Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1271
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Gina Gershon represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 40 years in, and Gina is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Gina Gershon appears in 29 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gina. Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, crime, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eli Roth, Gina Gershon, Jesse Quinones and others, Gina Gershon helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019) as Regina (voice) · The Insider (1999) as Helen Caperelli · P.S. I Love You (2007) as Sharon
Career snapshot
Ranked #1271 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
29
1985–2025
Career length
40 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
Most frequent director
Eli Roth
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Eli Roth
Most common genre
Comedy
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.6
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1990s
7.0 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. The Insider, Face/Off, The Player — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
7.0
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1980s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Cocktail, Red Heat, Pretty in Pink.
Most productive era
2020s
11 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.52 films | 7.03 films | 5.83 films | 5.74 films | 5.32 films |
| Action | 6.41 film | 6.72 films | 5.11 film | — | 6.23 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.03 films | — | 6.51 film | 6.62 films |
| Comedy | 6.22 films | 7.21 film | 5.32 films | 6.34 films | 5.45 films |
| Crime | 6.41 film | 6.93 films | — | 6.51 film | 6.62 films |
| Romance | 6.43 films | — | 7.21 film | 6.04 films | 6.11 film |
| Horror | — | — | — | — | 6.52 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1985Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Dancer (uncredited).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2025High Rollers
The current state of the argument, as Amelia Decker.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
29 of 29 films
as Regina (voice)
Directed by Unknown
as Sharon
Directed by Richard LaGravenese
as Helen Caperelli
Directed by Michael Mann
as Whitney Gersh
Directed by Robert Altman
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Regina (voice)
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs (2019)
Performance score7.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Regina (voice) gives Gina Gershon a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Sharon
P.S. I Love You (2007)
Performance score7.3
P.S. I Love You asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sharon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Helen Caperelli
The Insider (1999)
Performance score7.3
The Insider asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Helen Caperelli is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Sasha Hassler
Face/Off (1997)
Performance score7.3
Face/Off asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Sasha Hassler is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Regina (voice)
Start here. Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs is the clearest statement of what Gina Gershon does — accessible, 92 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gina at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Player (1992)
Keeps the comedy register of Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs but asks for a colder reading of it.
Face/Off (1997)
Keeps the crime register of The Player but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Insider (1999)
A deliberate change of key after Face/Off — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
P.S. I Love You (2007)
Keeps the drama register of The Insider but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Eli Roth
Director
2 films together
Notably Thanksgiving
Alan Metter
Director
1 film together
Notably Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Howard Deutch
Director
1 film together
Notably Pretty in Pink
Walter Hill
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Heat
Roger Donaldson
Director
1 film together
Notably Cocktail
John Flynn
Director
1 film together
Notably Out for Justice
Robert Altman
Director
1 film together
Notably The Player
John Woo
Director
1 film together
Notably Face/Off
Michael Mann
Director
1 film together
Notably The Insider
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Driven
Mike Binder
Director
1 film together
Notably Man About Town
Richard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together
Notably P.S. I Love You
Neal Brennan
Director
1 film together
Notably The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
William Friedkin
Director
1 film together
Notably Killer Joe
Kay Cannon
Director
1 film together
Notably Blockers
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably Rifkin's Festival
Jesse Quinones
Director
1 film together
Notably Cagefighter: Worlds Collide
Gina Gershon
Director
1 film together
Notably With/In Volume 2
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Eli Roth
Director
2 films together · 6.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ThanksgivingMichael Mann
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The InsiderRichard LaGravenese
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
P.S. I Love YouJohn Woo
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Face/OffRobert Altman
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The PlayerHoward Deutch
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pretty in PinkJesse Quinones
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Cagefighter: Worlds CollideWilliam Friedkin
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Killer JoeWalter Hill
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red HeatKay Cannon
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BlockersJohn Flynn
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Out for JusticeRoger Donaldson
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CocktailAlan Metter
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Girls Just Want to Have FunWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rifkin's FestivalNeal Brennan
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell HardMike Binder
Director
1 film together · 5.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Man About TownRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DrivenGina Gershon
Director
1 film together · 4.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
With/In Volume 2Six degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
P.S. I Love You
as Sharon
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Regina (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Regina (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
as Self
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Regina (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Gina Gershon has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
40 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Regina (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Player
as Whitney Gersh
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Regina (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Player
as Whitney Gersh
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Face/Off
as Sasha Hassler
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
High Rollers
as Amelia Decker
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
as Regina (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Red Heat
as Cat Manzetti
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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