Gina Gershon

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Gina Gershon (2006)

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 .

Gina Gershon (2011)

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)

Book publications

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gina Gershon in the Notable Names Database (English)
  2. ↑ SXSW 2012 Exclusive Interview: Gina Gershon Talks William Friedkin, Dysfunctional Families and More for Killer Joe
  3. ^ Cast Files into the Mall; Peter Stormare, Gina Gershon and More!
  4. ↑ Gina Gershon writing book about missing cat. In: hollywood.com. December 7, 2012, accessed June 30, 2017 .

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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