Gina
Gershon (born
June 10, 1962) is an American film and television actress, known
for her roles in the films Cocktail (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound
(1996) and Face/Off (1997). Gina Gershon was born in
Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Mickey Koppel,
an interior decorator, and Stan Gershon, who worked in import/export
business and sales. Gershon is Jewish, and has a brother, Dann,
and a sister, Tracy. She attended Beverly Hills High School with
Lenny Kravitz. After high school, Gershon
moved to Boston, where she attended Emerson College.
A 2008 Vanity Fair article linked her romantically
with former President Bill Clinton. Speaking on the U.S. television
show Live with Regis
and Kelly Ripa on June 9, she said, "It is such a crazy, outrageous
lie.... I met him three times at events. It disturbed me on so many
levels. I felt I had to stand up and say the truth." Gershon
has dated hotel owner Sean McPherson, wealthy entrepreneur Jay Penske,
actors John Cusack and Owen Wilson, and musician Beck
Hansen
Gina Gershon moved to New
York City from Boston to attend NYU, where she studied drama and
child psychology. She
also
attended Circle
in the Square Professional Theater School in New York, working with
David Mamet and Harold Guskin. She is one of the founding members
of the New York based theater group Naked Angels.
Her first acting venues were stage appearances
in Camille and The Substance of Fire. Her break came with a bit part
in 1986's Pretty
in Pink, and then a bigger part in Cocktail with Tom Cruise. Gershon
also worked in TV, with a recurring role on Melrose Place. She won
critical acclaim for her portrayal of Nancy Sinatra in the made-for-TV
bio-pic, Sinatra. In 1996, she played Corky, an ex-con who gets mixed
up in a lesbian affair with Jennifer Tilly, in the mobster flick
Bound. The following year she co-starred with John Travolta and Nicolas
Cage in Face/Off.
Gershon is regarded as a gay icon because
of her roles in movies such as Bound (in which she played a butch
lesbian), Prey For
Rock & Roll and Showgirls (which is regarded as a
camp classic). At the same time, her sultry good looks and frequent
nude appearances in other films have also gained her a substantial
heterosexual male fan base. She was ranked #51 on the Maxim Hot 100
Women of 2004.
Gina Gershon played Jew's
harp on I Can't Decide,
a song on the Scissor Sisters 2006 release Ta-Dah. She also played
Jew's
harp on the song I Do It For Your Love, Paul Simon's
collaboration with Herbie Hancock on his album Possibilities. On
television, she has recurring roles on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm
(as a Hasidic drycleaner), Rescue Me, and the U.S. dramedy series
Ugly Betty (as Italian cosmetics mogul Fabia, the rival of Wilhelmina
Slater). She also has served as the voiceover for Major League Baseball's
I Live For This promotional campaign. She and her brother Dann are
the authors of the children's book Camp Creepy Time.
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Anna Paquin
Actress
It was in New Zealand in 1991 that
Anna Paquin became an actress by chance. Director Jane
Campion was looking for a little girl to play a key role
in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand, and a newspaper
advertisement was run announcing an open audition.
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Claire
Danes Movie Actress
When she is not working, Claire Danes likes
spending time on her school studies, especially the humanities and science.
She tries to keep up her interest in dance, and wants to continue with
her new enthusiasm for surfing while she's living in Los Angeles.
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Cobie
Smulders Television Actress
As a child Cobie Smulders wanted to be either a doctor or a marine biologist
but started to gain an interest in acting in high school, appearing in
several school productions. Discovered by a modelling agency in her teens,
she started to model internationally, including in locations such as Paris,
Japan, Milan, Greece, and Germany.
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Courtney
Thorne Smith TV Actress
Courtney Thorne Smith first appeared as Stacy Hamilton on Fast Times, the
television series spin-off of the successful teen movie Fast Times at Ridgemont
High.
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Jennifer
Aniston Movie and Television Actress
In 2000, after a widely publicized
battle with NBC, Aniston and her fellow cast members negotiated
a salary of $750,000 per episode. The show won its first
Emmy for its 8th season in 2002. That same year, Aniston
received a Best Actress Emmy for her role as Rachel. Jennifer
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Eva Mendes
Model and Actress
Eve Mendes attended California State
University, Northridge and majored in marketing. Her debut
in acting came because she needed a little extra spending
money and appeared as an extra on various films. One day
she caught the eye of an agent who convinced her to pursue
acting more steadily. Eva
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Movie
Actress Keira Knightley
She was born in Teddington, south-west
London. Her name would become Keira as her Hollywood career
took off, the change shamelessly breaking the golden rule
of "I before E except after C" but making the
name more easily pronounceable on a worldwide basis. Keira
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