Gina Ravera
Biography
Gina Ravera is an American actress and classically trained dancer born in San Francisco who began in the early 1990s with guest roles on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Melrose Place and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. In 1993 and 1994 she acted on the CBS crime series Silk Stalkings. She took a starring part in Paul Verhoeven's 1995 erotic drama Showgirls, and in 1997 she appeared in the family drama Soul Food. She appeared in Kiss the Girls (1997). In 1998 she played Josephine Williams in the miniseries The Temptations. She was a regular on Time of Your Life, a Party of Five spin-off, from 1999 to 2000. From 2005 to 2009 she played Irene Daniels on the TNT crime drama The Closer, appearing in its first four seasons. She also had a recurring role on ER from 2006 to 2008 and in 2007 played the wife of Melvin B. Tolson in The Great Debaters, opposite Denzel Washington.
60years old
Turns 61 on May 20in 219 days
- Born San Francisco
- Star sign: TaurusLast day of the sign, on the Gemini cusp
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 17 years1990 to 2007
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Ravera played Irene Daniels on the TNT crime drama The Closer across its first four seasons, from 2005 to 2009, and no other regular cast member left the series while it ran.
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