Top Facts About Gina Carano, The Beautiful But Deadly

Long before performing roles in blockbuster movies, Gina Carano was a professional fighter. She competed in EliteXC and Strikeforce before her retirement in 2009. Today Carano is best known for her roles in Fast & Furious 6 and Deadpool. Her last notable role was in the praised television series The Mandalorian portraying Cara Dune. 

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fact about Gina Carano

is that her father was also a professional athlete. He was an American football player. Gina was an inspirational figure but after some controversial comments on her social media, many criticized her view. Let's find out more facts about Gina Carano. 

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Carano is a hardworking and ambitious woman and a natural born fighter.

Gina Carano Early Life

Gina Carano was born in Dallas County, Texas. Her date of birth is April 16, 1982. Gina Carano’s father, Glenn Carano, was a professional athlete at the time. Glenn played for the Dallas Cowboys football team. The family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. She has two sisters, Casey and Christie. Gina was raised in Las Vegas. When Gina was 7 years old her parents divorced and she stayed with her mom Dana Joy Cason. Gina has Italian family roots. She is the fourth generation since her ancestors’ migration to America. She has two sisters, Casey and Christie. 

Gina Carano Personal Life 

About Gina

Carano’s personal life

, it should be mentioned that she doesn’t have a husband and she has never been married. She is currently dating Muay Thai fighter, Kevin Ross, who has been nicknamed “The Soul Assassin” in the ring. They dated for four years in the 2000s and then reunited in 2015. She told the Las Vegas Sun in 2009 that “I went and saw [Kevin] train and the Muay Thai master called me fat. He told me, ‘Hey, baby, you need to train; you’re too fat; you need to train.’

I was overweight at the time, and so I signed up, and ever since then my life has changed and taken off.” “When we were dating we used to beat the crap out of each other,” “He really did start off my career and gave me meaning to my life,” Carano said. “It’s weird that it happened, I don’t know if it wasn’t for him. He’s the kind of person who in one day completely just changed his life and that affected mine.”

Carano also dated Henry Cavil, the Superman star, for two years starting in 2012, but their relationship didn’t last. She also has dated another Muay Thai fighter, Kit Cope. In 2009, Cope said that he had a sex tape of her. He later clarified and insisted that the comment was a joke taken out of context. 

Gina Carano Fighting Career 

Gina went to Trinity Christian High School in Las Vegas. She started practicing gymnastics, volleyball, softball, and basketball in that high school. Despite her success with the basketball team, Gina didn’t continue basketball. Muay Thai was introduced to Gina by her former boyfriend. Her first instructor was Master Chan. Gina’s mother was a big support in the way of building her fighting career. The boyfriend who introduced Muay Thai to Gina was a professional fighter himself. Kevin Ross was his name and he is currently retired just like Gina.

After achieving a Muay Thai record of 12–1–1, Carano received her first Mixed Martial Art fighting offer in 2006. Her debut fight was against Leticia Pestovа in the World Extreme Fighting event at Nevada. The fight was held on June 10, and Carana won by knock-out. Pestova lasted only 38 seconds facing Gina’s punches and elbows. Carano was a Bantamweight at the time. 

Rosi Sexton was the second MMA opponent for Carano. The British fighter was a trained and Jiu Jitsu and Taekwondo fighter. Sexton is well educated unlike most of the athletes. She has degrees in mathematics and computer science. Sexton had won all her first five fights but Carano defeated her. Gina collected her second victory by knock-out over Sexton at World Pro Fighting Championships 1 event. The fighters were catchweight and Gina knocked her out by punch after 4:55 passed the fight.

Carano’s third and last fight in 2006 was with Elaina Maxwell at Strikeforce: Triple Threat. It was the first female fight in Strikeforce and Carano won the fight via unanimous decision.The event was held in San Jose that was the first fight of Gina out of her hometown Las Vegas. Maxwell was a professional kickboxer and won a gold medal at the World Wushu Games in 2003, but Carano’s punches ended the match after 2 minutes. 

On February 10, 2007, Carano fought the first televised female fight on Showtime. Her opponent at Elite Xtreme Combat was Julie Kedzie. The event was named EliteXC: Destiny but the fight between Carano and Kedzie was called the "Fight of the Night.". After three rounds Gina won via unanimous decision. Jan Finney was scheduled to fight Carano on June 2, 2007, but the fight was canceled after Carano was forced to withdraw due to illness.

Gina’s next fight was at EliteXC: Uprising. The event was held on Saturday, September 15, 2007, at the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Oahu, Hawaii. She faced Tonya Evinger who had a 5-1 record losing the last fight. Carano won her first fight via submission after she performed a rear-naked choke at 2:53 of the fight.

