Theresa Russell

Theresa Russell is an American actor who made her film debut in Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon in 1976. Her early work included Straight Time before a series of collaborations with Nicolas Roeg, notably Bad Timing, Eureka and Insignificance, established her presence in formally adventurous cinema.

Her roles also include the thriller Black Widow, Ken Russell's Whore and Steven Soderbergh's Kafka. Later appearances range from Wild Things and The Believer to Spider-Man 3 and the television production Empire Falls. Her career crosses independent and commercial filmmaking, with several of her defining performances rooted in the experimental edge of British cinema.