Greg P. Russell began his career at T.T.G. Recording Studios in 1977 as an assistant recording engineer on several hit television shows, including The Love Boat, Charlie's Angels, Hart to Hart, Vegas, and Fantasy Island.
In 1981, Greg moved to Evergreen Studios, where he worked with such artists as Neil Diamond, Al Stewart, Heart, and Ringo Starr, among many others. In 1983, he transitioned from recording engineer to re-recording mixer at B&B Sound Studios. During Greg's tenure at B&B he mixed fifty-five feature films, including the original movie Hairspray for John Waters, and numerous television shows, earning him two Emmy nominations and one win.
In 1988 Greg took his passion of mixing to Warner Brothers, and within a year received his first Academy Award nomination for Sound Mixing on Ridley Scott's Black Rain. While at Warner Brothers, Greg mixed such films as Tequila Sunrise, The Bodyguard, Usual Suspects, Steel Magnolias, Star Trek IV, Point Break, and Stargate, to name a few.
In 1995, Greg migrated to Sony Studios, where for the past sixteen years he has mixed some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters and has earned Oscar nominations for his work on The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, The Mask of Zorro, The Patriot, Pearl Harbor, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Memoirs of a Geisha, Apocalypto, Transformers, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, Salt, Transformers:Dark of the Moon.
In 2011 he opened the brand new Technicolor facility on the Paramount lot with 4-time Oscar winner Scott Millan. In the first year they were nominated for the spy-thriller Skyfall directed by Sam Mendes.
Over the past 35 years Greg has collaborated with some of the most talented director's in Hollywood. That list includes Michael Bay, Sam Raimi, Ron Howard, Tony Scott, Ridley Scott, James L. Brooks, Phillip Noyce, William Friedkin, Tim Burton, Kathyrn Bigelow, Barry Sonnenfeld, Barbara Streisand, Mel Gibson, Rob Marshall, Gabrielle Muccino, Jon Turteltaub, Rob Riener, Carl Riener, Paul Verhoeven, Diane Keaton, Adrian Lyne, Roland Emmerich, Martin Campbell, Bryan Singer, Jonathan Mostow, Richard Donner, John Avildsen, Herbert Ross, Harold Becker, Jonathan Lynn, Robert Towne, John Waters, Michel Gondry, Simon West, Ron Underwood, Dominic Sena, Lawrence Kasden and Nicolas Meyer.
With over 195 films to his credit and 16 Oscar nominations Greg is one of the most well respected sound mixers in the industry.
