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* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 3 Filmography
* 4 Awards and nominations
* 5 References
* 6 External links
[edit] Early life
Carla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl, an orthodontist father, of Italian descent,[1] and an English-Irish[2] mother described as "Bohemian".[3] Her parents separated when she was two,[4] after which she would travel between her father and half-brother Carl Jr.'s home in Sarasota, and her Paradise, California, home, to which her mother moved her when she was four. She describes her bicoastal childhood, saying, "I lived in a tepee in Northern California and a van in Big Sur. With my dad, I lived in a beautiful house with a swimming pool and a tennis court and went to Europe for the summers. So I feel like I lived two childhoods." She worked as a teenage fashion model, and took acting classes at the suggestion of her aunt, former Let's Make a Deal spokesmodel Carol Merrill.[3] She eventually came to support herself, and with her parents' support, was legally emancipated by the time she was 16.[1]
[edit] Career
Gugino's television work during the late 1980s and early 1990s includes appearances on Saved by the Bell, Who's the Boss?, ALF, Doogie Howser, M.D. and The Wonder Years.
Gugino co-starred with Pauly Shore in the 1992 feature film comedy Son in Law. She subsequently appeared in the video to Bon Jovi's 1994 song "Always".
After playing Michael J. Fox's love interest, Ashley Schaeffer, during the first season of the sitcom Spin City in 1996, appeared in the 1997 art-house film Lovelife. Her 1998 film work includes co-starring with Nicolas Cage in the Brian DePalma Snake Eyes, and appearing in Judas Kiss, which she also co-produced. She appeared in as Dr. Gina Simon during the 1999-2000 final season of Chicago Hope.
In 2001, she appeared as family matriarch Ingrid Cortez in the first Spy Kids film by director Robert Rodriguez (as well as that film's two sequels in 2002 and 2003). That same year she appeared as Jet Li's love interest in the martial arts action thriller The One.
She starred in two short-lived TV series, the ABC crime drama Karen Sisco in 2003, and the CBS science fiction series Threshold in 2005 on CBS. That same year, Gugino appeared as Lucille in the feature film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel, Sin City. The following year, she appeared in Night at the Museum.
Gugino appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Company play After the Fall opposite Six Feet Under's Peter Krause. In late 2006, she began the Off-Broadway play by Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer opposite actress Blythe Danner.[citation needed]
Gugino appeared as Amanda, Vincent Chase's agent, Amanda, a dozen episodes of the cable television series Entourage'. Gugino appeared nude in the May 2007 issue of Allure.[5] That same year she appeared in the feature film American Gangster. The following year, she played the female lead in the serial killer thriller Righteous Kill, opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
Gugino starred in Chicago's Goodman Theater production of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms from January 17 to February 17, 2009, in the role of Abby. Charles Isherood of The New York Times praised Gugino's performance, saying, "Ms. Gugino displays a depth and range of expression that I cannot imagine any other actress achieving with such blazing honesty and wrenching truth. She is simply magnificent."[6] During the first three months of 2009, three feature films premiered featuring Gugino: the thriller The Unborn, the feature film adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, Watchmen, in which Gugino played Sally Jupiter,[7] and the adventure remake Race to Witch Mountain, in which she starred opposite Dwayne Johnson. That April, she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination[citation needed] for Outstanding Actress In a Play for her performance in Desire Under the Elms. Later in November of that year, she appeared as pornographic actress Elektra Luxx in the comedy film Women in Trouble.
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