Carmela Carolina Fernanda "Carmen" Russo 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, such as 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 version of the reality show Celebrity Survivor. She won in the Spanish version Supervivientes. During her career she released also three unsuccessful studio albums, Stars on Donna, Le canzoni di "Drive in..." and Una notte italiana and she was also chosen many times as a model for Playmen magazine during the 1980s.
Her daughter Maria was christened in the church of San Lorenzo Martire, in Formello (Lazio, Italy). Her godmother is Italian showgirl Valeria Marini.
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At 53, She gave birth to her first child with husband Enzo Paolo Turchi, a girl Maria on February 14th, 2013. Maria was born in a Rome hospital with a scheduled Caesarean Section and weighed 2,950 Kg.
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Miss World International 1977.
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Miss Teenage Italy 1972
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Chiringuito de Pepe
2014
TV Series
Francesca
Un fidanzato modello
2014
Short
Hostal Royal Manzanares
1996
TV Series
Io Jane, tu Tarzan
1989
TV Mini-Series
Jane
Un fantastico tragico venerdì
1986
TV Series
Hostess
Il tifoso, l'arbitro e il calciatore
1984
Manuela
Paulo Roberto Cotechiño centravanti di sfondamento
$17 Million
