Theresa Russell Filmography

Spider-Man 3

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco

Synopsis: Your friendly neighborhood web-slinger is back, only this time his sunny outlook has become partially overcast in the third chapter of director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man saga. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco return to reprise their roles from the previous two installments, with Thomas Haden Church Read More

Jolene

Actors: Jessica Chastain, Dermot Mulroney, Donald Sutherland, Michael Vartan

Synopsis: Author E.L. Doctorow's acclaimed short story Jolene: A Life gets the big screen treatment in Mrs. Palfrey at the Clairemont's director Dan Ireland's independent drama about life on the road. Jolene (Jessica Chastain) is a red-haired wanderer who isn't content to call one place home for any Read More

American Heiress [TV Series]

Synopsis: The sixth of the prime time "novelas" offered by the fledgling MyNetwork service, American Heiress was based on the Spanish-language TVAzteca soap opera (La Heredera--and could just as easily have been retitled "The Perils of Elizabeth." Alice Leigh Willis starred as toothsome young heiress Read More

Now & Forever

Actors: Mia Kirshner, Adam Beach, Gordon Tootoosis, Theresa Russell, Gabriel Olds

Synopsis: Two young people learn an invaluable lesson about what love really means in this romantic drama. Angela (Mia Kirshner) and John (Adam Beach) have been close friends since childhood, and as they've grown into adulthood, John's feelings for Angela have matured into love. John is of Cree Indian Read More

Empire Falls

Actors: Nesbitt Blaisdell, Michael Brockman, Dennis Farina, William Fichtner, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Adam Le Fevre, Carey Lowell, Stephen Mendillo, Larry Pine, Emily Wachtel, Robin Wright Penn, Matthew Dixon, Harold Withee, Matt Blumm, Miles Chandler, Kortney Adams, David Altshuler, Doree A. Austin, Bradley J. Van Dussen, Troy Faucher, Bryant R. Garrett, Stephen E. Hodgdon, James K. Small, Birdie Katz, Wilma Keem, Tina Konstantoulaki, June Marie Krumholz, Gail R. Pelotte, Scott Riccio, David Montgomery, Dan Pleva, Delia Robertson, Timothy J. Ryan, Linda Saulter, Adam L. Sirois, Tony Takacs, Kaile R. Jr. Warren, Claire Winters, Ed Harris, Danielle Panabaker, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Helen Hunt, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: This two-part HBO miniseries is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo. Having long since sacrificed youthful ideals and values to remain in his New England hometown for the sake of his family, middle-aged Miles Roby (Ed Harris) finds his "secure" little world disintegrating Read More

Blind Injustice

Synopsis: After she is savagely attacked by a rapist, blind lawyer Diana Scott (Jamie Luner) is determined to help the police nail the perpetrator. Using her heightened non-visual senses, she narrows the search down to one Malcolm Humphries (Tood Sandomirsky), who on the bais of Diana's testimony is thrown Read More

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Synopsis: The Z Channel wasn't America's first premium cable outlet specializing in feature films, and it wasn't the most commercially successful, but few, if any, had as strong an impact on the film industry or a more influential list of customers. Based in California and blanketing sections of the state Read More

Passionada

Actors: Jason Isaacs, Sofia Milos, Emmy Rossum, Theresa Russell, Lupe Ontiveros, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: A woman learning to trust men again finds herself falling for a man who may not be trustworthy in this romantic comedy. Celia Amonte (Sofia Milos) is a beautiful woman of Portuguese-American heritage who lost her husband, a fisherman, to an accident at sea. Eight years after his death, Celia Read More

Love Comes Softly

Synopsis: In the family-entertainment tradition of his multi-talented father Michael Landon, writer/director Michael Landon Jr. offered this made-for-cable frontier drama, adapted from a novel by Janet Oke. En route to her new home in the West, Marty Claridge (Katherine Heigl) suddenly finds herself a Read More

The Box

Synopsis: Richard Pepin's The Box stars James Russo as Frank Miller, an ex-convict attempting to live on the right side of the law. He works at a coffee shop in Los Angeles and is starting a relationship with his co-worker Marie Evans (Theresa Russell), who has attempted to begin life over after making a Read More

The Believer

Actors: Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell, Billy Zane, A.D. Miles

Synopsis: In this powerful and disturbing drama, Danny Balint (Ryan Gosling) is a member of a gang of racist skinheads who espouses a vile but well-articulated philosophy of anti-Semitism. Danny also has a secret -- he is a Jew, and was a top student in Hebrew school before he began to ask too many Read More

Project Viper

Actors: Theresa Russell, Patrick Muldoon, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: A NASA spacecraft taking an experimental bioengineered life form, named V.I.P.E.R., to live on Mars doesn't even make it out of Earth's orbit before the thing escapes its pod and slays the crew. Luckily, NASA can cover up the disaster, because that creature is stuck in outer space. The bad news Read More

