Rena Riffel

Acting

Rena Riffel

Born

1969-03-05 (57)

Place of birth

Inglewood, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Rena Riffel (born March 5, 1969) is an American actress, singer, dancer, model, writer, producer, and director. She is known for her supporting roles in films such as Showgirls, Striptease, and Mulholland Drive.

Known for

Married... with Children poster
7.7

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

Married... with Children

1987

The Pretender poster
7.4

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.

The Pretender

1996

Mulholland Drive poster
7.8

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Mulholland Drive

2001

Clueless poster
6.4

CLUELESS is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season. The show then spent its last two seasons on UPN ending on May 25, 1999.

Clueless

1996

Striptease poster
5.6

Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.

Striptease

1996

Showgirls poster
5.6

Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.

Showgirls

1995

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 12 titles

Summoned poster
4.2

Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.

Summoned

2013

Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven poster
3.7

Penny Slot, a stripper from Las Vegas, tries to become a star dancer on a dance television show.

Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven

2011

Spreading Darkness poster
4.5

Stu Undercoffler is a corrupt CEO whose drive for power has led him to make some highly unethical choices. Once Stu's self-serving decisions have begun to spread darkness through the world, there's no stopping it. After losing his wife, Stu begins to have a crisis of conscience but starts to believe he is being stalked and has been hallucinating. Is he losing his mind or have his former victims come back to wreck havoc on him?

Spreading Darkness

2017

The Trouble with Barry poster
2.7

Barry Montenegro, a ruthless, cynical, politically incorrect, and quite possibly sociopathic Hollywood actor becomes the prime suspect when a series of brutal murders rocks his latest production.

The Trouble with Barry

2013

Emmanuelle Through Time: Sex, Chocolate & Emmanuelle poster
7.2

Join the sexy crew of the airship Emmanuel for a journey beyond space and time. This time, Emmanuelle visits erotic milf Willa Wanker and her adult toy factory. There, beautiful women have become guinea pigs for new products, and intoxicated by the dazzling pleasure. Will Emmanuelle become addicted and fall into Willa's trap of lust?

Emmanuelle Through Time: Sex, Chocolate & Emmanuelle

2012

Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Skin City poster
5.1

Emmanuelle arrives in Las Vegas where she is abducted and asked by the military to help them with a device that allows people to travel to alternate realities.

Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Skin City

2011

Emmanuelle Through Time: Rod Steele 0014 & Naked Agent 0069 poster
3.7

Emmanuelle and her crew run into secret agent 0014, who convinces them to tag along on his next mission to save the world.

Emmanuelle Through Time: Rod Steele 0014 & Naked Agent 0069

2012

Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Forbidden Pleasures poster
3.8

Emmanuelle's final erotic adventure through space and time!

Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Forbidden Pleasures

2012

Astrid's Self Portrait poster
NR

A behind-the-scenes look at Astrid von Star's unfinished, untitled, avant-garde masterpiece which reveals her many kept secrets of love and loss. Once a top Hollywood film critic, Astrid (Rena Riffel) rebels to create a self-portrait on digital media with the help of her only surviving ex-husband (Greg Heath). She expresses her bohemian spirit while her psyche unravels in front of the camera.

Astrid's Self Portrait

2016

My Wife Is at Home poster
NR

A woman who lives in Echo Park area of Los Angeles experiences something strange after she becomes obsessed with the abandoned house next door.

My Wife Is at Home

2017

Trasharella Ultra Vixen poster
2.3

A retro-grindhouse film. Starlets fight off the Hollywood Vampire. Directed by Rena Riffel

Trasharella Ultra Vixen

2011

Exit to Hell poster
3.3

A gang war between a gang and the mafia escalates and claims numerous victims on both sides.

Exit to Hell

2013

2000s · 12 titles

Mulholland Drive poster
7.8

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Mulholland Drive

2001

Caligula's Spawn - Part 1 poster
3.5

The beautiful and dangerous lesbian slave trader Druscilla practices all the customs of Ancient Rome - everything in Excess. But even excess can have its limits and the punishments can be very severe if she crosses the line and risks falling out of favor.

Caligula's Spawn - Part 1

2009

Dark Reel poster
3.6

Murder, mystery and mayhem as B movie fan, Adam Waltz, wins Walk on Role in a film Featuring Scream Queen, Cassie Blue. Thinking his luck had changed for the better he steps into chaos with a killer loose and no one on the production safe.

Dark Reel

2008

No Escape poster
6.0

During WWII two sisters have stolen some emeralds from the lesbian Nazi SS officer (Rena Riffel) and now are on the run. One gets captured by her and gets tortured with electrified Freddy Krueger glove into revealing the location of the gems. The other escapes to her cousin's house, but her cousin who isn't that pleased with her appearance and blackmails the girl into becoming her personal slave in return for not turning her over to the SS.

No Escape

2008

Bound Cargo poster
3.1

Three girls are on the run from a group of disbanded soldiers. Nowhere to go they come across a lonely widow to seek refuge. Risking her life to save the young women the widow only demands erotic pleasure in exchange.

