10 Best Movies and TV Shows

The Taylor Russell Movies and TV shows show how she has exploded recently to become one of Hollywood’s top go-to young stars. Russell is a Canadian actress who began her entertainment career as a ballet dancer and later as a painter. She moved on to try her hand at music and eventually became an actor. Her first role came in 2012, when she was 18, for the CW medical drama Emily Owens, MD After a live TV film and one-shot TV appearances, she finally broke out in 2018.

In 2018, Russell picked up the finest leading role of her career by playing Judy Robinson in the Netflix reboot of Lost in space. This was her big break, but she set her sights further on movies and Took her first major role there with the 2019 horror movie escape fameWhich was a box-office success and showed that Russell could lead the way in a successful movie. Things got even better in 2022 with the critically acclaimed Bones and allAnd the future looks bright for the young Hollywood star.

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Down A Dark Hall (2018)

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As with many young stars getting their start in Hollywood, there are always smaller horror movies for them to cut their teeth on. In 2018, one year after getting the small role in Before I fall, Taylor Russell starred in Down a dark hall. The horror movie also featured AnnaSophia Robb as Keith Gordy, a young girl sent to a boarding school due to her unruly behavior. Then she meets the headmistress (Uma Thurman) and the only other four students at the school, all with similar behavioral problems.

Taylor Russell plays Ashley, one of the other four teenage girls at the boarding school. Each of the girls begins to exhibit strange and unknown tendencies, and for Ashley it creates a beautiful poetry that remains deeply uncomfortable. It is a ghost/demonic possession horror movie and only received mixed reviews from critics, with a 48% Rotten Tomatoes score, praised for its style but criticized for its lack of scares.

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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

Taylor Russell plays Zoe Davis

As one of only two survivors in the first escape fame In the movie, Taylor Russell returns for the sequel as Maya, and this time, the plot takes a slightly different turn. The first film saw Maya and the other victims not understanding why this was happening to them until it was too late, and all but two were dead. however, with Escape Room: Tournament of ChampionsMaya and Ben (Logan Miller) know what’s going on And then set out to find the next site to take revenge and expose the people behind it.

This was Russell’s first sequel, and as with many sequels, it didn’t quite live up to the original. The sequel only made $66 million worldwide, more than half of the first movie’s box office take. With a slightly higher budget of $15 million, it was still a success (via Box Office Mojo). The critical reception was identical, with a 51% Rotten Tomatoes score. Critics said the new convoluted rules of the game were too confusing at times, but they still praised the acting, specifically Russell’s performance as Zoe.

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Before I Fall (2017)

Taylor Russell plays Ashley

One of the first major movies that Taylor Russell ever appeared in was the 2017 teen drama film Before I fall. Based on the novel of the same name by Lauren Oliver, the film is about A teenage girl named Samantha Kingston who needs to relive the day she died Every day for a week to understand what happened to you. Every day, she takes new actions, some of which surprise her family and friends, and she tries to understand what is happening. Zoey Deutch stars as Samantha.

As for Taylor Russell, she has a small role in the movie as Ashley, and she has very little to do with the story. Before I fallA Time Loop movie, earned mixed reviews, with a 64% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and most of the praise going to Deutch’s acting. It was also a small box office success, making $18.9 million on a $5 million budget (via Box Office Mojo). Although it was a small role for Russell, it was a good start that would lead to better things in the following years.

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Escape Room (2019)

Taylor Russell plays Zoe Davis

At the beginning of her career, Taylor Russell appeared in several smaller movies, however escape fame Offered something much bigger for the actress. This horror movie is based on the popular escape rooms popping up around the world, but with the twist that not escaping means death. It is similar to movies like SawBut it’s more of a teen horror movie than the torture pair of the groundbreaking franchise. What’s important here is that the movie was a massive success, and Russell was a star in the making.

Russell stars as Zoey Davis, a young college physics student invited to an escape room to win a $10,000 prize. However, they soon learn that they are there to die, and rich people bet on who will survive the longest. The movie made $155.7 million on a $9 million budget (via Box Office Mojo) and all but guaranteed a sequel, which arrived two years later. escape fame Only received mixed reviews, sitting at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, but that’s mostly normal for horror movies of this type.

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Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets (2021)

Taylor Russell plays Sophie

After appearing in some big movies viz The escape room And Words on bathroom wallsTaylor Russell to star in smaller indie comedy drama in 2021 called Dr. Bird’s advice for sad poets. Based on the novel by Evan Roskos, the film stars Lucas Jade Zumann as a teenager named James who is obsessed with Walt Whitman. His biggest problems are figuring out social relationships and dealing with family drama. There is also an imaginary therapist, Dr. Byrd, who is deaf.

