Born in Gary, Indiana in 1964, and moved to Los Angeles at a young age. Theresa Randle began her performing career
by studying dance (traditional, modern, jazz) and comedy. She entered
Beverly Hills High School, with a special program for the exceptionally
gifted. At the end of college she earned her first role at the Los
Angeles Inner City Cultural Center and was seen in commercials. Theresa
was also involved in acting on the stage, with roles in such
productions as "In Command of the Children", "Sonata", "6 Parts of
Musical Broadway" and "Fight the Good Fight".
In 1987 she got her first big-screen break with
Traumfrau vom Dienst (1987). For the next
three years she appeared (in small roles) in such movies as
Die Girls Gang (1989) and
Der Chaoten-Cop (1990), with
Denzel Washington). She continued in small roles by great directors
such as Abel Ferrara
(King of New York (1990)) and
Spike Lee
(Jungle Fever (1991) and
Malcolm X (1992)). In 1995 she starred
in
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
and Bad Boys - Harte Jungs (1995) (with
Will Smith). In 1996 she earned her
first starring role in Spike Lee's
Girl 6 (1996), playing a young,
out-of-work actress who gets caught up in the seductive, yet dark,
world of phone sex.
She has also appeared in
Space Jam (1996), with
Michael Jordan (and a bevy of
classic Warner Bros. cartoon characters) and recently in the film
adaptation of the comic strip Spawn (1997),
with Martin Sheen).
