Gina Gershon

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Biography

Since making her uncredited debut as a dancer in _Beatlemania . "Camp Creepy Time" recently was optioned by DreamWorks, which plans to turn it into a movie. In 2008, she also released "In Search Of Cleo", a CD featuring nine songs which she wrote or co-wrote.

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·soundtrack·producer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 10 June 1962
  • Place of birth
  • Los Angeles
  • Education
  • Emerson College·New York University Tisch School of the Arts·Circle in the Square Theatre School

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Declined to recreate the Sharon Stone leg crossing scene for director Paul Verhoeven in the movie Showgirls .

Was a California Valley Girl, moved to New York and tried to change her image.

BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

She is a founding member of the New York based theatre group, Naked Angels.

When she was a little girl, she almost drowned looking for starfish on the beach.

She is the youngest of 3 children.

Attended high school with Lenny Kravitz.

Played Lenny Kravitz s girlfriend in his video for "Again".

Before transferring to NYU, she attended Emerson College in Boston, alma mater of Henry Winkler and Jay Leno.

Appeared in the 1984 video for Hello Again by The Cars.

Recently sang with ex-Guns N Roses members Slash , Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum at the Sundance Festival (Jan 21st 2003).

Actress Helen Slater is one of her friends; she helped her found The Naked Angels. Another friend was Jenifer Estess.

Younger sister of Dann Gershon and Tracy Gershon , who is a judge on "Nashville Star" on the USA Network.

Recently said that she would love to run Playboy Magazine. She had offered to do a pictoral for them, but was disappointed with how Playboy wanted her to pose and withdrew her offer. When asked what shed like to see done differently, she said that the magazine should return to a "hip 70s style".

Co-wrote songs with Linda Perry for Prey for Rock & Roll .

Attended Beverly Hills High School; the same school as Angelina Jolie , Michael Klesic , Nicolas Cage , Lenny Kravitz , David Schwimmer , Jonathan Silverman , Rhonda Fleming , Jackie Cooper , Rob Reiner , Bahar Soomekh , Antonio Sabato Jr. , Pauly Shore , Michael Tolkin , Betty White , Corbin Bernsen , Elizabeth Daily , Albert Brooks , and Crispin Glover.

She graduated Beverly Hills High School in 1980. While there, she starred in a production of "The Music Man".

Her last name was misspelled as "Gersohn" on her birth certificate.

The look of Electra Ovilo, a character from Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira is based on her.

Niece of Jack Elliott.

Cousin of Alan Elliott.

Her favorite movies that shes been in are Bound and The Player .

Went to the same school as "All My Children" s Jamie Luner.

Release of the book, "Camp Creepy Time: The Adventures of Einstein P. Fleet" by Gina and her older brother, Dann Gershon.

(April 2004) Guest-starring on "The Practice" .

(June 2008) On Broadway in the revival of Boeing Boeing as the Italian bombshell air hostess.

Good friend of Mario Cantone , and Denis Leary , at Emerson College.

Quotes

[on Showgirls (1995) ] "I decided to make my part campy because I,initially thought that it was going to be really dark and really,intense and then it just turned out to be completely different. So,instead of going in that direction, I decided to make it so that drag,queens would want to dress as my character on Halloween".

All my roles are different parts of my personality. Hannah is the,caretaker part of me, the psychologist in Prague Duet (1998) . . .

Being the control freak that I am, I want to know everything beforehand.

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