Searching for Debra Winger

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, Emmanuelle Béart, Katrin Cartlidge, Laura Dern

Synopsis: Directed by actress Rosanna Arquette, this candid documentary is not only about the iconoclastic and somewhat reclusive film star Debra Winger (who does not even appear onscreen until an hour into the film), but also about the trials and tribulations of actresses in Hollywood who have reached Read More

Earth vs. the Spider

Actors: Theresa Russell, Dan Aykroyd, Amelia Heinle, Devon Gummersall

Synopsis: This film was part of Cinemax's Creature Feature films, which remade classic American-International monster films from the '50s. Quentin Kimmer (Devon Gummersall) believes he will turn himself into his idol, the Arachnid Avenger, when he injects himself with spider serum. As with Jeff Goldblum's Read More

The House Next Door

Actors: Theresa Russell, James Russo, Sean Young

Synopsis: Young marrieds Lori (A.J. Cook) and Tom (Matthew Harrison III) relocate from Chicago to the country where they end up living next to Carl (James Russo), a right-wing radical who beats his wife, Helen (Theresa Russell). When Tom goes away for a few days, Lori, with the help of best friend, Monica (Sean Young Read More

Wild Things

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Theresa Russell, Denise Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Bill Murray

Synopsis: This thriller takes place in Blue Bay, Florida, where social-climbing guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon) is indifferent to teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards), who retaliates by accusing him of rape, an accusation that leads to his suspension by the school and a rejection Read More

Running Woman

Actors: Andrew Robinson, Theresa Russell

Synopsis: Theresa Russell stars in this suspense drama as an art restoration expert living in Los Angeles who falls into a deep depression after her son is killed during a carjacking. As she attempts to investigate the murder on her own, she uncovers a vast web of corruption that involves the police Read More

The Proposition

Actors: Theresa Russell, Patrick Bergin, Richard Lynch, Richard Harrington, Jennifer Vaughan

Synopsis: A fiercely proud, high-born 19th-century Welsh widow finds herself in desperate need of quick cash in order to save her late husband's estate. There are only two real ways to save it; one is to marry an aristocratic regional sheriff whom she despises, and the other is to find enough money to pay Read More

Once You Meet a Stranger

Synopsis: Filmed for television, Once You Meet a Stranger is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, using the same Patricia Highsmith novel as its source but transforming the protagonists into females. A chance meeting brings together former child star Sheila Gaines (Jacqueline Bisset) and the Read More

The Grotesque

Actors: Alan Bates, Theresa Russell, Sting

Synopsis: The Grotesque (aka Grave Indiscretion, aka Gentleman Don't Eat Poets) is a very black, very British comedy that puts an unusual and perversely entertaining spin on the classic tea-cup-and-intrigue mystery. Sir Hugo Coal (Alan Bates) is a grumpy, eccentric English gentleman (and Read More

Erotic Tales II

Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of three steamy vignettes from three different filmmakers. The first, Cinzia Torrini's "Sweeties," follows the desperation of a rotund, neglected housewife who goes to a psychic for help. The mystical woman gives the housewife a few special sweets with the warning that Read More

Public Enemy No. 1

Actors: Theresa Russell, Dan Cortese, Alyssa Milano, Frank Stallone, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: This action-packed, fact-based crime drama tells the story of Ma Barker and how she turned her four sons into ruthless criminals in hopes of escaping a life of intense poverty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Spy Within

Synopsis: Alex (Theresa Russell is a government agent who trades sex for state secrets. Will (Scott Glenn) is a taciturn demolition expert troubled by a violent past. When the two find themselves being pursued by the same nefarious spy ring, bullets start flying and bedsprings start creaking. ~ Jonathan Read More

Being Human

Actors: Robin Williams, John Turturro, Anna Galiena, Vincent D'Onofrio, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: Five fables, each set in a different historical era, make up this quirky comedy from director Bill Forsyth. Each tale features Robin Williams as a basically decent but troubled average man named Hector. Beginning with the Bronze Age, where Hector struggles for survival against barbarians, the film Read More

Thicker Than Water

Actors: Theresa Russell, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Pugh

Synopsis: Teresa Russell plays dual roles as twins in this made-for-television English thriller. Based on the book of the same name by Dylan Jones, Russell stars as twin sisters Debbie and Jo. When Jo is killed in a car accident, twin Debbie assumes her sister's life and family, making everyone suspicious Read More

A Woman's Guide to Adultery

Actors: Theresa Russell, Sean Bean, Amanda Donohoe, Adrian Dunbar, Ingrid Lacey

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Carol Clewlow, the three-part British miniseries A Woman's Guide to Adultery chronicled the sexual interrelations between three married couples. Only Rose (Theresa Russell), the nominal heroine, abstained from extramarital hanky-panky. However, the siren song of Temptation Read More

