Russo particularly enjoyed performing in fetish videos and felt that he could put more creative input into those. Russo's first video appearance was in Bijou's Beat Cop in 1991. He also appeared in Mandate, Blueboy, and Inches, among others. Russo began body building at age 24 and began modeling for pictorial magazines in the '80s, starting with Honcho in 1988. He ran with the Studio 54 crowd in New York and worked at a bar called Crisco Disco, meeting many famous people including the Rolling Stones, Andy Warhol, Sylvester, and Billy Idol. I did what I wanted to do, and there was no stopping me. Russo called his younger self 'a bad hard-ass motherfucker of a teenager. Muscular, tattooed Donnie Russo was a star in gay porn films - from fetish videos to glossier productions from larger studios - and producer of many gay porn films throughout the '90s and beyond.
