Biography
Carla Gugino (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress. After appearing in Troop Beverly Hills (1989) and This Boy's Life (1993), she received recognition for her starring roles as Ingrid Cortez in the Spy Kids trilogy (2001–2003), Rebecca Hutman in Night At The Museum (2006), Laurie Roberts in American Gangster (2007), Sally Jupiter in Watchmen (2009), Dr. Vera Gorski in Sucker Punch (2011), Emma Gaines in San Andreas (2015), and Jessie Burlingame in Gerald's Game (2017). Gugino also starr...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Heads of State
2025
as VP Elizabeth Kirk
The UK Prime Minister and US President have a public rivalry that risks their countries' alliance. But when they become targets of a powerful enemy, t...

The Life of Chuck
2025
as News and Commercial Voice (voice)
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes cont...

The Friend
2025
as Elaine
When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creati...

Lisa Frankenstein
2024
as Janet
In 1989, a misunderstood teenager has a high school crush — who just happens to be a handsome corpse! After a set of playfully horrific circumstances ...

Orion and the Dark
2024
as Orion's Mom (voice)
A boy with an active imagination faces his fears on an unforgettable journey through the night with his new friend: a giant, smiling creature named Da...

With/In Volume 2
2022
An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist...

Gunpowder Milkshake
2021
as Madeleine
To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its...

With/In Volume 2
2021
as (segment "Twenty Questions")
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo...

Watch on the Rhine
2021
as Sara
Written and set during the rise of Hitler’s Germany, Watch on the Rhine is a play about an American family, suddenly awakened to the danger threatenin...

Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as Ship Voice (voice)
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...

Elizabeth Harvest
2018
as Claire
The newly married Elizabeth arrives with her new husband, the scientist Henry, at a magnificent house. He tells her that she can do there anything she...

Gerald's Game
2017
as Jessie
When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choic...

The Space Between Us
2017
as Kendra Wyndham
A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.

Wolves
2016
as Jenny Keller
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popula...

Bling
2016
as Catherine (voice)
Lowly theme park mechanic Sam dreams about his childhood sweetheart Sue. With the mistaken belief that only a bling ring can win the girl of his dream...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
as Ship Voice (voice)
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, mode...

San Andreas
2015
as Emma Gaines
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estra...

Match
2014
as Lisa Davis
A Seattle couple travel to New York to interview colorful former dancer Tobi for research on a dissertation about dance. But soon, common niceties and...

Man of Steel
2013
as Kelor (voice)
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he w...
Doubt
2013
as Linda Chapman
Centers on Vincent, a former cop who's now a cunning but charming low-rent lawyer who uses his street smarts to work the system for his clients while ...

Hotel Noir
2012
as Hanna Click
Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occu...

I Melt with You
2011
as Laura
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive ...

New Year's Eve
2011
as Spiritual Dr. Morriset
The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.

Hide
2011
as D.D. Warren
A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.

The Mighty Macs
2011
as Cathy Rush
In the early 70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team has no gym and no uniforms -- an...

Mr. Popper's Penguins
2011
as Amanda
Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins...

Sucker Punch
2011
as Dr. Vera Gorski
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a grou...

Elektra Luxx
2011
as Elektra Luxx
A favor for a woman from her past throws the life of a pregnant, retired porn star into chaos.

Girl Walks Into a Bar
2011
as Francine Driver
A sharp-witted comedy that follows a group of apparent strangers in interlocking stories taking place in ten different bars during the course of one e...

Faster
2010
as Cicero
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.

Tell-Tale
2010
as Femme Fatale
Celebrity photographer Greg Williams together with an impressive cast lead by Carla Gugino, take on the concept of the Femme Fatale in this stylish er...

Tell-Tale
2010
Idea, Producer
Celebrity photographer Greg Williams together with an impressive cast lead by Carla Gugino, take on the concept of the Femme Fatale in this stylish er...

Every Day
2010
as Robin
Ned is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. His work as a writer on an outrageous, semi-pornographic TV show is less than satisfying. His fifteen year ...