While dealing with depression and anxiety issues, he starts to find hope with a new girlfriend named Sophie, played by Taylor Russell. The movie received mixed reviews, mostly because it played with James’ anxiety and depression issues with a little too much whimsy and flowery filmmaking tricks, but it was still enough to earn an 80% Rotten Tomatoes score and a 75% audience score .

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Falling Skies (2015)

Taylor Russell plays Evelyn

Taylor Russell started her career with some smaller roles, but in 2015, she earned an opportunity to take on a recurring guest role in the network science fiction series Falling Skies. The series aired on TNT, and the plot began six months after an alien invasion, in which the aliens had already defeated most of Earth’s military forces. This means that the series follows the fallout from this, with the remaining humans gathering resources and trying to find a way to survive and maybe fight back.

Taylor Russell stars as Evelyn, a character who appeared in the series’ fifth season. She was a survivor found by the Dingaan Botha in Statesboro. She was 19 at the time but was playing a 15-year-old in the series. Evelyn first appeared in “Find Your Warrior” and appeared in five full episodes, her last coming in “Reborn,” which means she was one of the last survivors who started a new society after defeating the aliens. The fifth season picked up a fresh rating of 70% rotten tomatoes.

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Lost in Space (2018-2021)

Taylor Russell plays Judy Robinson

After a few years of working on guest and one-shot TV appearances, Taylor Russell got her breakthrough role in her first lead with the 2018 Netflix sci-fi series Lost in space. It was a remake of the classic sci-fi TV show that originally aired in 1965 about a family that got lost in space and decided to try to find their way back home. in the series, Russell played part of the lost family, Judy RobinsonAnd she earned a lot of critical acclaim for her performance in the role.

The reboot series lasted for three seasons and 28 episodes on Netflix, earning high critical praise. While the first season only received a 68% Rotten Tomatoes rating, the second jumped to 85%, and the third and final season had a perfect 100% Fresh rating. Taylor Russell also earned a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Presentation in 2019, and the series earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

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Waves (2019)

Taylor Russell plays Emily Williams

After hitting it big with the horror movie escape fameTaylor Russell was able to take on even more prestigious roles in her career. This led to her appearing in the 2019 movie A24 waves. Unlike many A24 movies that fall into the camp of horror movies or experimental films, waves is a family drama written and directed by Trey Edward Schultz (It comes at night). Kelvin Harrison Jr. Star as Taylor, a high school senior who suffers an injury that hurts his wrestling career, sending him on a destructive path.

The movie then follows his family as they try to help him, while also dealing with the fallout of his bad decisions. Taylor Russell stars as his sister Emily, who has developed a relationship with a member of her brother’s wrestling team (Lucas Hedges). Critics have praised both Russell and Harrison for their performances, and the movie has a recent 84% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Russell also won the “We See You Award” from the 2019 African-American Film Critics Association Awards.

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Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)

Taylor Russell plays Maya Arnez

In 2020, Taylor Russell co-stars in the critically acclaimed drama Words on bathroom walls. The romantic drama star Charlie Plummer as a young man named Adam, who suffers a mental breakdown in class and receives a schizophrenia diagnosis. Directed by: Thor Freudenthal (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), the movie shows schizophrenia by having actors portray the “visitors” who talk to Adam in his head. They include a New Age hippie, a weak best friend and an overprotective bodyguard.

The main drama of the story is Adam trying to make it through life with the voices often offering him terrible advice. He meets a teen named Maya (Taylor Russell), an intelligent valedictorian who agrees to tutor him, and the two end up falling in love. However, when he realizes the side effects of his drugs are discomforting, he threatens everything good in his life by stopping them. The Movie has an 89% fresh rating on Rotten TomatoesWith a 94% audience rating.

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Bones and All (2022)

Taylor Russell plays Maren annually

When it comes to critical acclaim, the best Taylor Russell movie performance of her career came with 2022’s Cannibal Love Story Bones and all. In the story, Maren Yearly is a teenage cannibal whose father knows her urges and keeps relocating for her safety. However, once she turns 18, he leaves her and tells her to find her way in the world. Not knowing what to do, she sets out to find her birth mother but meets another “eater” on the way named Sally (Mark Rylance).

However, when she meets a younger cannibal named Lee (Timothee Chalamet), the two fall in love but realize that there can never be a happily ever after for people like them. The movie was a box office disappointment. However, it has an 82% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Ended up on many best-of lists for critics’ organizations. Taylor Russell Also won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival for her performance.