Gina Joy Carano was born on April 16,1982 and is an American actress and former mixed martial artist.
44 Facts About Gina Carano
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Gina Carano's popularity led to her being called the "face of women's MMA", although Carano rejected this title.
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Gina Carano portrayed Cara Dune in the first two seasons of the Disney+ space Western series The Mandalorian from 2019 to 2020.
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Gina Carano was born in Dallas County, Texas, and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, the daughter of Dana Joy Cason and casino executive and former professional football player Glenn Gina Carano.
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Gina Carano was raised by her mother after her parents divorced when Gina was seven.
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Gina Carano has said that her family celebrates "an Italian festival" every year, though she is of a "small percentage of Italian" descent.
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Gina Carano graduated from Trinity Christian High School in Las Vegas where she led the girls' basketball team to a state title.
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Gina Carano attended the University of Nevada, Reno for a year and then University of Nevada, Las Vegas for three years, majoring in psychology.
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Gina Carano started her career in the sport of Muay Thai.
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Gina Carano faced Elaina Maxwell at Strikeforce: Triple Threat on December 8,2006.
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Gina Carano proved critics wrong when she defeated Maxwell for the second time; the first victory coming in a Muay Thai bout.
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Gina Carano fought on the February 10,2007 Showtime EliteXC card, defeating Julie Kedzie via unanimous decision in what was called the "Fight of the Night".
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Gina Carano fought on the September 15,2007 Showtime EliteXC card, where she defeated Tonya Evinger via rear-naked choke for her first career win by submission.
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Gina Carano impressed critics by holding her own on the ground before submitting Evinger late in the first round.
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Gina Carano defeated former HOOKnSHOOT Champion Kaitlin Young at EliteXC: Primetime on May 31,2008.
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Gina Carano assured critics that she would be able to make weight since she had hired a nutritionist to help with her dieting.
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At the weigh-in for the Kobold fight on October 3,2008, Gina Carano weighed in at 142.75 pounds on her first attempt.
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The towel was removed, and on her third attempt, Gina Carano weighed 141 pounds and successfully made weight.
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Gina Carano worked her opportunities by hitting Kobold at every turn whenever the fighters separated while opening a huge gash on the inside of her opponent's eyebrow in the first round.
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Gina Carano lost the fight against Cyborg by TKO at 4:59 in the first round, giving her first-ever loss in her professional MMA career.
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Gina Carano's return was formally announced in February 2011, and Strikeforce announced at its April 9,2011, event in San Diego that Gina Carano would make her return against Sarah D'Alelio on June 18, during the Overeem vs Werdum Strikeforce event in Dallas.
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Later, it became public that Gina Carano was medically cleared by the Athletic Commission but was removed from the card for other reasons.
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Gina Carano has not fought since August 2009 and is not scheduled for any upcoming events.
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Gina Carano is still under contract with the UFC through her old Strikeforce contract and has four fights remaining on that contract.
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Gina Carano appeared as "Crush" on the NBC show American Gladiators, in which she starred in the workout video of the show along with Monica Carlson, Jennifer Widerstrom, Michael O'Hearn, Tanoai Reed and Don "Hollywood" Yates.
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Gina Carano is featured in the Michael Jai White film Blood and Bone.
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In September 2009, Gina Carano landed the leading role in the spy thriller Haywire, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Gina Carano described her knockout fight with co-star Michael Fassbender:.
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In February 2012, Gina Carano was cast in In the Blood, an action thriller directed by John Stockwell.
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In 2012, Gina Carano was cast as the lead in an all-female ensemble action film, tentatively titled The ExpendaBelles, that would have been part of The Expendables film franchise.
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Gina Carano co-starred in the 2015 film Extraction, and she played Angel Dust in the 2016 film Deadpool.
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Gina Carano portrayed the character Cara Dune with a first appearance in the fourth episode of the first season titled "Chapter 4: Sanctuary".
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In May 2021, Gina Carano appeared as a guest on an episode of the show Running Wild with Bear Grylls.
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In November 2021, Gina Carano was tapped to play a secret service agent in My Son Hunter, a biopic on Hunter Biden directed by Robert Davi.
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In late 2020, Gina Carano clashed with activists on Twitter, who criticized her lack of public support for the Black Lives Matter movement, leading to accusations of racism.
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Gina Carano later apologized and removed them, saying that The Mandalorian actor Pedro Pascal had helped her understand the use of preferred pronouns.
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In February 2021, Gina Carano shared an Instagram post that compared "hating someone for their political views" to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust and included an image taken during the Lviv pogroms.
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Shortly afterward, Lucasfilm stated that Gina Carano was no longer employed by the company, saying that "her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable".
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Gina Carano's posting of a series of tweets in which she mocked the use of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States was cited by Lucasfilm as well as her repeated belief of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
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Gina Carano was defended by The Mandalorian co-star Bill Burr, who described her as "an absolute sweetheart" and criticized her firing.
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Gina Carano was profiled in a feature story for the ESPN series E:60.
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Gina Carano was voted "Hottest Woman In America" by Big Biz Magazine in the Spring 2008 issue.
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Gina Carano is one of the cover athletes along with Serena Williams for the October 19,2009, edition of ESPN The Magazines Body Issue.
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Gina Carano was a nominee for the 2013 Critics Choice Awards for best actress in an action movie for Haywire.