Acting

Karen Russell

Born April 12, 1962 · Erie, Pennsylvania, USA (age 64)

Karen Russell was a buxom, shapely, and voluptuous brunette actress and dancer who popped up with pleasing regularity in a handful of entertainingly trashy low-budget straight-to-video exploitation pictures made throughout the 1980's and 1990's. Karen made a memorable film debut as nasty street gang moll Chula in the brutal urban action opus "Tenement." She was quite funny and appealing as the dit…

Known For

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy · 1990

MovieAdventureComedy

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Mobsters

Mobsters · 1991

MovieActionCrime

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...

Bugsy

MovieCrimeDrama

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

Havana

MovieDramaRomance

During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wife of a Communist revolutionary.

Phoenix the Warrior

Phoenix the Warrior · 1988

Phoenix the Warrior

MovieActionFantasy

In a post-apocalyptic world, women warriors battle each other from junkyards to gravel pits as they determine the fate of the entire world.

Modern Girls

Modern Girls · 1986

MovieComedyRomance

Margo, Kelly, and CeCe have three things in common: they're roommates, they're gorgeous, and they're hooked on the glamour and excitement of L.A.'s rock and roll nightlife. When they get mixed up with a rock star, an arrogant ex-boyfriend, a pseudo-sadist, and the nicest nerd in the City of Angels, it's a full night to say the least!

The Banker

The Banker · 1989

MovieCrimeThriller

High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.

Dead Certain

Dead Certain · 1991

MovieMysteryDrama

A detective becomes obsessed with bringing a man to justice, whom he is sure is a serial killer and the murderer of a woman with which both men were involved. However, the supposed killer may be as much a victim as the murdered people.

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Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy · 1990

MovieAdventureComedy

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Dancer

Mobsters

Mobsters · 1991

MovieActionCrime

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...

Showgirl

Bugsy

MovieCrimeDrama

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

Dancer

Havana

MovieDramaRomance

During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wife of a Communist revolutionary.

Dancer #2

Phoenix the Warrior

Phoenix the Warrior · 1988

Phoenix the Warrior

MovieActionFantasy

In a post-apocalyptic world, women warriors battle each other from junkyards to gravel pits as they determine the fate of the entire world.

Mohawk

Modern Girls

Modern Girls · 1986

MovieComedyRomance

Margo, Kelly, and CeCe have three things in common: they're roommates, they're gorgeous, and they're hooked on the glamour and excitement of L.A.'s rock and roll nightlife. When they get mixed up with a rock star, an arrogant ex-boyfriend, a pseudo-sadist, and the nicest nerd in the City of Angels, it's a full night to say the least!

Music Video Dancer

The Banker

The Banker · 1989

MovieCrimeThriller

High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.

Fran

Dead Certain

Dead Certain · 1991

MovieMysteryDrama

A detective becomes obsessed with bringing a man to justice, whom he is sure is a serial killer and the murderer of a woman with which both men were involved. However, the supposed killer may be as much a victim as the murdered people.

Isabella

Tenement

Tenement · 1985

MovieActionThriller

A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.

Chula

Vice Academy

Vice Academy · 1989

MovieActionComedy

A band of female police cadets train to join the Hollywood vice squad. The toothsome rookies are assigned to infiltrate a kiddy porn operation, then must go undercover and join a prostitution ring run by Queen Bee.

Shawnee

The Devil You Know

The Devil You Know · 2022

The Devil You Know

MovieThrillerDrama

Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may have been involved in a horrific crime, Marcus grapples with the limits of brotherhood and loyalty. He and his family, increasingly weary of the justice system’s failings, end up in the crosshairs of a seasoned but jaded detective.

Announcer (voice)

Memorial Valley Massacre

Memorial Valley Massacre · 1988

Memorial Valley Massacre

MovieHorrorThriller

Campers on a holiday are terrorized by an axe-wielding maniac.

Emily (as Dusty Woods)

Dr. Alien

Dr. Alien · 1989

MovieComedyScience Fiction

When the mysterious and sexy Ms. Xenobia takes over the biology class at the local college, the dating life of supergeek Wesley Littlejohn takes a serious turn. Littlejohn agrees to be a lab rat for the professor's unusual vitamin research study. Now, thanks to some out-of-this-world supplements, he's been transformed into the campus stud. But Xenobia has ulterior extraterrestrial motives in this sci-fi sex comedy.

Coed #2

Easy Wheels

Easy Wheels · 1989

MovieActionComedy

A group of leather-clad bikers are on the trail of the female bikers who are stealing babies all over the state and selling them on the black market.

Candy

Murder Weapon

Murder Weapon · 1989

MovieHorrorThriller

Two mobster daughters leave a sanitarium, host a party inviting ex-boyfriends, who then start disappearing mysteriously.

Amy

Hell High

Hell High · 1989

A teacher still haunted by the death of two teens that she accidentally caused as a young girl goes berserk when four teens start harassing her and then attack her in her home.

Teen Girl

B-Movie Queens Revealed

B-Movie Queens Revealed · 1993

B-Movie Queens Revealed

MovieDocumentary

Interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of the first three Vice Academy films.

Shawnee (archive footage)

Shock 'Em Dead

Shock 'Em Dead · 1991

MovieMusicHorror

Martin is a total loser, who nobody cares for. When he fails to get a position as guitar player in Lindsay's band and loses his job on the way, he makes a deal with a Voodoo priestess. She promises him the fulfillment of all his dreams if he swears obedience to her. He becomes a rock star and has many women - but to stay alive, he has to kill other people.

Michelle

The Girl I Want

The Girl I Want · 1990

The Girl I Want

A brainy girl turns bimbo and a football star turns brainy in order to attract each other's attention, only to discover that they liked each other the way they were in the first place.

Lisa

Hellbent

Hellbent · 1988

MovieHorrorDrama

A bandleader whose career is nosediving makes a deal with the owner of a bar to sell his soul for success.

Topless Woman

Mob Boss

Mob Boss · 1990

MovieComedyCrime

A nerd becomes the head of his father's crime family.

Mary

Blood Nasty

Blood Nasty · 1989

Roy is killed by a couple of jewel thieves and then brought back to life and possessed by deceased serial killer "Blade". He returns home and his mother is not very happy to see him as she wants to collect his life insurance policy. Soon, things get out of hand as mom is trying to make sure nobody knows that Roy has "come back" and Blade is trying to let everybody know that he has "come back".

Mona

American Rampage

American Rampage · 1989

American Rampage

MovieActionThriller

Ex-San Francisco vice cop Samantha Roarke and Hollywood homicide detective Ryan Hayes team up to investigate an international drug cartel in Los Angeles, leading them to an ex-CIA operative turned drug kingpin who's organizing a heroin distribution center in the city.

Hooker #1

Lethal Games

Lethal Games · 1991

MovieThrillerAction

A criminal mob hires a gang of thugs to subdue a small urban community, but the community decides to fight back.

Coco

Dream On

Dream On · 1990

The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.

Woman #1