Russell Geoffrey Banks

Russell Geoffrey Banks was born in Northampton, and grew up in London at the age of twelve the family moved to the Isle of Wight[1]

Banks started his film career as an extra, later transitioning to a stand in on such movies as Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Formosa Betrayed, Shanghai starring John Cusack and then The Hangover Part II, standing in for Bradley Cooper.

After playing bit parts in such films as The Mark: Redemption with Gary Daniels, Eric Roberts, Tekken: Kazuya's Revenge, and Dragonwolf, Banks had his first main role in Goodnight Gloria,[2] a film he co-wrote. In Cam2Cam,[3] he played a homicidal maniac[4] in the film directed by Joel Soisson. Banks was later featured in Pernicious, a Thai-American film directed by James Cullen Bressack. Banks later traveled to India to shoot Vishwaroopam II, a film featuring Kamal Haasan and Shekhar Kapur, directed by Kamal Haasan. Banks then took a role with Benetone Hillin Entertainment for what would be a third time in total to play Mordred in King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, directed by Jared Cohn. In this movie, Sara Malakul Lane[5] played his mother and would later star alongside him in Who's Watching Oliver.[6] Banks returned to the horror genre to work alongside Scout Taylor-Compton in Rich Ragsdale's Ghost House.[7]

In 2017, he won two film festival awards and was nominated for a further three for his portrayal of Oliver, a mentally unstable serial killer in Richie Moore's, Who's Watching Oliver[8] (a film Banks co-wrote.)[9]