Karen Russell

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 ditsy Shawnee in the crudely amusing "Vice Academy." Russell's other noteworthy parts include sweet, but troubled Mafia princess Amy in the gloriously outrageous "Murder Weapon," motorcycle mama Candy in "Easy Wheels," naive hooker Fran in the hugely enjoyable "The Banker," cop Francesco Quinn's bitter estranged ex-wife Isabella in "Murder Blues," and lusty groupie Michelle in "Shock 'Em Dead." Moreover, Karen appeared in small roles as a dancer in the mainstream features "Dick Tracy," "Havana," "Mobsters," and "Bugsy." After calling it a day as an actress in the mid-1990's, Russell went on to become a yoga teacher and founder of her own business Yoga Groove based in North Hollywood, California.
== Filmography ==
2003 The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (Video) 
Dancer (segment "Windowlicker")
1999 Aphex Twin: Windowlicker (Video short) 
Dancer
1996 Dream On (TV Series) 
Woman #1
- Hey Diddle Diddle (1996) ... Woman #1
1992 Up All Night (TV Series) 
Bowler #2
- Hawaiian Tropics: Make Me a Star/Neurotic Cabaret (1992) ... Bowler #2
1991 Bugsy 
Dancer (uncredited)
1991 Lethal Games 
Coco
1991 Mobsters 
Showgirl
1991 Murder Blues 
Isabella
1991 Shock 'Em Dead 
Michelle
1990/I Havana 
Dancer #2
1990 Wilding 
Cathy
1990 Mob Boss (Video) 
Mary
1990 The Girl I Want 
Lisa
1990 Dick Tracy 
Dancer
1989 Blood Nasty 
Mona
1989 Hell High 
Teen Girl
1989 The Banker 
Fran
1989 Murder Weapon 
Amy
1989 Easy Wheels 
Candy
1989 Memorial Valley Massacre 
Emily (as Dusty Woods)
1989 Vice Academy 
Shawnee
1989 Dr. Alien 
Coed #2
1989 American Rampage 
Hooker #1 (as Dusty Woods)
1988 Hellbent 
Topless Woman
1988 Phoenix the Warrior 
Mohawk (as Dusty Woods)
1986 Modern Girls 
Music Video Dancer
1985 Tenement 
Chula