Biography
Actress Keri Russell seemingly materialized from nowhere to star in the WB's popular teen-angst drama "Felicity" (1998-2002), but she had actually been a teen entertainer on stage and in Disney's star-making Orlando studios for years. She earned an Emmy Award and audiences loved her as the intelligent but naïve Felicity Porter, a sheltered suburban girl who moves to New York to attend college and is exposed to the coarser side of life, thanks …
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Career Milestones
| Raised in Dallas, Texas, Mesa, Arizona, and Denver, Colorado | ||
| Worked briefly as a model | ||
1991 | Appeared as a Mouseketeer on the "Mickey Mouse Club" (The Disney Channel) | |
1992 | Played a babysitter in her feature debut, "Honey, I Blew Up the Kid" | |
1994 | Landed regular role as Phoebe Walker on the short-lived CBS sitcom "Daddy's Girls" | |
1996 | Appeared in the feature "Eight Days a Week" | |
1996 | Co-starred on the NBC primetime serial "Malibu Road" | |
1996 | Starred opposite Stephen Collins in the NBC TV-movie "The Babysitter's Seduction" | |
1998 | Landed breakout role as a young woman who moves to New York City to be closer to her high school crush (Scott Speedman) on The WB drama "Felicity" | |
2000 | Cast in first feature lead in "Mad About Mambo" | |
2002 | Played a supporting role in "We Were Soldiers" | |
2004 | Made Broadway debut in Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig" opposite Jeremy Piven and Andrew McCarthy | |
2005 | Played Joan Allen's daughter in Mike Binder's "The Upside of Anger"; film screened at Sundance | |
2005 | Starred in the Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries "Into the West" (TNT) | |
2006 | Played an agent trainee under the watch of Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt in "Mission: Impossible 3" | |
2007 | Co-starred with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Freddie Highmore in the child-prodigy drama "August Rush" | |
2007 | Played a pregnant waitress in an unhappy marriage in the indie "Waitress"; helmed by Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered before the film's release | |
2008 | Co-starred with Adam Sandler in the family film "Bedtime Stories" | |
2010 | Cast as an environmental activist in the FOX comedy "Running Wilde" | |
2010 | Portrayed the wife of biotechnology executive John F. Crowley in "Extraordinary Measures" | |
Awards
1998 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama in Felicity |