Cold Heaven

Actors: Theresa Russell, Mark Harmon, James Russo, Talia Shire, Will Patton

Synopsis: Nicolas Roeg's Cold Heaven (based on a novel by Brian Moore) examines grief and loss and spiritual questions concerning belief and faith. Theresa Russell plays Maria, a woman in deep despair over the death of her husband Alex (Mark Harmon) in a boating accident. When Alex's body disappears from Read More

Kafka

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: Steve Soderbergh did a 180 degree turnaround from his debut film sex, lies, and videotape with Kafka, a stark art-film fable for literature majors. Jeremy Irons plays a fictional Franz Kafka, living in Prague in 1919. By day, Kafka works in a massive, impersonal insurance company. At night, he Read More

Whore

Actors: Theresa Russell, Benjamin Mouton, Antonio Fargas, Sanjay, Elizabeth Morehead

Synopsis: Russell's avowed purpose with Whore was to avoid the glamorous depiction of prostitution common to such slick Hollywood products as Pretty Woman. As played by Theresa Russell (no relation to Ken), the eponymous character lives a hellish existence. Relating her story directly to the camera, Russell Read More

Impulse

Actors: Theresa Russell, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alan Rosenberg, Shawn Elliott, Nicholas Mele

Synopsis: Actress Sondra Locke directed this visceral film noir about undercover cop Lottie Mason (Theresa Russell). A narcotics cop with the LAPD, she works a second shift at night as an undercover vice cop. Lottie works the bars and lures johns into the arms of the law. But her life is in a rut, and she Read More

Physical Evidence

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty, Kay Lenz, Ted McGinley

Synopsis: Though this police and courtroom drama did not do well at the box-office, some reviewers thought that the lead performances by Burt Reynolds and Theresa Russell were first-rate. Joe Paris (Reynolds) is a policeman suspended from active duty. He awakens from an alcoholic binge to discover that he Read More

Track 29

Actors: Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Sandra Bernhard, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: A dissatisfied woman encounters a mysterious stranger who may be her long-lost son in this peculiar, darkly comic drama. Theresa Russell plays the deeply disappointed Linda Henry, who feels stifled by a strained marriage to Dr. Henry Henry (Christopher Lloyd), who pays more attention to his model Read More

Aria

Actors: Theresa Russell, Nicola Swain, Buck Henry, Jackson Kyle, Julie Hagerty, Marianne McLoughlin, Marion Peterson, Tilda Swinton

Synopsis: An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera. The approaches vary broadly, from the playful abstraction of Jean-Luc Godard's segment, which illustrates Armide with exercising Read More

Black Widow

Actors: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: Black Widow bears no relation to the 1954 film of the same name--beyond its characterization of the female as the deadlier of the species, that is. Debra Winger stars as a federal agent who has sworn to bring Theresa Russell to justice. Ms. Russell has married several millionaires who have all Read More

Insignificance

Actors: Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Will Sampson

Synopsis: Using four famous but unnamed individuals to symbolize a notorious era in American politics, as well as to explore the nature of despair, director Nicolas Roeg has created an intriguing drama. Based on a play by Terry Johnson, the story begins with the blond Theresa Russell as a sex-goddess Read More

The Razor's Edge

Actors: Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach

Synopsis: In this Bill Murray-driven remake of the 1946 Tyrone Power film, Murray plays the lead, Larry Darrel, a World War I survivor who takes off on a foreign trek to discover the meaning of his life. Apparently Murray said he'd film Ghostbusters only if Columbia would let him do Razor's Edge. ~ All Read More

Eureka

Actors: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: A reclusive, unhappy gold magnate finds his isolated tropical paradise threatened by the intrusion of organized criminals in director Nicolas Roeg's convoluted, arty drama. Gene Hackman stars as Jack McCann, a one-time gold prospector who his parlayed the discovery of a rich deposit in the Read More

Bad Timing

Actors: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: Psychiatrist Alex (Art Garfunkel) becomes sexually obsessed with Milena (Theresa Russell), a woman whom he meets at a party. The pair become involved in an intense and mutually destructive love affair. The drama unfolds in a series of flashbacks, as Alex tells his story to police Inspector Netusil Read More

Blind Ambition

Actors: Martin Sheen, Theresa Russell, Michael Callan, Lonny Chapman, William Daniels

Synopsis: The 8-hour TV miniseries Blind Ambition was originally telecast May 20 through 23, 1979. This 105-minute feature-film version, prepared in 1982, seems a bit rushed at times, but overall does a credible and coherent job of storytelling. Based on John Dean's book Blind Ambition, with elements of Read More

Straight Time

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: Paroled criminal Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) is compelled to withstand the calculated cruelties of slimy parole officer Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh). The more Max tries to go straight, the more he is defeated by circumstance or hectored by the sadistic Frank. It becomes clear after a while that Read More

The Last Tycoon

Actors: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and Read More