![]() Like most thirtysomething actresses, Carla has moved on to mom roles, most notably in the Spy Kids series, but that hasn't stopped her from dropping her top, as she did to jaw-dropping effect in arty black-and-white in Sin City (2005). In the crime thriller Judas Kiss (1998), Carla’s left boobie popped out during a steamy sexy scene. Her harrowing depiction of an attack victim is redeemed by the ample nudity. But her breast performance has to be in Jaded (1996). That led to appearances on the TV drama Chicago Hope and the sitcom Spin City, as well as roles in Snake Eyes (1998) and The Singing Detective (2002), in which she played another prostitute. Carla played the typical teenage roles and got a taste of stardom opposite Pauly Shore in Son in Law (1993). She moved to TV, landing a supporting role on the hit nighttime soap opera Falcon Crest. What she lacks in height she more than makes up for in width-around her bountiful bosom. ![]() Carla started modeling at fifteen but was deemed too small at five-feet-five-inches. We are supposed to be actors, aren't we?" She laughs out loud, but you can see she's not all that amused.Director Wayne Wang chose not to give Carla Gugino the lead as a prostitute in his kinky The Center of the World (2001) because he "was worried that she would eat the movie up with sexuality." Of course he cast the voluptuous beauty as another hooker. It was like, 'Wait, she was a mom in Spy Kids, but a lesbian parole officer in Sin City?' It's a bizarre conundrum for people that I don't always get. "I didn't realize the effect it would have until people were becoming confused. For her star turn in the Elektra Luxx series, for example, the career brunette wears a long blond wig. It's this kind of thinking that has been Gugino's blessing and curse: Having carved out a rare niche for herself as a working character actress, she's largely disappeared into her roles, some of which were not very big to begin with. Related: The Hottest Naked Women and Nude Ladies of Esquire "The idea was that if we have a very solid piece of writing and a very small crew, and people who are all at the top of their games, we could make cool movies that you can't make in Hollywood right now." "What's cool is that all these films really started as an experiment," Gugino will later say. Later today she will go back to filming their latest, Hotel Noir, with Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Malin Akerman, and Kevin Connolly. She shares the place with her longtime boyfriend, as she prefers to call him, Sebastian Gutierrez, who directed Gugino and a recurring ensemble of their beautiful and talented friends in the Elektra Luxx films, and also more recently in the full-length Web movie Girl Walks into a Bar. ![]() By sixteen she was legally emancipated, working steadily in Hollywood.Īnd now she's leading the way across the grass on gold wedges to a table in the yard of a rambling house behind a high fence that seems more fanciful than real, like the set for an adult fairy tale, art-directed by Diego Rivera. Her aunt is the iconic spokesmodel Carol Merrill from Let's Make a Deal at her urging Gugino moved to Malibu one summer and tried an acting class. ![]() While attending La Jolla High School, she was recruited into the corps of Elite Petite models. Eventually, mom remarried and settled in San Diego. Forty years old, Gugino is the daughter of an Italian orthodontist and a self-styled bohemian who fled the bonds of marriage to live for some time with her young daughter in a tepee by a river.
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