Rene Russo

Rene Marie Russo born February 17 1954 is an American actress and former model She began her career as a fashion model in the 1970s appearing on magazine covers such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan She made her film debut in the 1989 comedy Major League and rose to international prominence in a number of thrillers and action films throughout the 1990s including Lethal Weapon 3 1992 In the Line of Fire 1993 Outbreak 1995 Get Shorty 1995 Ransom 1996 Lethal Weapon 4 1998 and The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 After headlining the family comedy Yours Mine Ours 2005 Russo took a fiveyear break from acting She returned to the screen as Frigga the mother of the titular hero in the superhero film Thor 2011 a role she reprised in Thor The Dark World 2013 and Avengers Endgame 2019 In 2014 Russo starred in the acclaimed crime thriller Nightcrawler for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role She has also appeared in The Intern 2015 Just Getting Started 2017 and Velvet Buzzsaw 2019