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Jillian Russell is a multifaceted artist (actress-singer-songwriter-dancer). She started her career in dance at the age of four. Since then, she has performed with Mariah Carey, LL Cool J, Martina McBride, 98 Degrees and Mary J. Blige.By the time she was a teenager, she received numerous honors, including Massachusetts’ “Dancer of the Year.†She earned a competitive dance scholarship from Marymount Manhattan College (where she earned a bachelors of arts degree) and a dance scholarship from Broadway Dance Center, both in New York City. She is adept in classical ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, modern, swing, salsa, ballroom, hip hop and samba dance styles. She has sung the national anthem for the Denis Leary Foundation, the Boston Bruins, the Boston Celtics and the New England Revolution as well as dancing for the MTV Music Awards and the NBA All-Star Game.As a singer-songwriter, her song, “To Dad, With Love,†became an instant hit, receiving national attention on ABC Radio with Sean Hannity, the Westwood One Radio Network, The Martha Zoller Show and several national radio broadcasts. The song, dedicated to her father, a fire captain deployed and injured in Iraq, resonated with the American public here and troops stationed overseas. “To Dad, With Love†was recently played at the United States Pentagon for U.S. military leaders and civilian dignitaries, and was once the most requested song on the Worcester, Massachusetts popular radio station WXLO-FM.As an actress, she can be seen in the films Headhunter (opposite Matt Barr, Brian Krause and Tom Sizemore), The Savage Roses and A Woman’s Wound. On stage, her credits include Grease, West Side Story, World of Disney (the role of Mary Poppins) and Tomedy (directed by and starring Tommy Davidson). In addition, she has appeared in numerous commercials, industrials and print ad campaigns.She has studied with Liz Lewis, Elizabeth Bunnell, Patricia Hoag-Simon, Richard Sabellico, Paul Katz, Chip Hand, Michael Goodrich and Don Lawrence (former vocal coach for U2’s Bono and Christina Aguilera).Jillian can currently be found either auditioning for theater and film projects or in the studio, writing and recording new songs and working with established music producers to complete her forthcoming album.
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