Women in Trouble
2009
as Elektra Luxx
A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of cal...

Apocrypha
2009
as Woman
A young boy picks up his father's camera, with which he accidentally films a dying romance between a man and a woman-

The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics
2009
as Self
The history and impact of the graphic novel Watchmen.

Under the Hood
2009
as Sally Jupiter
Stars from the Watchmen movie team up in the amazing live-action/CGI Under the Hood, based on Nite Owl's powerful firsthand account of how the hooded ...

Race to Witch Mountain
2009
as Dr. Alex Friedman
A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also...

Watchmen
2009
as Sally Jupiter / Silk Spectre
In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the mas...

Sparks
2009
as Robin
In this deliciously tart adaptation of a short story by Elmore Leonard, a beautiful young widow’s hilltop mansion has just burned to the ground, and a...

The Unborn
2009
as Janet Beldon
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

Righteous Kill
2008
as Karen Corelli
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; i...

American Gangster
2007
as Laurie Roberts
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American...

Rise: Blood Hunter
2007
as Eve
A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She goes on a personal vendetta against a grou...

Even Money
2007
as Veronica
Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives.

The Lookout
2007
as Janet
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he ...

Night at the Museum
2006
as Rebecca
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army o...

The Life Coach
2005
as Carla
A mockumentary about the rise and fall of Hollywood's life coach to the stars.

Sin City
2005
as Lucille
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it ...

The Singing Detective
2003
as Betty Dark / Hooker
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003
as Ingrid Cortez
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the worl...

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002
as Ingrid Cortez
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to...

The Jimmy Show
2002
as Annie
A failed New Jersey inventor embarks on a career as a standup comic, turns to drink, and labors to keep his family together.

Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature
2001
as Lily
Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads...

The One
2001
as T.K. Law / Massie Walsh
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.

The Center of the World
2001
as Jerri
A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap ...

Spy Kids
2001
as Ingrid Cortez
Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from thei...

A Season for Miracles
1999
as Emilie Thompson
A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's ni...

Judas Kiss
1998
as Coco Chavez
The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.

Judas Kiss
1998
Co-Producer
The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.

Snake Eyes
1998
as Julia Costello
All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend, Naval intelligence...

Jaded
1998
as Megan 'Meg' Harris
When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned tha...

Lovelife
1997
as Amy
Twenty-somethings learn the ups and downs of single life in the 90's as they struggle with commitment, jealousy, and the nightmare of dating a friend ...

Michael
1996
as Bride
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.

The War at Home
1996
as Melissa
Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with h...

Wedding Bell Blues
1996
as Violet
Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still single. When Jasmine, Tanya and Micki decide they'd ...

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
1996
as Delilah (voice)
When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San Francisco, trying t...

Miami Rhapsody
1995
as Leslie
Even though Gwyn Marcus is engaged to her boyfriend, Matt, she is still afraid of commitment. While she admires her parents' loving relationship, she ...

Motorcycle Gang
1994
as Leann Morris
Cal and his family are driving to their new home in California and are terrorized by a motorcycle gang along the highway.

Son in Law
1993
as Rebecca Warner
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feel...

Red Hot
1993
as Valentina
In 1959, a young Soviet musician risks everything to pursue his newfound love of American rock 'n' roll.

This Boy's Life
1993
as Norma
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to b...

A Private Matter
1992
as Mary Beth
The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, spark...

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
1992
as Allison Connors
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his way when he graduates from Phillips Exeter Academ...

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990
as Young Roxy
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to de...

Troop Beverly Hills
1989
as Chica Barnfell
A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.
The Florist
N/A
as Vivien Leigh
It explores Vivien Leigh’s struggle with bipolar disorder in the 1960s, as she prepares to lead the Broadway production of John Gielgud’s Chekhov adap...
Night Electricity
N/A
Described as a psychological drama with thriller elements.
The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth
N/A
Eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, Cliff Booth navigates the studio system in his new role as a fixer.
Winthrop
N/A
A woman puts her life on the line to protect her troubled, enigmatic cousin, Winthrop, who has been targeted and hunted by a powerful supernatural for...