Carmen Russo

Acting

Carmen Russo

Born

1959-10-03 (67)

Place of birth

Genoa, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Carmen Russo (born Carmela Carolina Fernanda Russo on October 3, 1959) is an Italian dancer, actress, television personality and singer. Russo started her career as a model in the mid 1970s participating in several beauty contests in Italy. She first came to the public's attention for her roles in the commedia erotica all'italiana, (sex comedy) genre, like in the movies Mia moglie torna a scuola, Giovani, belle... probabilmente ricche and Paulo Roberto Cotechiño, centravanti di sfondamento. She subsequently established herself as a television star in the 1980s with the variety shows Drive In, Risatissima and Grand Hotel. In 2003 and 2006 she also participated in the Italian and Spanish versi…

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 1 titles

1980s · 15 titles

City of Women poster
7.0

The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.

City of Women

1980

My Wife Goes Back to School poster
4.6

Aristide Buratti is a wealthy grocer married to attractive Valentina. Although they seem to have a happy marriage, Valentina feels herself culturally inferior because she is a high school dropout. Despite her husband's objections, she enrolls at a private boarding school.

My Wife Goes Back to School

1981

Patrick Still Lives poster
5.5

A group of strangers are summoned to the secluded home of Patrick, a young man rendered comatose after a freak accident, but soon find themselves falling victim to Patrick's mysterious psychic powers and murderous rage.

Patrick Still Lives

1980

Lady Football poster
5.5

It is the story of the brilliant football player Cotechiño, hired by the Napoli team as a centre-forward. Too bad that his professional career will be strongly influenced by the frequent absence of his fiancée, for which he feels an inexplicable, almost obsessive jealousy. That's why he hires a plumber very similar to him to keep an eye on his beloved, but that won't be enough when Cotechiño is kidnapped.

Lady Football

1983

Girls Will Be Girls poster
4.1

A group of employees, on a winter vacation, rather than skiing, spend their time in an attempt to impress the beautiful Angela and a sexy servant girl.

Girls Will Be Girls

1980

Ski Mistress poster
4.6

Celia Berni is facing the possibility of receiving an inheritance and is forced pretend to be a virtue. But unfortunately her plans may be thwarted by zealous performer, who tries to expose her in any way.

Ski Mistress

1981

Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich poster
4.4

Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.

Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich

1982

The Porno Killers poster
4.3

An international drugs deal goes wrong, and two New York hit-women are dispatched to Rome, Italy, to get the missing pay money. Even before departure the girls have a poolside hot party with two young men, and when they get to their hotel in Rome, they share a shower and an intimate moment together. At the beach, they make eye contact with a pair of Italian gigolos, then use judo and wrestling holds to dominate them - and impose their feminist supremacy. Finally, they will get close to the money, but their mission is made easier as the top men are fighting each other for it.

The Porno Killers

1980

The Odd Squad poster
5.6

Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!

The Odd Squad

1982

Quella peste di Pierina poster
3.9

No synopsis available yet.

Quella peste di Pierina

1982

Good Like Bread poster
4.7

Lisetta (Carmen Russo) a high-priced call-girl, that entertained her eccentric clients in her apartment and in empty theaters over opera! She met Filippo (Saverio Marconi), a bumbling astronomer , and after a series of mishaps, they got married.

Good Like Bread

1982

Erotic Tales poster
3.2

Three women are secretly plush prostitutes. They are successively called by a mysterious person to have sex with three different men and assuage their weird fantasies.

Erotic Tales

1980

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer poster
5.4

Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports Lazio.

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer

1983

Cuando calienta el sol... vamos a la playa poster
7.0

Stefano is a young mechanic who would like to become a discreet boxer by faithfully following the advice of his wise uncle: but in his life Giulia appears, a good girl who happens to be present at a meeting of our hero who immediately falls in love with her

Cuando calienta el sol... vamos a la playa

1982

I'll Break Your Face, Baby! poster
4.3

A clumsy investigator works in society with his dog and investigates a series of murders.

I'll Break Your Face, Baby!

1982

1970s · 9 titles

The Nurse in the Military Madhouse poster
5.2

A story about a singer/showgirl who poses as a nurse to recover some stolen paintings, which for some reason are hidden in a military insane asylum.

The Nurse in the Military Madhouse

1979

Ring of Darkness poster
4.8

Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage daughter, Daria, starts showing the evil influence of dear old Dad. Convinced that she can stop the devil's power on earth, Carlotta calls upon an exorcist for help.

Ring of Darkness

1979

Here We for Example... poster
5.4

Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.

Here We for Example...

1977

Mark Shoots First poster
6.6

Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".

Mark Shoots First

1975

What's Your Sign? poster
5.4

Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.

What's Your Sign?

1975

I viaggiatori della sera poster
5.7

A famous radio announcer is being retired at the top of his career and in full professional maturity. But for him and his wife life is not over now, he has more plans.

I viaggiatori della sera

1979

Riavanti… Marsch! poster
4.4

Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile.

Riavanti… Marsch!

1979

Nerone poster
4.8

Parody of real life events of the Roman emperor Nero.

Nerone

1977

Liquirizia poster
4.9

Two groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants - decide to perform a show to celebrate the last day of school.

Liquirizia

1979

Series credits

Ciao Darwin poster
7.9

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

Ciao Darwin

1998

Ciao Darwin poster
7.9

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

Ciao Darwin

1998

Ciao Darwin poster
7.9

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

Ciao Darwin

1998

Domenica In poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Domenica In

1976

Foodish poster
8.5

Food show con Joe Bastianich

Foodish

2025

No artwork available
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Buona Domenica

1985

You Jane, Me Tarzan poster
9.0

The drama four-episode musical marked the return to Rai militancy after years of Fininvest for Carmen Russo and the comic duo Franco and Ciccio . The program also included pure variety segments, animated inserts and ballets.

You Jane, Me Tarzan

1989

Drive In poster
8.0

Drive In is an Italian television variety show, broadcast by Italia 1 between 1983 and 1989. It was referred as the most innovative and popular Italian television show of the 80s.

Drive In

1983

Stasera niente di nuovo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stasera niente di nuovo

1981