Mark Russell

Mark Russell is a scientist who appears in the 2019 Legendary Pictures Godzilla film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters and its 2021 sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong. Fascinated with nature and the possibility of communication between man and wildlife since childhood, Mark Russell met his wife Emma while both were performing post-graduate studies at MIT. They shared a passion for bioacoustics and together developed a device dubbed "ORCA" which represented unprecedented potential in interspecies communication. The device was originally developed to keep dolphins and whales away from shores, but when it was first tested it caught the attention of Monarch, who recruited the husband-and-wife duo into the organization. Mark became Monarch's Senior Anthrozoologist, all while raising a daughter, Madison, and a son, Andrew. However, following a family tragedy in 2014, Mark resigned from Monarch and divorced with his wife. While his relationship with his daughter can best be described as distant, he does maintain limited communication with Madison, who primarily lives with her mother.