Rene Russo
ABOUT RENE RUSSO
Actress who paired up with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon and Ransom. Her other film credits include Get Shorty , Nightcrawler, Tin Cup, In the Line of Fire, and The Thomas Crown Affair.
She worked in an eyeglass factory and as a movie cashier after high school.
She was discovered at a Rolling Stones concert when she was 18.
She married Dan Gilroy in 1992, and their daughter Rose was born in August 1993.
She plays Karen Flores, the ex-wife of Danny DeVito 's Martin Weir, in the 1995 crime/comedy Get Shorty.