The HOOKnSHOOT champion, Kaitlin Young was the next person to fight Gina Carano at EliteXC: Primetime. The fight took place on May 31, 2008, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The day before the fight Carano failed to make weight for her fight but both sides reached a compromise and the fight remained on the card. Carano won her 6th fight in a row after she defeated Young via technical knock-out.

For her next fight, Carano had a weight issue again. She made the weight for EliteXC: Heat fight against Kelly Kobold. The event was held on October 4, 2008, in Sunrise, Florida, at the BankAtlantic Center. Both fighters competed toe to toe but at last, Carano won the 7th fight via decision. 

After winning her first seven professional fights it was her turn to face the Brazilian fighter Cris Cyborg promoted by Strikeforce. The event was named Strikeforce: Carano vs. Cyborg. The card was the first time that a major promotion had featured the main event between women. The fight took place on  August 15, 2009. Cyborg’s record before the fight was 7-1. Carano lost the inaugural Strikeforce Women's Featherweight Championship to Cyborg in the first round by a technical knockout.  It was the last fight of Gina and she retired with the 7-1 record while Cyborg’s record is currently is 25-2. 

Gina Carano Acting Career

Gina Carano's acting career started in 2005 with a film called Ring Girls. It is an action movie about five American women who practice Muay Thai boxing and Carano plays herself. In 2006, she played in a series called Fight Girls and again, she played as herself. In 2008, she appeared in a video game called Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 and she played a character named Natasha Volkova who was a Soviet sniper/commando.

A year later, she was featured in the movie Blood and Bone with Michael Jai White as the lead character. In Haywire 2011, she got her first leading role directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Fassbender. It is an action-thriller movie and she had a fighting scene with Fassbender. She described it as “brutal” in an interview. “We were brutal to each other. He was slamming me into the wall. He slammed my head so hard, I lost it for a second — I went white. And at one point, our knees clashed, [and] he got a limp.” Soderbergh's movie earned her a nomination for Best Actress in an Action Movie at the 18th Critics' Choice Awards. 

In 2013, Carano was featured in Fast & Furious 6 as a member of Special Agent Luke Hobbs' (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) Diplomatic Security Service team. She has brought her MMA experience and Mui Thai moves to the character and critics praised Carano for her performance. But she had critical opinions about the fight scenes. "I'm like, 'Gosh, I wish there was so much more!' But maybe that's just me being greedy." she also was featured in the Fast & Furious: Showdown video game. 

In a 2013-14 Fox series called Almost Human, Carano was cast in an episode called “Unbound” and played as a combat android named Danica. In 2015, she co-starred in the movie Extraction and in Heist, which includes big stars like Robert De Niro. In Deadpool 2016, Gina had a character named Angel Dust, who in the comics was part of the underground group known as Morlocks. 

In 2018, Gina was announced as part of the cast of The Mandalorian, a Lucasfilm Star Wars television series. The Mandalorian is one of her biggest hits as a character named Cara Dune, who is a former Rebel shock trooper and has become a mercenary after the Galactic Civil War. She is skilled in the use of weaponry and battle tactics. Carano described her character as a loner who has trouble readjusting to the new society after the war.

The character played by Carano had a lot of positive reviews and has been described as a feminist role model. She wasn’t auditioned for the part because the director Jon Favreau created the character with Carano especially in mind. After airing two seasons, Carano was dropped by Lucasfilm in February 2021, due to her controversial posts on social media, which you’ll find a full timeline in the next part.

Currently, Carano is filming a western movie called Terror on the Prairie and it has been described as an untitled Gina Carano/The Daily Wire project. It is her first project After firing from The Mandalorian and she has hit back with “They Can't Cancel Us If We Don't Let Them”. The movie also stars another MMA fighter, Donald Cerrone, and Carano is also one of its producers.

Controversies 

Gina Carano’s career in the film industry has been affected by her posts on social media. She was one of the most important and interesting side characters in the first season of Mandalorian in 2019. 

Anti-mask Tweets and Racism

It all started in August 2020, when Carano posted a famous photo of a Nazi rally, in which a former Nazi was singled out, refusing to give the “Seig heil” salute like others because of the love of a Jewish woman. Twitter users called her racist regarding the 1936 photo and one commenter replied that critics are simply to educate and she responded with “In my experience, screaming at someone that they are a racist when they are indeed NOT a racist & any post and/or research you do will show you those exact facts. Then I’m sorry, these people are not “educators”.. they are cowards and bullies.”

She was trending in Twitter again in early September, because of some anti-mask memes at the beginning of the pandemic and her Nazi-related post. She also had another controversial tweet about lockdown in America urging people not to close their businesses. “Open up your businesses & churches. Put whatever regulations you want to because that is your right but open them up. You’re telling me Covid-19 knows the difference between a protest or praise & worship. I haven’t even been to church in over a decade but I sure would go now.”

