Carla Gugino

At 52 years old, Carla Gugino has this physical status:

Carla Gugino (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress.

She is best known for her appearances as Ingrid Cortez in the Spy Kids trilogy (2001-2003), Ritchie Roberts' wife Laurie in American Gangster (2007), Dr. Sally Jupiter in Watchmen (2009).

Vera Gorski in Sucker Punch (2011) and as the lead characters in the television series Karen Sisco, Threshold, The Haunting of Hill House, and Jett.

Gugino's film career includes performances in Son in Law (1993), Sin City (2005), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), San Andreas (2015), and Gerald's Game (both 2017), as well as the voice roles of Kelor in the DC Extended Universe.

Gugino has appeared in the television series Political Animals (2012), Wayward Pines (2015), Roadies (2016), and Jett (2019).

Early life

Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an Italian-born orthodontist, and a mother of English-Irish descent named "Bohemian." When she was two, her parents separated, with her father traveling 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.

"I lived in a tepee in Northern California and a van in Big Sur," she recalled. I spent my summers in a gorgeous house with a swimming pond and a tennis court, and with my dad, I spent in a stunning house with a swimming pond and a tennis court. So I feel like I lived two childhoods." She acted as a teen fashion model and attended acting lessons at her aunt's behest, former Let's Make a Deal spokesmodel Carol Merrill. She eventually came to defend herself, and with her parents' help, was legally emancipated by the time she was 16 years old.

Personal life

Gugino has been involved with Sebastián Gutiérrez, her collaborator, since 1996. Gugino said in 2009 that they had no plans to marry, and that "marriage isn't important to us." We like being boyfriend and girlfriend; there's something sexy and amusing about it. We're really excited about this one: "There's nothing holding us here other than our desire to be together."

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Career

Gugino's television work during the late 1980s and early 1990s included appearances on Good Morning, Miss Bliss, Who's the Boss?, ALF, Doogie Howser, M.D., The Wonder Years and a recurring role on Falcon Crest. In film, Gugino appeared in the Shelley Long film Troop Beverly Hills (1989), and she co-starred with Pauly Shore in the romantic comedy Son in Law (1993). She appeared in the video to Bon Jovi's 1994 song "Always".

In 1995, Gugino appeared as Nan St. George (later the Duchess of Trevenick) with Greg Wise and James Frain in the BBC miniseries The Buccaneers, an adaptation of Edith Wharton's last novel. She played Ashley Schaeffer, Michael J. Fox's character's love interest, during the first season of the sitcom Spin City in 1996. She played opposite Nicolas Cage in Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes, and in Judas Kiss, which she also co-produced. She appeared as Dr. Gina Simon during the final season of the television medical drama Chicago Hope (1999–2000).

In 2001, she appeared as family matriarch Ingrid Cortez in the first Spy Kids film (as well as the 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: ABC's Elmore Leonard crime drama Karen Sisco in 2003, and CBS' science fiction series Threshold in 2005. 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 the film Night at the Museum as Ben Stiller's love interest.

Gugino performed in the Roundabout Theatre Company play After the Fall opposite Peter Krause. In late 2006, she appeared in an Off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer opposite Blythe Danner.

Gugino appeared as Amanda, Vincent Chase's agent, in a dozen episodes of the cable television series Entourage. Gugino appeared in the May 2007 issue of Allure. That same year she appeared in the action-horror film Rise: Blood Hunter and the feature film American Gangster. The following year, she played the female lead in the thriller Righteous Kill, opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.

From January 17 to February 17, 2009, Gugino starred as Abby in Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Charles Isherwood 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." During the first three months of 2009, three feature films premiered featuring Gugino: the thriller The Unborn, the film Watchmen, in which she played Sally Jupiter, 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 for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her performance in Desire Under the Elms. Later, in November of that year, she appeared as a pornographic actress in the comedy film Women in Trouble, which spawned a sequel in 2010, Elektra Luxx, titled after her character.

In 2011, Gugino appeared as Madame Vera Gorsky in Zack Snyder's action-fantasy film Sucker Punch alongside Abbie Cornish and Emily Browning. Gugino sang a duet with co-star Oscar Isaac, which appeared in the end credits and in the film's soundtrack. She also guest starred on the fourth season of Californication as Abby Rhodes, Hank Moody's attorney and love interest.

In mid-2012, Gugino had a lead role as Susan Berg, a Washington, D.C., investigative reporter, on the USA Network's miniseries Political Animals. In 2015, she had a lead role in the disaster film San Andreas, in which she once again starred opposite Dwayne Johnson.

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