Born in 1954, Rene Russo grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Burbank, a Los Angeles suburb. In 1972, the 17 year old was attending a Rolling Stones concert when she was approached by John Crosby, a scout and manager from International Creative Management. By her 30th birthday, demand for her began to dwindle, as it did for most models at that age. Her television series debut came in 1987 with a supporting part on the short. In 1989 she made her motion picture debut with the part of the lead characters girlfriend in the film Major League (1989). Most of her subsequent roles were that of girlfriends and supportive wives in several films until her breakthrough as an internal affairs detective in Lethal Weapon 3 (1992). Two of her performances within the last few years have gotten her recognition as both a major dramatic actress and a talented character actress. One was as the mother of a kidnapped son in Ransom (1996). The other was as the cartoon femme fatale foreign spy in The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000). Russo was praised for her performance of a role originally slated for Meryl Streep in 1992.