Original GLOW Star Tiffany Million Returns to Film in Russian Manimal Volkoff

WEPAAAA! Wrestling fans who remember the original GLOW era have a familiar face heading back to the screen. Tiffany Million, one of the performers associated with the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, is appearing in Russian Manimal Volkoff, an offbeat independent film that brings together pro-wrestling personalities, genre actors and a whole lot of monster-movie weirdness.

According to the production’s announcement, the film marks Million’s first movie appearance in approximately 20 years. That’s the kind of comeback worth noting, especially for fans who have followed the women of GLOW beyond the ring. Those performers helped carve out a place for women’s wrestling on television long before the current generation of major promotions put women’s divisions front and center.

The film itself sounds like somebody threw a wrestling event, a mad-science experiment and a midnight creature feature into the same blender. Its central character is described as a former Soviet hockey player who becomes entangled in an animal-DNA experiment before finding his way into professional wrestling in New Jersey. It’s a deliberately bizarre setup, and the production is leaning into that tone with a mix of comedy, suspense and action.

The cast includes Olga Kurkulina, Erika Andersch, known to American Gladiators fans as Diamond, Deron McBee, Johnny Necro, Jaye McBride, Andrew Bryniarski, Gary Wolf, Tommy Cairo and Angel Orsini. Wrestling fans will recognize several of those names, while horror and cult-film followers may spot a few more. The filmmakers are clearly going for a crossover crowd that enjoys both worlds.

Million’s involvement is more than a cameo announcement. The publicity materials say she has trained and managed Volkoff, and that additional scenes featuring Million and the production team are planned around Chiller Theatre in Parsippany, New Jersey, on October 30, 2026. That’s an unusual meeting point for the wrestling and horror communities, although anyone who’s spent time at a convention knows those fandoms overlap more than people think.

I’m not going to pretend we know whether the finished film will be a cult classic before anybody sees it. What we do have is an original GLOW personality making a comeback, a production that isn’t afraid to get ridiculous, and a cast with deep roots in wrestling and genre entertainment. Sometimes that’s enough to make a project worth watching.

The production has released a trailer on YouTube, and the film has an IMDb listing for anyone looking to follow its progress. We’ll keep an eye on confirmed release details as they become available.