By Hannah Jane Farron
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Gina L. Gershon (/ˈɡɜːrʃɒn/; born June 10, 1962) is an American actress and singer. She has starred in such films as Cocktail (1988), Red Heat (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound (1996), Face/Off (1997), The Insider (1999), Demonlover (2002), P.S. I Love You (2007), Five Minarets in New York (2010), Killer Joe (2011), and House of Versace (2013). She has also had supporting roles in FX‘s Rescue Me and HBO‘s How to Make It in America. Additionally, she portrayed Jughead’s mom Gladys Jones on The CW teen drama series Riverdale and Lauren Bloom’s mother Jeanie Bloom on the NBC medical series New Amsterdam.
Gina L. Gershon was born in Los Angeles, to Mickey Gershon (née Koppel) an interior decorator, and Stan Gershon, who worked in the import-export business and sales. She was raised in a Jewish family in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. She has an older brother and an older sister.
She has said she always wanted to be an actress, but her career began in music and dance.
She is one of the founding members of the New York-based theater group Naked Angels.
Gershon is regarded as a gay icon for her roles in films such as Bound (in which she played a butch lesbian), Prey for Rock & Roll, and Showgirls (in which she played a bisexual showgirl, and which is regarded as a camp classic). She was ranked #51 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2004.
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