Gina Carano

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Gina Carano (2015)

Gina Joy Carano (born April 16, 1982 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American actress and former mixed martial arts fighter.

life and career

Carano was born in Dallas, Texas to the football player Glenn Carano . She has two sisters. She played basketball at Trinity Christian High School in Las Vegas . She completed a psychology degree from the University of Nevada at Reno .

Carano came to MMA through Muay Thai . She had her first fight at the fight organizer EliteXC on June 10, 2006 in Las Vegas. By October 2008, another six fights followed, all of which ended victoriously, until she was defeated for the first time in the main fight of the strike force event Carano vs. Cyborg in August 2009 . She was also part of the new edition of American Gladiators as Gladiator Crush . Carano trained at Xtreme Couture Mixed Martial Arts . In the computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 from 2008, she played the Soviet special agent Natasha .

Carano made her acting debut in 2009 in a supporting role in the film Blood and Bone . She played her first leading role in the film Haywire by director Steven Soderbergh from 2012. Since the beginning of August 2012, Carano has been in front of the camera while filming the sixth part of the series The Fast and the Furious . In Deadpool , the film adaptation of the Marvel Comics of the same name with Ryan Reynolds , she played the character Angel Dust . From 2019 to 2020 she played the character of Cara Dune in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian , for which she was cast by series developer Jon Favreau without an audition.

Political views and controversies

In August 2020, Carano was criticized for blocking accounts on Twitter that support Black Lives Matter . She called her critics "cowards and bullies" but denied allegations of racism . Carano was also accused of transphobia when she added the words "beep / bop / boop" to her online profile, which critics perceived as derision of the use of preferred gender pronouns by transgender people and their allies. She later deleted the terms, saying that actor Pedro Pascal "helped her understand the meaning behind the preferred pronouns".

The actress also shared misinformation regarding the effectiveness of protective masks against COVID-19 and widespread conspiracy theories about electoral fraud in the 2020 US presidential election . Some critics used the hashtag #FireGinaCarano (kicking Gina Carano out), after which a social media wave formed with the hashtag #WeLoveGinaCarano (we love Gina Carano) to urge Disney to replace Carano in The Mandalorian . Carano eventually opened an account on the Parler social media platform while keeping her other social media accounts.

The hashtag #FireGinaCarano reappeared in February 2021 after Carano shared a post on Instagram that compared political intolerance to the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany . In response, Lucasfilm stated that Carano was no longer employed by them and would not appear in any future Star Wars projects. On the same day it was announced that the artist agency United Talent Agency Carano was not referring any further. On February 12, 2021, it was announced that Ben Shapiro's The Daily Wire would produce a film with Carano. Carano said: “I am sending a direct message of hope to everyone who lives in fear of boycott by the totalitarian mob. I've only just started raising my voice, which is freer now than ever, and I hope it inspires others to do the same. They can't boycott us if we don't let them. "

Filmography (selection)

MMA fights

result Balance sheet Opponent decision event date Round time place
victory 1-0 United StatesUnited States Leiticia Pestova KO WEF - World Extreme Fighting June 10, 2006 1 0:38 United StatesUnited States Las Vegas , Nevada , USA
victory 2-0 EnglandEngland Rosi Sexton KO WPFC 1 - World Pro Fighting Championships September 15, 2006 2 4:55 United StatesUnited States Las Vegas , Nevada , USA
victory 3-0 United StatesUnited States Elaina Maxwell on points Strikeforce : Triple Threat December 8, 2006 3 2:00 United StatesUnited States San Jose , California , USA
victory 4-0 United StatesUnited States Julie Kedzie on points EliteXC : Destiny February 10, 2007 3 3:00 United StatesUnited States Southaven , Mississippi , USA
victory 5-0 United StatesUnited States Tonya Evinger task EliteXC : Uprising September 15, 2007 1 2:53 United StatesUnited States Honolulu , Hawaii , USA
victory 6-0 United StatesUnited States Kaitlin Young Technical KO (doctor's decision) EliteXC : Primetime May 31, 2008 2 3:00 United StatesUnited States Newark , New Jersey , USA
victory 7-0 United StatesUnited States Kelly Leprechaun on points EliteXC : Heat 4th October 2008 3 3:00 United StatesUnited States Sunrise , Florida , USA
defeat 7: 1 BrazilBrazil Cristiane Santos Technical KO (referee decision) Strikeforce : Carano vs. Cyborg August 15, 2009 1 4:59 United StatesUnited States San Jose , California , USA

