Sherri Russell
Acting
Born: 1958-02-08 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Biography
Sherri Martel was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri. Martel began her professional wrestling career in the Mid South after training in Columbia, South Carolina. She joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s and held its AWA World Women's Championship three times. In the late 1980s, she joined WWE, where she held the WWE Women's Championship. Also in WWE, Martel continued to act as a manager to wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, and Shawn Michaels. She appeared in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the 1990s. In the latter, Martel acted as the manager for the tag team Harlem Heat. After leaving WCW, she made few wrestling related appearances until her death in 2007. She also appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in September 2006 as a manager for Bobby Roode which ended up being her last televised wrestling appearance. By 2003, she and her husband Robert Schrull lived in Tennessee, where she helped him renovate homes. She was married and divorced at least twice during her life, and Booker T gave her away at one of her weddings. She had one son. Death On June 15, 2007, Martel died at her mother's residence in McCalla, Alabama, near Birmingham. She was 49 years old. On September 11, 2007, homicide investigators in Tuscaloosa, Alabama released the toxicology report stating that she died of an overdose with multiple drugs in her system, including high amounts of oxycodone. She was cremated after her death
Known For
Raw
Sensational Sherri (archive footage)
Raw
Sensational Sherri
WWF Superstars
Sensational Sherri
WWF Superstars
Peggy Sue
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event
Peggy Sue
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event
Sensational Sherri (Manager)
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event
Sensational Queen Sherri
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event
Sensational Sherri
WWF Wrestling Challenge
Sherri Martel
WWF Wrestling Challenge
Sensational Queen Sherri
WWF Wrestling Challenge
Sensational Sherri
WWF Wrestling Challenge
Peggy Sue
TNA iMPACT!
WWE Old School
Sensational Sherri
WWE Old School
Sherri Martel (Manager)
Clash of the Champions
Sensuous Sherri
Clash of the Champions
Sensuous Sherri (Valet)
Clash of the Champions
Sister Sherri
WCW Monday Nitro
Dark Side of the Ring
Sherri Martel (archive footage)
WWE This Is Awesome
Sherri Martel (archive footage)
WWF The Main Event
Peggy Sue (Valet)
WWE WrestleMania IV
Peggy Sue (Valet)
AWA All-Star Wrestling
Sherri Martel (Manager)
WWE SummerSlam 1989
Sensational Sherri
WrestleMania: The Greatest Hits
Sensational Queen Sherri
WWE SummerSlam 1991
Sensational Sherri (Valet)
WWE WrestleMania IX
Sensational Sherri (Ringside)
WWE Survivor Series 1991
Sensational Sherri (Valet)
WWE World Tour '90
Sensational Sherri (Manager)
WWE Royal Rumble 1991
Sensational Sherri
WWE WrestleMania VIII
Sensational Sherri (Valet)
Macho Madness
Peggy Sue
WCW World War 3 1996
Sister Sherri
The Brains Behind the Brawn
Sensational Sherri Martel
WWE SummerSlam 1990
Sensational Queen Sherri
WWE Smack 'Em Whack 'Em
Sensational Sherri (Manager)