Danielle Rose Russell was born October 31, 1999, in New Jersey. Danielle fell in love with acting through regional theater originally, but after doing many commercials and print, she decided to pursue film and television. After doing her first film, A Walk Among the Tombstones, at the young age of thirteen, Danielle knew that acting was her passion. Shortly after completing her role opposite Liam Neeson and Dan Stevens, she booked Aloha, opposite Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone. Danielle can also be found in several other projects including Wonder, The Last Tycoon, Measure of a Man, The Originals, and Pandemic. In 2018 she portrayed Hope Mikealson in The Vampire Diaries spin off The Originals (2013) & Legacies (2018).
Danielle Rose Russell
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Welcome Back
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs – the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii – and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
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I always think it's really nice to see characters band together and fight for what they all believe in.
When 'Legacies' picked up, we never really saw the history between both of the twins.
What was important for 'Legacies' to actually be a successful show is that we had to introduce new mythology.
I had only ever done films that never had this huge fan base. I acted just to act. And so, coming into 'The Originals' and 'Legacies' and that fandom for the first time, I didn't know how to handle it at first, but I have a better grip on it now.
I did a lot of screaming in 'The Originals,' and I hurt my voice so badly that I said, 'I can't scream if you want me to be able to work for, like, the next three days.' So, what I usually do is that I scream once in the season, and we'll just use that scream, all throughout, or extend it, or do whatever we need to do.
'Legacies' is its own show, and it takes on a younger twist to the supernatural world.
I love to cook; I love to bake. It's, like, my favorite thing besides acting.
I started really working in, like, 2014, so I was 13, 14 years old.
As someone who watched 'The Vampire Diaries' when I was 10 or 11, getting to be Miss Mystic Falls was very surreal for me.
I'm always studying actors and movies. You can never not do your homework.
I hadn't seen anything of 'The Originals' until I was down to the end for the role and I watched the whole fourth season, and then, when I got it, I did my proper homework.
I really enjoy doing stunts, especially. I had never done any stunt work, ever, in my life before, and in our first episode of 'Legacies,' I was doing a bunch.
I think there's a real sex appeal to vampires. They're very sexy.
I have a very normal social group that I really feed off of. They ground me. They're super supportive.
As an actor, I love to play a good crying scene.