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When Felicity ended, Russell moved to New York City and made her off-Broadway stage debut in 2004, appearing opposite Jeremy Piven, Andrew McCarthy, and Ashlie Atkinson in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig.

In 2005, she returned to television and film, beginning with an appearance in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie The Magic of Ordinary Days, theatrical film The Upside of Anger ( alongside Kevin Costner, Joan Allen and Evan Rachel Wood ), and the television miniseries Into the West.

DirectingMission: Impossible III in 2005, Abrams asked Russell to join the cast and she accepted.

She was screen tested for the role of Lois Lane in Superman Returns but lost the role to Kate Bosworth.

She played " Melody " on the NBC show Scrubs in 2007.

She starred as " Jenna " in Waitress, which marks the fourth time Russell had played a pregnant woman.

Russell's performance was positively received by critics, with Michael Sragow of The Baltimore Sun writing that Russell's performance had " aesthetic character " and " wields tenderness and fierceness with quiet heat ".

She has completed roles in Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story ( titled Rohtenburg for its German release ), in which she plays Katie Armstrong, a graduate student who writes a thesis paper on an infamous cannibal murder case, and the thriller The Girl in the Park, opposite Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth and Alessandro Nivola.

Russell next appeared in August Rush, released in November, 2007.

She also appeared on the cover of the New York Posts Page Six magazine on November 11, 2007.