a rampage in a National Park after ingesting cocaine in Cocaine Bear. Multiple duffle bags containing cocaine are dumped out of a plane into the Chattahoochee National Forest right before the drug runner dies while trying to skydive. St. Louis drug lord Sydney White (Ray Liotta) sends his song Eddie (Alden […]
Antlers (28/10/2021)
A school teacher in a small Oregon town becomes concerned about the well-being of one of her students in Antlers. Julia Meadows (Keri Russell) is a middle-school teacher, who has recently moved back to her Oregon hometown, where she lives with her sheriff brother Paul (Jesse Plemons). Julia becomes concerned about one of her students […]
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (13/07/2014)
The stakes are raised in the second film of this rebooted Planet of the Apes series. In the decade since the first film, the drug that has made apes smarter has also resulted in a global pandemic that killed half the world’s human population. Caesar (Andy Serkis) has been living a peaceful existence with the […]
Dark Skies (24/02/2013)
From Fire in the Sky to The Fourth Kind, alien abduction has always been a popular subject of sci-fi/horror films. It’s not really surprising, since the thought of extraterrestrials kidnapping and experimenting on humans is quite terrifying. In fact, seeing such stories on 1990s paranormal TV shows, such as Sightings, sometimes gave me nightmares as […]