Bound Cargo

2003

One, Two, Many poster
3.9

A modern-day romance that follows one man's quest to find the girl of his dreams: one who wants to do it with him and another girl.

One, Two, Many

2008

Wild Roomies poster
4.0

After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.

Wild Roomies

2004

Shark in a Bottle poster
7.1

Guy Normal (probably not his real name) is clumsy, has amnesia, and has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous man who arranges killings for hire. The Arranger trains Guy to be a killer (and there's evidence that Guy perpetrated a mass murder in an Arizona post office), then sends him to do various jobs. Although Guy bumbles, the jobs get done. But Guy rebels against this life, tries to reconstruct his past, and falls in love with the Arranger's mistress (who also has no place else to go). When Guy becomes expendable, his days seem numbered. Can Guy outsmart the mastermind and the highly skilled assassins sent to kill him?

Shark in a Bottle

2000

Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema poster
4.5

Unzips america’s obsession with sex and takes us on a steamy trip through the milesones of erotic cinema. Discover how movies have reflected our changing attitudes towards sex over the decades, and how they inspire our own sexual liberation.

Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema

2009

Trasharella poster
3.0

Rena Riffel (Showgirls/Mulholland Drive) stars in her directorial debut, the B Movie Musical Retro Satire, Trasharella. Transforming into a recycling trashy super hero, it is up to Trasharella to kill the Hollywood Vampire.

Trasharella

2009

Caligula's Spawn - Part 2 poster
4.3

Druscilla and Baudica continue to take great risks for what they hope will be great rewards in their slave trading business. Choosing the daughter of a German noble family proves to have disastrous consequences as they engage in satisfying their lesbian desires with the ultimate but dangerous game of submission, training women and teens to become their docile submissive dolls to their erotic fantasies and sexual demands.

Caligula's Spawn - Part 2

2009

Between Christmas and New Year's poster
NR

At his wit's end, Jimmy gives his life eight hours to collect more positive occurrences than negative ones or he'll end it all. He works as a superintendent in an old Hollywood apartment complex and spends this holiday afternoon dealing with the eccentric tenants, which are all along for the ride.

Between Christmas and New Year's

2000

1990s · 13 titles

Striptease poster
5.6

Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.

Striptease

1996

Showgirls poster
5.6

Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.

Showgirls

1995

Candyman: Day of the Dead poster
4.6

As the Day of the Dead celebration approaches the barrio of East Los Angeles, Caroline is challenged to control the horrifying legend of her ancestor, the "Candyman".

Candyman: Day of the Dead

1999

Breast Men poster
5.3

We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, they split up and follow different paths. One becomes the surgeon of the everyday woman while the other's career freefalls and has to settle with strippers and actresses. The film covers their history and their inventions, from the sixties until today.

Breast Men

1997

Undercover poster
5.3

A female cop goes undercover in a high price whorehouse to find a murderer and discovers she likes the assignment more than she should.

Undercover

1995

Gunmen poster
5.0

A New York DEA agent springs an outlaw from jail to lead him to stolen money in South America.

Gunmen

1993

Dark Confessions poster
4.9

Two beautiful young women on vacation looking for fun. Two dirty cops looking for easy prey. One human auction where the rich, dominant and powerful bid for slaves to satisfy all sexual desires including lesbian submission. They have been located, framed and convinced to confess to a crime they did not commit or face a lifetime in a prison of women...now their innocence will be sold to the highest bidder.

Dark Confessions

1998

MP Da Last Don poster
4.4

Nino never wanted the life of a gangster, but when his father, Don Corleone is gunned down in the street, he must answer the call for revenge. Now Nino is Da Last Don and the family business is in his hands...a world of deceit, back room deals and crooked cops that threatens to destroy everything Nino loves.

MP Da Last Don

1998

The Pornographer poster
4.9

A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.

The Pornographer

1999

Smiling Fish & Goat On Fire poster
5.2

Two brothers share a house in LA's Fairfax district: Tony's a feckless actor, Chris is an accountant. Both are in relationships on rocky ground. As these emotions swirl, Tony meets his US Postal Service letter carrier, a single mom named Kathy who's come to LA from Wyoming with her daughter, a budding actress. Chris meets Anna, an Italian beauty working in the States for a few months wrangling animals on movie sets. Chris also befriends Clive, an aging and crusty man whose longing for his recently-deceased wife is a portrait of true love. Can Clive's example help Chris sort out his love life, and can Tony grow up enough to see the possibilities with Kathy and her daughter?

Smiling Fish & Goat On Fire

1999

Singapore Sling poster
3.0

In Singapore, con artist Michelle marries the corrupt Dr. Chance to avoid prison, then swindles him and escapes the country. She returns to Fort Worth to hide out with the oil tycoon she left behind, but his current girlfriend has other ideas. Then Dr. Chance sees the Texas oil business as a fine place for his investment dollars.

Singapore Sling

1999

Maximum Justice poster
7.0

A man infiltrates the Los Angeles underworld, which is controlled by mobsters who will stop at nothing to exploit the weak and overpower the strong.

Maximum Justice

1998

Art Deco Detective poster
6.0

While investigating the murder of a movie star, a detective finds that he himself is being set up for the crime.

