| BIOGRAPHY
Sultry, dark-eyed, brunette leading actress Gina Gershon mixes
a muscular toughness with her seductive femininity. Born the youngest
of five children, raised in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley,
Gershon gets her exotic looks from her French, Russian, and Dutch
heritage.
After high school, she decided she wanted a more sophisticated
image than those usually attributed to Valley Girls like herself
and so moved to the Big Apple, to earn a bachelor of arts degree
at New York University. While in New York, she studied acting
with such well-known teachers as Sandra Seacat, David Mamet, and
Harold Guskin. She started out in theater and worked on both coasts.
Since the mid-'80s, Gershon has carved out a living as a reliable
character actress on both the big and the small screens. Her most
notable role on the tube was that of Nancy Sinatra, the famous
wife of Old Blue Eyes himself, in the CBS miniseries Sinatra (1994).
Gershon made her feature film debut playing a small role opposite
Molly Ringwald in 1986's Pretty in Pink, and graduated to the
jucier role of of Coral opposite Tom Cruise in Cocktail (1988).
Through the 1990s, Gershon vascillated between high-brow and
low-brow fare, the former exemplified by her memorable turns in
John Sayles's City of Hope (1991), Robert Altman's The Player
(1992), and Michael Mann's The Insider (1999); the latter, by
her gleeful, scenery-chewing work in Best of the Best 3 and the
infamous Showgirls (both 1995).
Gershon's signature role, however, was a synthesis of B-movie
pulp and indie smarts, courtesy of the Wachowski brothers' twisty
1996 neo-noir Bound. Cast as a woman falling in love with an abusive
gangster's moll, Gershon was able to radiate an intelligence,
sexuality, and power not afforded her by previous scripts, and
the lead part would go a long way in establishing her screen persona
into the new millenium.
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FILMOGRAPHY
• 3 Way (2004)
• Rocked with Gina Gershon (2004)
• Demonlover (2003)
• Prey for Rock and Roll (2003)
• Borderline (2002)
• Driven (2001)
• Picture Claire (2001)
• Guinevere (1999)
• I'm Losing You (1999)
• The Insider (1999)
• Lies & Whispers (1998)
• Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
• One Tough Cop (1998)
• Palmetto (1998)
• Face/Off (1997)
• This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
• Touch (1997)
• Bound (1996)
• Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995)
• Showgirls (1995)
• Flinch (1994)
• Love Matters (1993)
• Joey Breaker (1992)
• The Player (1992)
• Sinatra (1992)
• Voodoo Dawn (1990)
• Cocktail (1988)
• Red Heat (1988)
• Sweet Revenge (1987)
• 3:15 - The Moment of Truth (1986)
• Pretty in Pink (1986) |
