Carla Gugino

Carla Gugino

Carla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to an orthodontist of Italian descent and a mother of English-Irish descent. Her parents separated when she was two, after which she travelled between her father and half-brother Carl Jr.’s home in Florida, and her Paradise, California, home. She took acting classes at the suggestion of her aunt, former Let’s Make a Deal spokesmodel Carol Merrill.

About Carla Gugino in brief

Summary Carla GuginoCarla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to an orthodontist of Italian descent and a mother of English-Irish descent. Her parents separated when she was two, after which she travelled between her father and half-brother Carl Jr.’s home in Florida, and her Paradise, California, home. 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. In film, she appeared in the Shelley Long film Troop Beverly Hills, and co-starred with Pauly Shore in the 1993 romantic comedy Son in Law.

She starred with Nicolas Cage in Brian De Palma’s Snake Eyes, and in Judas Kiss, which she also co-produced. She appeared as family matriarch Ingrid Cortez in the first Spy Kids film in 2001. In 2006, she played Amanda, Vincent Chase’s agent, in a dozen episodes of the cable television series Entourage. In 2009, she starred in the action-horror film Rise: Blood Hunter and the feature film American Gangster. In April, she received an Outstanding Actress Award nomination for her performance in Desire Under Elms.