Carla Gugino

Carla Gugino
Gugino at the 2013 Miami International Film Festival
Born	(1971-08-29) August 29, 1971 (age 45) Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1988–present

Carla Gugino (/ɡʊˈdʒiːnoʊ/; Italian: [ɡuˈdʒiːno]; born August 29, 1971) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Ingrid Cortez in the Spy Kids trilogy, Sally Jupiter in Watchmen (2009), Dr. Vera Gorski in Sucker Punch (2011), and as the lead characters of the television series Karen Sisco and Threshold. Her feature film work includes starring roles in Son in Law (1993), Sin City (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011) and San Andreas (2015), as well as Kelor in the DC Extended Universe. Gugino has had lead roles in the TV series Political Animals (2012), Wayward Pines (2015), and Roadies (2016).

Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist of Italian descent, and a mother of English-Irish descent described as "Bohemian". Her parents separated when she was two, after which she traveled 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 has said of her upbringing, "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. She eventually came to support herself, and with her parents' support, was legally emancipated by the time she was 16.