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Keri Russell (born March 23, 1976Keri Russell is a Golden Globe Award winning American actress and dancer, most known for playing the title role on the television series . She was born in Fountain Valley, California to David Russell and Stephanie Stephens, and grew up in Mesa, Arizona and Denver, Colorado. She currently resides in Manhattan.

variety show on the Disney Channel. She was on the show from 1991 to 1993, and in the last year starred with future pop-stars Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake.

Several appearances on film and TV followed, with one of her most significant pre-. However, it was a fairly stereotypical TV movie, with melodramatic overtones. She had a role in the shortlived soap opera series the same year. Russell also appeared in Jon Bon Jovi's music video "Always" with Jack Noseworthy.

From 1998 to 2002, Russel starred as the title character in . Russell's long and curly hair was one of her character's defining characteristics, and a drastic hair change at the beginning of the show's second season was considered to be the cause of a significant drop in the show's ratings. This reportedly led to a new policy at The WB where major changes in appearance by on-screen talent must be approved by the network.

When ended, Russell took a break from acting and even considered quitting the profession. Her next role was as part of the Mel Gibson-led bio-pic in 2002, where she played the wife of an American serviceman. She moved to New York City and took about two years to avoid the business of Hollywood, spending time with friends.

The actress made her Broadway stage debut in 2004, appearing with Jeremy Piven, Andrew McCarthy, and Ashlie Atkinson in Neil LaBute's . In 2005 she returned to television and film, first with an appearance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie , where she appeared alongside Kevin Costner and Joan Allen. She will be in the mid-year miniseries , Russell declined invitations to be part of the show. In a seminar at the Museum of Television and Radio, Abrams said, "I've asked Keri if she would ever do it, and I usually get this, sort of like, giggle—and then she hangs up." In 2005, he asked her to join the cast of , and she accepted. The film is due for release in 2006.

Russell's latest movie is Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story, titled Rohtenburg for its German release. She plays Katie Armstrong, a grad student who writes a thesis paper on an infamous cannibal murder case. In the process, she becomes obsessed with the dark side and begins to lose herself. The film opens in Germany on March 9, 2006.