Gina Gershon
Gina L. Gershon (born June 10, 1962 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actress and author .
life and career
Gina Gershon comes from a Jewish family and has two siblings, a brother and a sister. Her father was a businessman, her mother an interior designer. Her family moved from San Fernando Valley , California to Beverly Hills , California to help Gina get started with the acting she was already talented for at the time.
She attended Beverly Hills High School there , then studied intermittently at Emerson College in Boston and graduated from New York University .
As an actress, she has worked in small supporting roles since the early 1980s , including in the comedy Pretty in Pink (1986), in which she played alongside James Spader . She only played major supporting roles in the films Red Heat (1988, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi ) and in Cocktail (1988, alongside Tom Cruise , Bryan Brown and Elisabeth Shue ).
Gershon also starred in numerous plays such as Camille , Nanawatai and The Substance of Fire . She was a co-founder of the New York theater company Naked Angels .
In the thriller Bound - Gefesselt (1996) by Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski , Gershon played the lead role of Corky , who has a lesbian affair with her neighbor. For this role she was nominated for the Saturn Award and the MTV Movie Award . She played a bigger role alongside John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in the thriller In the Body of the Enemy (1997). She starred alongside Al Pacino and Russell Crowe in the award-winning film Insider (1999) . She played one of the leading roles alongside Michael Biehn in the thriller Borderline - Unter Mordverdacht (2002) and another in the musical drama Prey for Rock & Roll (2003). In the film Out of Season (2004) followed a leading role alongside Dennis Hopper and Dominique Swain . Since 2004, Gershon's voice can be heard in the cartoon series Tripping the Rift . In 2011 she starred as Sharla Smith alongside Matthew McConaughey and Thomas Haden Church in the dark drama-comedy Killer Joe . In May 2012, Gershon replaced Chelsea Handler in Joe Hahn's thriller and directorial debut Mall - Wrong Time, Wrong Place opposite Vincent D'Onofrio . She plays one of the leading roles in the thriller Deadly Desire (2017) by Jonathan Baker, alongside Nicolas Cage and Faye Dunaway .
In 2007 Gershon and her brother Dann published the children's book Camp Creepy Time , whose hero Einstein P. Fleed is sent to an unusual, because creepy, holiday camp. The 224-page book was published by Putnam Juvenile. Gershon's first adult book, In Search of Cleo: How I Found My Pussy and Lost My Mind , based on the true story of finding her cat, was published in 2012.
Filmography (selection)
- 1986: Pretty in Pink
- 1988: Red Heat
- 1988: Cocktail
- 1989: Suffering Bastards
- 1989: The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1991: Deadly Revenge - The Brooklyn Massacre (Out for Justice)
- 1991: Voodoo Dawn
- 1991: Out for Justice
- 1992: Sinatra (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 1992: The Player
- 1992: Miss Rose White
- 1993: Joey Breaker
- 1993: Love Matters
- 1993: Melrose Place (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 1995: Showgirls
- 1995: Best of the Best 3 - No Turning Back
- 1996: Bound - Bound (Bound)
- 1997: Ellen (TV series, episode The Outing )
- 1997: Without Conscience (This World, then the Fireworks)
- 1997: Touch
- 1997: In the body of the enemy (Face / Off)
- 1998: Lulu On The Bridge
- 1998: One Tough Cop
- 1998: Palmetto - stupid people don't die out (Palmetto)
- 1998: I'm Losing You
- 1998: Legalese (TV film)
- 1998: Prague Duet
- 1998: Black & White - Dangerous Suspicion (Black and White)
- 1999: Insider (The Insider)
- 1999: The Girl and the Photographer (Guinevere)
- 1999: Snoops - Charming and dangerous ( Snoops , TV series, all episodes)
- 2001: Driven
- 2001: Picture Claire ( Lost in Toronto )
- 2002: Demonlover
- 2002: Borderline - Under suspicion of murder (Borderline)
- 2003: Prey for Rock & Roll
- 2004: Out of Season
- 2004: 3-Way
- 2004: Tripping the Rift (TV series, 13 episodes)
- 2005: Category 7 - The End of the World (Category 7: The End of the World)
- 2005: The dream date ( One Last Thing ...)
- 2005: Crossing Jordan - pathologist with profile ( Crossing Jordan , TV series, episode 4x19)
- 2006: Man About Town
- 2006: Blitzlichtgewitter (Delirious)
- 2006: Kettle of Fish
- 2007: What Love Is
- 2007: PS I Love You (PS I Love You)
- 2007: Psych (TV series, episode 2x01)
- 2008: Beer for My Horses
- 2010: Five Minarets in New York (New York'ta Beş Minare)
- 2010: Love Ranch
- 2010: La Linea 2 (Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright)
- 2011: Killer Joe
- 2012: LOL
- 2012: Breathless
- 2013: House of Versace - A life dedicated to fashion
- 2013: Anger Management (TV series, episode 2x43)
- 2013: Hunt for the Labyrinth Killer
- 2013–2014: Cleaners (TV series, 17 episodes)
- 2014: The Scribbler
- 2014: Mall - Wrong Time, Wrong Place
- 2014: The Lookalike
- 2014: Me
- 2014: Community (TV series, episode 5x09)
- 2015: Glee (TV series, episode 6x08)
- 2015: Z Nation (TV series, 3 episodes)
- 2015: Staten Island Summer
- 2015-2017: Red Oaks (TV series, 15 episodes)
- 2016: A Message from Melania Trump (short film)
- 2016: My Dead Boyfriend
- 2017: Bad Kids of Crestview Academy
- 2017: Lost Cat Corona
- 2017: Crashing (TV series, episode 1x02)
- 2017: Permission
- 2017: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 2017: Deadly Desire (Inconceivable)
- since 2017: Lost in Oz (TV series, speaking role)
- 2017: 9/11
- 2018: Shotgun
- 2018: The Sex Pact (Blockers)
- 2018: Younger (TV series, episode 5x06)
- 2018: The Little Mermaid
- 2018: American Dresser
- 2018: After Everything (Shotgun)
- since 2018: Riverdale (TV series)
- 2019: The Good Fight (TV series, episode 3x06)
- 2019: Rotschühchen und die Seven Dwarfs ( Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs , speaking role)
- 2020: The Mimic
- 2020: New Amsterdam (TV series)
Book publications
- 2007: Camp Creepy Time; Putnam Juvenile, ISBN 978-0-399-24737-8
- 2012: In Search of Cleo: How I Found My Pussy and Lost My Mind; Gotham, ISBN 978-1592407668
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gina Gershon in the Notable Names Database (English)
- ↑ SXSW 2012 Exclusive Interview: Gina Gershon Talks William Friedkin, Dysfunctional Families and More for Killer Joe
- ^ Cast Files into the Mall; Peter Stormare, Gina Gershon and More!
- ↑ Gina Gershon writing book about missing cat. In: hollywood.com. December 7, 2012, accessed June 30, 2017 .
Web links
- Gina Gershon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gina Gershon in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Official website (English)
- Gina Gershon at filmreference.com (English)
- Gina Gershon in the German dubbing index
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gershon, Gina |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gershon, Gina L. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actress and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California , United States |