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You’ve got to have something when you co-star in one of the most laughable, disastrous feature films of all times yet come bouncing out of it with a career. This is precisely what happened to auburn-haired, pouty-lipped, smoky-eyed Gina Gershon, who uttered some embarrassing screen dialogue as Cristal Connors, the strip dancing queen in “Showgirls” (1995). Immediately after, while everyone else from above the line was ducking for cover, she went and filmed “Bound” (1996), playing an ex-con lesbian who teams with a mob moll (Jennifer Tilly) to steal millions from the hoods.

Gershon first won notice within the theater world as a co-founder of Naked Angels, a company of actors (including Rob Morrow, Sarah Jessica Parker) and writers (like Frank Pugliese, Jon Robin Baitz). Around the same time, she made her feature film debut with a small role in “Pretty in Pink” (1986) and her TV-movie debut in “Stark: The Mirror Image” (CBS, 1986). It took another two years before Gershon won a film role that anyone really noticed, playing a socialite who seduces Tom Cruise in “Cocktail”. That same year, she had a solid co-starring role opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Red Heat”, in which she played an ex-hooker. She continued to appear in small roles including one in John Sayles’ “City of Hope” (1991) and as a nasty development executive in Robert Altman’s “The Player” (1992). Before landing “Showgirls”, Gershon had her widest exposure in the 1992 CBS miniseries “Sinatra”, in which she was the singer’s first wife and mother of his children.

• Born:
  on 06/10/1962 in Los Angeles, California
• Job Titles:
  Actor

Significant Others

• Companion: Damien Loeb. dated in spring 2000
• Companion: David Blaine. no longer together
• Companion: Sean MacPherson. have had on-again, off-again relationship; reportedly dating again as of late 2001

Education

• Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, California
• Circle in the Square Professional Theater School, New York, New York
• New York University, New York, New York
• American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, California

Milestones

• — Cast opposite Ben Affleck and Rebecca Romijn in “Man About Town,” the indie feature set in the world of Hollywood; written and directed by Mike Binder (lensed 2004)
• — Will appear opposite George Clooney and Matt Damon in “Syriana” (lensed 2004)
• 1986 Made TV debut in CBS movie, “Stark: Mirror Image”
• 1986 Made feature film debut in “Pretty in Pink”
• 1988 Had first substantial role in a feture, “Red Heat”
• 1992 Played Frank Sinatra’s first wife, Nancy, in CBS miniseries “Sinatra”
• 1995 Co-starred in the disastrous “Showgirls”
• 1996 Bounced back as star of “Bound”
• 1997 Had featured role as Nicolas Cage’s love interest in “Face/Off”
• 1998 Co-starred as an actress accused of murder in the TNT movie “Legalese”
• 1998 Had supporting role as a mobster’s mistress in “One Tough Cop”
• 1999 Debut as a series regular in “Snoops” (ABC), playing a female private detective
• 2001 Broadway debut in the role of Sally Bowles in the acclaimed revival of “Cabaret”; returned to the role in late 2001
• 2001 Played the ex-wife of Sylvester Stallone’s character in “Driven”
• 2003 Co-starred with Drea de Matteo in “Prey for Rock & Roll” which centers around an all-girl rock and roll band
• Founding member of Naked Angels theater company in New York