Web links

Commons : Gina Carano  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Universal: Press Booklet Fast & Furious 6 , 2013, p. 45: "Carano was born in Dallas / Texas."
  2. ↑ Kevin Iole (May 28, 2008). Carano wants to be fighter first, star later . Yahoo Sports . Old: http://mmajunkie.com/news/4444/gina-carano-wants-to-be-fighter-first-star-later.mma ( Memento from May 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved August 1, 2008.
  3. ↑ a b Naoki Fukuda: Balls, Beauty & Brains! That's Las Vegas miracle girl GINA CARANO! . mat-magazine.com. Archived from the original on November 5, 2008. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ Jack Sheehan (1 September 2007) Do not let her good looks fool you Stunning Gina Carano has a near-perfect record in mma Las Vegas Sun . Retrieved January 1, 2008
  5. ↑ Xtreme Couture: Fightteam Xtreme Couture ( Memento from March 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Jordy McElroy: Gina Carano Leaves Xtreme Couture, Joins Jackson's MMA. In: Bleacher Report. April 5, 2011, accessed September 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Xtreme Couture: [1]
  8. ↑ Sebastian Jäger: Shooting has already started, Joe Taslim is playing. In: gamona.de. August 1, 2012, accessed October 2, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Bory's Kit: 'Haywire' star Gina Carano in Talks to Join 'Fast & Furious 6' , Hollywood Reporter, April 23, 2012, accessed May 1, 2012
  10. ↑ XiXi Yang: Tyrese Talks "Fast Six" and Wants to be in "Transformers 4"! ( Memento of July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , PopStopTV.com, July 8, 2012, accessed June 28, 2019.
  11. ↑ Brian Davids: 'The Mandalorian' Star Gina Carano on Cara Dune's Secret Backstory. In: The Hollywood Reporter. December 3, 2019, accessed November 20, 2020 .
  12. ↑ a b "Abominable and unacceptable": Lucasfilm fires "The Mandalorian" star Gina Carano. Retrieved on February 11, 2021 (German).
  13. ↑ Star Wars: some Mandalorian fans unhappy with Gina Carano - CBBC Newsround . ( bbc.co.uk [accessed February 11, 2021]).
  14. ↑ Fans accuse Mandalorian star of 'mocking trans people' with pronouns joke. September 14, 2020, accessed on February 12, 2021 .
  15. ^ Anthony D'Alessandro: Lucasfilm Calls Gina Carano Social Media Posts “Abhorrent”; Actress No Longer Employed By 'Mandalorian' Studio. In: Deadline. February 11, 2021, accessed February 11, 2021 (American English).
  16. ↑ a b Jordan Moreau: 'Mandalorian' Star Gina Carano Under Fire for Controversial Social Media Posts. In: Variety. February 10, 2021, accessed February 11, 2021 (American English).
  17. ↑ 'The Mandalorian' fans call for Gina Carano to be sacked after anti-mask tweets. Retrieved February 11, 2021 (American English).
  18. ↑ The Mandalorian May Want More Cara Dune But Many Star Wars Fans Want Less Gina Carano. November 21, 2020, accessed February 11, 2021 (American English).
  19. ^ Joanna Robinson: When Actors Clash With Fans, Hero Worship Turns to Scorn. Retrieved February 11, 2021 (American English).
  20. ↑ Ryan Lattanzio, Ryan Lattanzio: 'Star Wars' Fans Urge 'Mandalorian' to #FireGinaCarano After Controversial Tweets. In: IndieWire. November 22, 2020, accessed on February 11, 2021 .
  21. ↑ a b 'The Mandalorian' Star Gina Carano Fired Amid Social Media Controversy. February 10, 2021, accessed February 11, 2021 .
  22. ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/12/gina-carano-to-work-with-ben-shapiros-daily-wire-after-disney-firing.html
  23. ↑ https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-shocked-gina-carano-fought-back-as-her-movie-deal-with-daily-wire-goes-viral
  24. ↑ sherdog.com Gina "Conviction" Carano
personal data
SURNAME Carano, Gina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carano, Gina Joy (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION American mixed martial arts fighter
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Dallas , Texas , United States