Art Deco Detective

1994

Undated · 4 titles

Series credits

Married... with Children poster
7.7

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

Married... with Children

1987

The Pretender poster
7.4

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.

The Pretender

1996

Clueless poster
6.4

CLUELESS is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season. The show then spent its last two seasons on UPN ending on May 25, 1999.

Clueless

1996

Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew poster
3.7

Dr. Drew Pinsky uses his years of experience in the mental health and addiction treatment field to help stars face their substance use and get on the road to recovery.

Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew

2008

Dante's Cove poster
5.6

A young gay couple must overcome dark, mystical forces conspiring against them, starting with a vengeful 19th century witch and her cheating warlock fiance.

Dante's Cove

2005

Strip Mall poster
4.2

Tammi Tyler is an ex-child actress who, at 12, murdered her adult co-star after eating a PCP laced cupcake. Now, as an adult, Tammi works as a waitress at the Funky Fox, a bar located in the Plaza del Toro. In the first episode, Tammi marries the owner of Starbrite Cleaners, Harvey Krudup, who she thought was worth millions, but realized that Starbrite's lone location was at the Plaza. For the rest of the show's run, Tammi tries to end her marriage.

Strip Mall

2000

Land's End poster
7.0

Mike Land is a disgruntled ex-Los Angeles police officer who moves to a Mexican resort to work as a private investigator. With beautiful scenery as a backdrop, attractive Courtney is his boss and he occasionally enlists his buddies Willis and Dave in his cases.

Land's End

1995

Behind the camera

Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven poster
3.7

Penny Slot, a stripper from Las Vegas, tries to become a star dancer on a dance television show.

Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven

2011

Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven poster
3.7

Penny Slot, a stripper from Las Vegas, tries to become a star dancer on a dance television show.

Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven

2011

Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven poster
3.7

Penny Slot, a stripper from Las Vegas, tries to become a star dancer on a dance television show.

Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven

2011

Trasharella poster
3.0

Rena Riffel (Showgirls/Mulholland Drive) stars in her directorial debut, the B Movie Musical Retro Satire, Trasharella. Transforming into a recycling trashy super hero, it is up to Trasharella to kill the Hollywood Vampire.

Trasharella

2009

Trasharella poster
3.0

Rena Riffel (Showgirls/Mulholland Drive) stars in her directorial debut, the B Movie Musical Retro Satire, Trasharella. Transforming into a recycling trashy super hero, it is up to Trasharella to kill the Hollywood Vampire.

Trasharella

2009

Trasharella poster
3.0

Rena Riffel (Showgirls/Mulholland Drive) stars in her directorial debut, the B Movie Musical Retro Satire, Trasharella. Transforming into a recycling trashy super hero, it is up to Trasharella to kill the Hollywood Vampire.

Trasharella

2009

Astrid's Self Portrait poster
NR

A behind-the-scenes look at Astrid von Star's unfinished, untitled, avant-garde masterpiece which reveals her many kept secrets of love and loss. Once a top Hollywood film critic, Astrid (Rena Riffel) rebels to create a self-portrait on digital media with the help of her only surviving ex-husband (Greg Heath). She expresses her bohemian spirit while her psyche unravels in front of the camera.

Astrid's Self Portrait

2016

Astrid's Self Portrait poster
NR

A behind-the-scenes look at Astrid von Star's unfinished, untitled, avant-garde masterpiece which reveals her many kept secrets of love and loss. Once a top Hollywood film critic, Astrid (Rena Riffel) rebels to create a self-portrait on digital media with the help of her only surviving ex-husband (Greg Heath). She expresses her bohemian spirit while her psyche unravels in front of the camera.

Astrid's Self Portrait

2016

My Wife Is at Home poster
NR

A woman who lives in Echo Park area of Los Angeles experiences something strange after she becomes obsessed with the abandoned house next door.

My Wife Is at Home

2017

My Wife Is at Home poster
NR

A woman who lives in Echo Park area of Los Angeles experiences something strange after she becomes obsessed with the abandoned house next door.

My Wife Is at Home

2017

Showgirls 2: The Cut poster
NR

Showgirls 2: The Cut is a satirical parody project creating a story that expanded the character she played in the classic 90's film, "Showgirls", weaving a cautionary tale of ambition and danger while traveling down the path of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Her work aimed to thank and entertain the many fans and critics of her roles in David Lynch's, "Mulholland Dr." and Verhoeven's, "Showgirls"

Showgirls 2: The Cut

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Trasharella Ultra Vixen poster
2.3

A retro-grindhouse film. Starlets fight off the Hollywood Vampire. Directed by Rena Riffel

Trasharella Ultra Vixen

2011

Trasharella Ultra Vixen poster
2.3

A retro-grindhouse film. Starlets fight off the Hollywood Vampire. Directed by Rena Riffel

Trasharella Ultra Vixen

2011

Trasharella Ultra Vixen poster
2.3

A retro-grindhouse film. Starlets fight off the Hollywood Vampire. Directed by Rena Riffel

Trasharella Ultra Vixen

2011