• Husband: Dan Gilroy & married with Rene on March 14, 1992.
• Family: Fraternal twin brother is John Gilroy, his Older brother is Tony Gilroyand his Father is Frank D. Gilroy.
• Career: He wrote an almost-used draft for "Superman Lives," to be directed by "Burton, Tim" and star "Cage, Nicholas" in the title role. His version worked under the concept that Lex Luthor had been taken over by an alien intelligence and succesfully killed Superman.Fraternal twin brother, John Gilroy, Older brother, Tony Gilroy,Father is Frank D. Gilroy.

• Father: Nino Russo. abandoned family when Russo was two years old; reportedly contacted her after she began her modeling career; had a total of eight children by four different women; died of congestive heart failure in 1996 at age 74.
» Mother: Shirley Balocca. raised Russo; Russo revealed in a March 14, 2002 "Good Morning America" interview that her mother raised her with a lesbian partner
• Sister: Toni Russo. born in April 1956
• Half-brother: David Russo. born c. 1957
• Rene has seven siblings on her father's side. The late, one time auto mechanic turned sculptor, Nino Russo had at least six other children besides Rene, they are: Jim, January Debra, Toni Lynn, David, and Anthony John Russo.
• Daughter-in-law of Frank D. Gilroy.
• Sister-in-law of John Gilroy and Tony Gilroy.