Trivia

As Russell pondered the complex family relations of Wagner's doomed and addled Siegfried and followed him from the rock of Brunnhilde to the palace of Gutrune, she paused to note that Gutrune is "the only woman that Siegfried's ever come across who wasn't his aunt. I'm not making this up, you know!" The line became her catchphrase and the title of her 1985 autobiography.

Her catchphrase was "I'm not making this up, you know!".

After spending many years in North America, Anna Russell relocated to New South Wales and spent the last years of her life with her "adopted daughter" and biographer Darlene Prussak.