“The world IS open but no one is allowed to work. Working is a right you, as an American have. It gives us purpose, focus, pride, and most importantly a way to support the ones we love. People are dropping like flies from depression and suicide, overdoses, MURDER. Enough already.” Again commenters suggested that she sounds like an anti-protester, and unlike religious services, people in Black Live Matters protests wore masks. 

Sexism

In mid-September 2020, Carano was accused of being transphobic. As you may know, the LGBTQ+ community and its supporters tend to add their pronouns next to their names on social media. Gina Carano wrote "beep/bop/boop" instead and she was vastly criticized by it. She was demanded to apologize and show her support for transgenders, but she refused. "I decided to put 3 VERY controversial words in my bio.. beep/bop/boop," she tweeted.

"I'm not against trans lives at all. They need to find less abusive representation.‘Beep/bop/boop' has zero to do with mocking trans people & 100 to do with exposing the bullying mentality of the mob that has taken over the voices of many genuine causes. I want people to know you can take hate with a smile. So BOOP you for misunderstanding. #AllLoveNoHate”. People demanded on different social media firing Carano from Mandalorian and therefore LucasFilm asked her to apologize.

Carano stated in an interview that Lucasfilm decided to exclude her from all press and promotion for The Mandalorian because she refused to apologize the way they wanted her to. “Earlier on last year before The Mandalorian came out, they wanted me to use their exact wording for an apology over pronoun usage. I declined and offered a statement in my own words. I made clear I wanted nothing to do with mocking the transgender community and was just drawing attention to the abuse of the mob in forcing people to put pronouns in their bio,” she said.

“That was heartbreaking, but I didn’t want to take away from the hard work of everyone who worked on the project, so I said OK. That was the last time I was contacted about any type of public statement or apology from Lucasfilm.”

Dropping from Lucasfilm and UTA 

Carano openly supported Donald Trump and also posted some tweets about theories of US presidential election fraud. The last straw for LucasFilm and Disney+ was Carano’s post on Holocaust. Her most controversial post was in February 2021, comparing a Jewish during the Holocaust with being a conservative in the United States.

The post includes a picture of a woman who is beaten on the street and running and the caption reads “Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…. even by children, Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thoughts of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”

She deleted the post a day later but #FireGinaCarano was trending on Twitter already with many users tagging Jon Favreau, the creator of Mandalorian, and the accounts of Lucasfilm, Disney, Star Wars, and Disney+. The hashtag #CancelDisneyPlus was also trending on Twitter. 

Finally, Lucasfilm released a statement about Carano “not currently employed” by them. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the production company has been looking for a reason to fire her for months because of her tweets of mocking masks and election fraud. Lucasfilm also wanted to announce Carano as the star of her own series but those plans were canceled, too. The United Talent Agency, which was her agency, also dropped her and distanced itself from her rights away. 

Some Quick Facts About Gina Carano 

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Gina Carano’s age

, it should be mentioned that she was born on April 16, 1982, in Dallas County, Texas, US, so till now, she has 39 years of age. She was a professional MMA fighter and Muay Thai Boxer and she only lost once in her last fight against Cris Cyborg. One of the facts about Gina is that she is currently an actress and producer. 

Another fact about Gina Carano is that she has been called “Face of Women's MMA" and she was the fastest-rising search on Google and third-most-searched person on Yahoo and ranked 5th on a list of the "Top 10 Influential Women" of 2008. She also is one of the cover athletes along with Serena Williams for the October 19, 2009 edition of ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue.

One of the

facts about Gina Carano

is that she has named her 5 favorite films: True Romance (1993), Braveheart (1995), Let Me In (2010), Cry-Baby (1990), and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). She has a birthmark on her left eye, which gives the impression of a black eye. Make-up is usually used to mask this.

Gina Carano Social Media

About

Gina Carano’s social media

activities, it should be mentioned that she is active on both Twitter and Instagram. Her Twitter ID is ginacarano and she has almost a million followers. Her Instagram page is ginajcarano and has 1.9 million followers. She is shooting her new western movie in Montana and has shared a lot of backstage photos recently. 

Gina Carano Body Measurements

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Gina Carano’s body measurements

, her height is 5 ft and 8 inches. Her weight is 72 kg and her eyes are dark brown. Gina’s figure measurements are 38-28-37 in or 96.5-71-94 cm.

Gina Carano Net Worth & Salary

Gina Carano’s net worth

in 2021 is reported to be less than $8 million. She is currently an actress and TV personality. Carano also works as a fitness model. 

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