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Full Name:	Gina Gershon
Famous As:	Actress, TV actress
Date of Birth:	June 10, 1962
Place of Birth:	Los Angeles, California, USA
Height:	5' 5?
Nationality:	American

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Gina Gershon
At the Tribeca Film Festival, April 2006.
Born	Gina L. Gershon June 10, 1962 (1962-06-10) (age 47) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1985–present
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Gina L. Gershon (born June 10, 1962) is an American film and television actress, known for her roles in the films Cocktail (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound (1996), and Face/Off (1997).

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Filmography 3.1 Movies 3.2 Television 3.3 Broadway 4 References 5 External links

Personal life

Gershon was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Mickey (née Koppel), an interior decorator, and Stan Gershon, who worked in the import/export business and sales.¹² Gershon is Jewish,¹ and has a brother, Dan, and a sister, Tracy. She attended Beverly Hills High School with Lenny Kravitz.³ After high school, Gershon moved to Boston, where she attended Emerson College.

A 2008 Vanity Fair article linked her romantically with former President Bill Clinton.⁴ Speaking on the U.S. television show Live with Regis and Kelly on June 9, she said, "It is such a crazy, outrageous lie… I met him three times at events. It disturbed me on so many levels. I felt I had to stand up and say the truth."⁵

Career

Gershon moved to New York City from Boston to attend New York University, where she studied drama and child psychology. She also attended the Circle in the Square Professional Theater School in New York, working with David Mamet and Harold Guskin. She is one of the founding members of the New York-based theater group Naked Angels.⁶

She has thrice appeared on Broadway, as Sally Bowles in the revival of Cabaret, in the revival of the sex farce Boeing-Boeing, and is currently playing Rosie Alvarez in the Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie at the Roundabout Theatre Company ⁷.

Her first acting venues were stage appearances in Camille and The Substance of Fire. She had a cameo role in The Cars 1984 video Hello Again along side Andy Warhol. Her break came with a bit part in 1986's Pretty in Pink, and then a bigger part in Cocktail, with Tom Cruise. Gershon also worked in TV, with a recurring role on Melrose Place. She won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Nancy Sinatra in the made-for-TV biopic Sinatra. In 1996, she played Corky, an ex-con who gets mixed up in a lesbian affair with Jennifer Tilly, in the mobster flick Bound. The following year, she costarred with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in Face/Off.⁶

Gershon is regarded as a gay icon⁸ because of her roles in movies such as Bound (in which she played a butch lesbian), Prey for Rock & Roll, and Showgirls (which is regarded as a camp classic). She was ranked #51 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2004.⁹

Gershon played Jew's harp on "I Can't Decide", a song on the Scissor Sisters 2006 release Ta-Dah. She also played Jew's harp on the song "I Do It For Your Love", Paul Simon's collaboration with Herbie Hancock on his album Possibilities. On television, she has recurring roles on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (as a Hasidic dry cleaner), Rescue Me, and the U.S. dramedy series Ugly Betty (as Italian cosmetics mogul Fabia, the rival of Wilhelmina Slater). She also has served as the voiceover for Major League Baseball's "I Live For This" promotional campaign.

Gershon also appears in Lenny Kravitz's Music Video entitled "Again."

She and her brother Dann are the authors of the children's book Camp Creepy Time.

On September 10, 2008, Gershon appeared in a video on funnyordie.com, parodying former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, titled "Gina Gershon Strips Down Sarah Palin"¹⁰ which she followed with "Gina Gershon Does Sarah Palin 2".¹¹

Filmography

Movies

• Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)—dancer at audition (uncredited)
• Pretty in Pink (1986)—gym student/friend at prom
• Sweet Revenge (1987)—K.C.
• Red Heat (1988)—Cat Manzetti
• Cocktail (1988)—Coral
• Out for Justice (1991)—Patti Madano
• The Player (1992)—Whitney Gersh
• Flinch (1994)—Daphne James
• Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995)—Margo Preston
• Showgirls (1995)—Cristal Connors
• Bound (1996)—Corky
• Face/Off (1997)—Sasha Hassler
• This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)—Carol Lakewood Morton
• Palmetto (1998)—Nina
• Prague Duet (1998)— Dr. Lauren Graham
• One Tough Cop (1998)—Joey O'Hara
• Black & White (1998)—Nora "Hugs" Hugosian
• Lulu on the Bridge (1998)—Hannah
• Guinevere (1999)—Billie
• The Insider (1999)—Helen Caperelli
• Driven (2001)—Cathy Heguy
• Picture Claire (2001)—Lily Warden
• Borderline (2002)—Lila Coletti
• Demonlover (2002)—Elaine Si Gibril
• Prey for Rock & Roll (2003)—Jacki
• Three Way (2004)—Florence
• Out of Season (2004)—Eileen Phillips
• Category 7: The End of the World (2005)—Judith Carr
• Dreamland (2006)—Mary
• One Last Thing... (2006)—Arlene
• Kettle of Fish (2006)—Ginger
• What Love Is (2006)—Rachel
• Delirious (2007)—Dana
• P.S. I Love You (2007)—Sharon
• Beer for My Horses (2008)—Cammie
• Just Business (2008)—Marty
• Love Ranch (2009)

Television

• The New Twilight Zone (1987)—Laura/Prince (Season 2, Episode 18 "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1989)—Randy
• Sinatra (1992)—Nancy Barbato Sinatra
• Melrose Place (1993)—Ellen
• Legalese (1998)-Angela
• Snoops (1999)—Glenn Hall
• The Job (2001?)—Herself
• Just Shoot Me! (2002–03)—Rhonda Ferrara (two episodes)
• Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)—Shikata (voice)
• Tripping the Rift (2004)—Six (voice, replaced by Carmen Electra in Season 2)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004 & 2007)—Anna
• The Batman (2004–08)—Catwoman (voice)
• Ugly Betty (2006-2007)—Fabia (Season 1, Episode 1, 14, 23)
• Psych (2007)—Emilina Saffron (episode "American Duos")
• Rescue Me (2007)—Valerie (episodes "Solo", "Animal", "High", "Cycle", "Keefe", and "Yaz")
• Numb3rs ¹²
• Eastbound & Down (2009)—(Season 1, Episode 5 "Chapter 5")
• All She Ever Wanted (2009)- Lifetime Movie Network miniseries

Broadway

• Cabaret (1998 revival)—Sally Bowles
• Boeing Boeing (2008 revival)—Gabriella
• Bye Bye Birdie (2009 revival)—Rose Alvarez

References

External links

• Official website (features detailed filmography, biography, news)
• Gina Gershon at the Internet Movie Database
• Gina Gershon at the Notable Names Database
• Q&A from Entertainment Weekly (June 19, 2007)
• Camp Creepy Time website