Gina Gershon

Gina Gershon

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Birthday: 
10 June 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name: 
Gina L. Gershon
Height: 
168 cm
Since making her uncredited debut as a dancer in Beatlemania (1981), Gina Gershon has established herself as a character actress and one of the leading icons of American camp. For it was fourteen years after her movie debut that Gina made movie history as the predatory bisexual who was the leading light of a Las Vegas leg-line in director Paul Verh... Show more »
Since making her uncredited debut as a dancer in Beatlemania (1981), Gina Gershon has established herself as a character actress and one of the leading icons of American camp. For it was fourteen years after her movie debut that Gina made movie history as the predatory bisexual who was the leading light of a Las Vegas leg-line in director Paul Verhoeven's kitsch classic Showgirls (1995). Exploding out of a plaster-of-Paris volcano clad in nothing but body makeup and a G-string, Gina Gershon obtained cinema immortality. After Showgirls (1995), she solidified her reputation, playing a lesbian sexpot in the Wachovski Bros' neo-noir Bound (1996).Gina Gershon was born in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, the last in a brood of three kids. Her mother, Mickey (Koppel), worked as an interior decorator, and her father, Stanley Gershon, was a salesman and worked in the import/export business. Her paternal grandparents were from Russian Jewish families, and her maternal grandparents were born in Holland and Belgium, both of them to Jewish families from Poland. Gina was raised in the San Fernando Valley, and got the acting bug early, appearing at the age of seven in a school production of Bye Bye Birdie (1963). Because of her acting ambitions, her parents moved to Beverly Hills so Gina could attend Beverly Hills High, where she indulged her acting jones by appearing in a student production of The Music Man (1962). Her first love, she says, is singing.After graduating from high school in 1980, she attended Emerson College in Boston, but took a part in the musical "Runaways". She transferred to New York University, where her official biography says she studied philosophy and psychology, but she graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts, taking a bachelor of fine arts degree in drama in 1983. In New York City, while perfecting her craft, she co-founded the theater company Naked Angels with Helen Slater.Her big-screen breakthrough came with a part in the 1986 "Brat Pack" teenage hit Pretty in Pink (1986). She also had parts in the Tom Cruise vehicle Cocktail (1988) and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Red Heat (1988). Of this period, she says, "One of my first gigs, a movie called Cocktail (1988), I found myself at 8 in the morning, in bed, practically naked, having to make out with Tom Cruise; hmmmm... movie business - so far, so good".Citing Frank Sinatra's song "My Way" as an inspiration, she says that following Cocktail (1988), "I was fortunate enough to play many diversified roles in film, television and stage. Not always to the liking of my managers and agents, but I always did what I wanted...." She played Nancy Sinatra, Frank's first wife, in the TV miniseries Sinatra (1992).Gina Gershon became a celebrity in Showgirls (1995). The following year, Gershon solidified her claim on second-tier stardom playing the calculating lesbian "Corky" in the crime movie Bound (1995). She never did capitalize on her mid-1990s breakthrough, but Gershon is established as a character actress and is never out of work, unlike most of her female peers who started out in the industry at the same time. Though no classic beauty, the talented thespian remains gainfully employed while many actresses of her vintage are out of work as she is possessed of a unique look and smoldering sex appeal that comes across on camera.Gershon is versatile, too, as at home on stage as she is in front of the camera. After appearing in off-Broadway and regional theater productions, she made her Broadway debut as a replacement in Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret (1972) in January 2001. For six months, she played the key role of "Sally Bowles", returning that October to reprise the role for another month. In 2008, she once again appeared on Broadway in the revival of the farce "Boeing Boeing" on Broadway, which won the Tony award for Best Revival.Gina Gershon also is a children's book writer. In 2008, Putmam Juvenile published her "Camp Creepy Time", a tale of a boy who discovers aliens at his summer camp, which she co-wrote with her brother, Dann Gershon. "Camp Creepy Time" recently was optioned by DreamWorks, which plans to turn it into a movie. In 2008, she also released "In Search Of Cleo", a CD featuring nine songs which she wrote or co-wrote. Show less «

Gina Gershon's FILMOGRAPHY

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 12

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Family Guy - Season 22

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Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens - Season 3

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American Dad - Season 20

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Chucky - Season 3

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The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 11

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Riverdale - Season 7

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Thanksgiving (2023)

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The Good Fight - season 6

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Family Guy - Season 21

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New Amsterdam - Season 5

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American Dad - Season 19

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Chucky - Season 2

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The Tonight Show Fallon - Season 10

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Emily the Criminal

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Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 11

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Season 8

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The Good Fight - Season 5

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Family Guy - Season 20

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New Amsterdam - Season 3

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New Amsterdam - Season 4

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Younger - Season 7

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Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens - Season 2

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Gina Gershon'S roles

Donatella Versace
Donatella Versace
Sasha Hassler
Sasha Hassler
Patti Madano
Patti Madano
Catherine 'Cat' Manzetti
Catherine 'Cat' Manzetti
Cristal Connors
Cristal Connors
Sharla Smith
Sharla Smith
Corky
Corky
Helen Caperelli
Helen Caperelli
Sharon
Sharon
Cathy Heguy
Cathy Heguy
Maria
Maria
Mother
Mother
Governor Wilkes
Governor Wilkes
Langwidere
Langwidere
Valerie
Valerie
Glenn Hall
Glenn Hall
Emilina Saffron
Emilina Saffron
Gloria
Gloria
Lieutenant Melanie Hawkins
Lieutenant Melanie Hawkins
Danielle Hill
Danielle Hill
Anna
Anna
The Cashier
The Cashier
Fabia
Fabia
Fay Getty
Fay Getty
Elana March
Elana March
Helen von Wyeth
Helen von Wyeth
La Reina
La Reina
Lieutenant Melanie Hawkins, Lt. Melanie Hawkins
Lieutenant Melanie Hawkins, Lt. Melanie Hawkins