I used this photo of an incredibly well hung guy as an illustration for my profile of the Norwegian Fire Viking. He looks a lot like the incredibly cute Russell Posner, so I thought I would do a profile, on the off chance that they are the same person.
Turns out that the incredibly cute Russell Posner is not too easy to track down.
Famous Birthdays promises "A complete biography," but the complete biography consists of: "Canadian actor, born in 2003."
Rotten Tomatoes adds that "began acting in commercials while in elementary school, and made his stage debut in Lost in Yonkers in 2012." When he was nine years old?
Broadway World likewise promises a "complete biography," and says only that he starred in The Mist.
His listing on We Audition says only that he's a "New York based actor"
Trying to find him by googling "Russell Posner" and any of "high school," "college," "theater," "commercials," "Canada," and "actor" yields a guy from Florida who died at age 77 and a postdoctoral researcher in oncology.
Plus a shirtless photo of an incredibly cute guy who doesn't look like him.
Russell has 14 acting credits listed on the IMDB, beginning with the 11 year old son in Eugene! (2012), a tv movie starring Eugene Mirman.
Next Russell played the son of a journalist who decides to research The Pirates of Somalia (2017).
Russell's most famous work to date is in The Mist (2017), based on the Stephen King novel. I just read the plot synopsis on the fan wiki, but it sounds incredibly homophobic:
As a murderous mist descends upon the town, high school Adrian (Russell) is at a party with his girlfriend, getting bullied for being gay (wait, that doesn't...). Later while taking refuge in a hospital, he kisses Tyler (Chris Gray), who beats him up, then relents and agrees to sex.
He is kidnapped by a psych ward patient who sees "the incredible evil" in him. They must mean being gay.
His Dad says that he could have loved him "in spite of being gay," if only he were "right in the head." In spite of?
More after the break
Survivor group leader Kevin (Morgan Spector) discovers that Adrian sexually assaulted his daughter on the night of the party (wait -- I thought he was gay. Was he trying to prove his straightness?). So he tries to kill Adrian, and Adrian tries to kill Kevin, and it goes on like that.
Left: Morgan's incredible dick
In the pilot episode of The Deuce (2017), Russell plays Stu, who has received the "gift" of a sex worker for his birthday. He finishes before she has the chance to get the condom on, then gets incredibly angry when she won't agree to a second shot: "You barely had to do anything. And it costs just as much as for someone who takes longer."
Light Years (2019): In 1999, Kevin (Chris Gray of The Mist) lost his gay-subtext buddy Briggs (Russell). He goes on an annual vision quest to visit, but this year he gets stuck, and ends up seeing his own face everywhere.
The Politician (2019) stars Ben Platt as a gay high schooler who will do anything to be elected class president, including pretending to be straight. In Episode 1.5, he runs afoul of undecided voter Elliott (Russell), who is more interested in masturbating (to videos of girls) than politics, and will do anything...anything...to win his vote.
Russell's last acting role on the IMDB is Daniel in two episodes of The Plot Against America (2020), A misleading title -- it's not about the far right's belief about gay people trying to destroy the country, it's based on the Philip Roth novel featuring an alternate world where Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) is campaigning against Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. Later on he wins the election and turns the U.S. into a pro-Hitler Gestapo state, as seen through the eyes of a middle-class Jewish family (gee, does that remind you of any current political situation?)
Based on Russell's acting roles, I'm going to guess that he is straight in real life. But what has he been doing since 2020? If he was born in 2003, he would be attending college, but I find no reference to any college or university. His Facebook, X, and Instagram feeds all end in 2020. I don't find a death notice, in case that's what you were thinking of. There is nothing at all. He has vanished.
Yes, I was trying to use "incredibly" as often as possible..jpg)
See also:
"The Deuce": The top ten penises of the mafiosi, porn stars, and gay activists in 1970s New York
"The Politician": Gay-Light Sociopaths in a Hunk-Infested High School
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