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Jenny Gago is a Actor American born on 11 september 1953

Jenny Gago

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Nationality USA
Birth 11 september 1953 (70 years)

Jenny Gago (born September 11, 1953) is a Peruvian-American actress.

Biography

Gago was born in Peru. She earned a Bachelor Degree in Theatre Arts from UCLA and attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute on a scholarship. She has a teenage son.

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Filmography of Jenny Gago (21 films)

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Gallowwalkers, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Wesley Snipes, Riley Smith, Tanit Phoenix, Patrick Bergin, Dallas Page, Jenny Gago
Roles Mistress
Rating36% 1.823181.823181.823181.823181.82318
After a group of outlaws kills his lover, Aman (Wesley Snipes) goes after them and kills them. When he is killed himself, his mother, a nun, breaks her covenant with God to save his life, which in turn curses him for life. His curse brings his victims back to life, and as undead, they pursue him endlessly for revenge. Forever suffering this curse and still seeking revenge, before Aman enlists Fabulos (Riley Smith), a young gunman, to fight by his side against his undead victims.
B-Girl
B-Girl (2009)
, 1h23
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Dance films
Actors Wesley Jonathan, Drew Sidora, Aimee Garcia, Jenny Gago, Marcelo Tubert, Robert Cicchini
Roles Crescencia
Rating40% 2.005692.005692.005692.005692.00569
In Brooklyn, Angel is a breakdancer who lives with her mother Gabby. Her abusive boyfriend Hector won't accept that she wants to break up. One night Angel and her best friend Rosie trade hats and jackets and Hector fatally stabs Rosie thinking she is Angel. When he realizes his mistake he stabs Angel too. After many weeks of recovery, Angel wants to breakdance again but is having difficulty. Gabby moves with Angel to Los Angeles to live with Angel's grandmother, where she believes Angel will be safe. Angel gets a night job at a car rental company and goes to college during the day. She also joins a group of breakdancers who need a sixth member to compete.
Coach Carter, 2h16
Directed by Thomas Carter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Basketball films, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Samuel L. Jackson, Ashanti, Rob Brown, Robert Ri'chard, Nana Gbewonyo, Rick Gonzalez
Roles President Martinez
Rating73% 3.6520553.6520553.6520553.6520553.652055
Coach Ken Carter takes over the head coaching job for the basketball team at his old high school Richmond, having played on the team himself and earning records. Carter quickly sees that the athletes are rude and disrespectful, and are in need of discipline. He hands the players individual contracts, instructing them to attend all of their classes, wear dress shirts and ties on game days, refer to everyone (players and coach alike) as "sir", and maintain a minimum 2.3 (C+) grade point average, among other requirements. Carter also asks the school staff for progress reports on the players' grades and attendance. He teaches them to play a disciplined brand of basketball.
Nurse Betty, 1h35
Directed by Neil LaBute
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Morgan Freeman, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear, Aaron Eckhart, Tia Texada
Roles Mercedes
Rating62% 3.148283.148283.148283.148283.14828
In a small Kansas town, Betty (Renée Zellweger), a kind and considerate diner waitress, is a fan of the soap opera A Reason to Love. She has no idea that her husband, Del (Aaron Eckhart), a car salesman, is having an affair with his secretary and that he intends to leave Betty to pursue a relationship with the secretary. She also doesn't know that her husband supplements his income by selling drugs out of the car dealership. When she calls to leave a message about borrowing a Buick LeSabre for her birthday, her husband tells Betty to take a different car, as the LeSabre (unknown to Betty) has stolen drugs hidden in the trunk.
Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy, 1h30
Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, Jenny Gago, Peggy McCay
Roles Detective Beatrice Zapeda
Rating63% 3.1920153.1920153.1920153.1920153.192015
The plot introduces the idea that among the Tenctonese slaves, there was a resistance movement called the Udara who were implanted with hypnotic suggestions to act as sleeper agents. Now, here on Earth, someone has found a way to activate these sleeper agents, and send them out as assassins.
Alien Nation: Millennium, 1h30
Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Jason Behr, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, David Faustino
Rating62% 3.141073.141073.141073.141073.14107
The plot follows human detective Matthew Sikes and his Tenctonese partner George Francisco as they investigate a mind-altering Tenctonese artifact being used to lure followers into a deadly cult. The artifact used in this movie was the same one from Alien Nation episode Generation to Generation.
My Family
My Family (1995)
, 2h8
Directed by Gregory Nava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales, Jennifer Lopez, Elpidia Carrillo, Jacob Vargas
Roles Maria
Rating72% 3.648813.648813.648813.648813.64881
The story is narrated by the family's oldest son, Paco (Edward James Olmos). The film begins with the father of the family, José Sanchez (Jacob Vargas), making a journey that lasts one year on foot from Mexico to Los Angeles. He travels to Los Angeles to meet a distant relative known as El Californio, who was born in the city when it was still part of Mexico. They become fast friends and grew a corn farm together. However, after several years, El Californio nears death. Shortly before dying, El Californio says he wants the following written on his tombstone:
The Tie That Binds, 1h39
Directed by Wesley Strick
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Vincent Spano, Moira Kelly, Bruce Young, Cynda Williams
Roles Maggie Hass
Rating50% 2.5056752.5056752.5056752.5056752.505675
In California, John Netherwood (Keith Carradine) and his wife Leann Netherwood (Daryl Hannah) are fugitives who are wanted for murder. They have a 6-year-old daughter named Janie (Julia Devin).
Alien Nation: Body and Soul, 1h30
Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, Leon Russom, Jenny Gago
Roles Detective Beatrice Zapeda
Rating65% 3.291023.291023.291023.291023.29102
It follows the television series format of two parallel storylines. The first plot is about a seemingly human-Tenctonese hybrid child involved in a sinister experiment with a Newcomer scientist disguised as a human. The sub-plot is the budding relationship between Matt Sikes and his Tenctonese neighbor Dr. Cathy Frankel. The relationship between Matt and Cathy was an ongoing theme of the Alien Nation television series.
Alien Nation: Dark Horizon, 1h30
Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Jenny Gago, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland, Patience Cleveland
Roles Detective Beatrice Zapeda
Rating64% 3.2435953.2435953.2435953.2435953.243595
In a recapitulation of the series cliffhanger, Alien Nation: Dark Horizon begins with Susan Francisco and her daughter Emily falling victim to a newly developed bacterial infection that was created by a group of human Purists to exterminate the Newcomer species. There is also a new sub-plot running parallel to this one, the story of Ahpossno, a Tenctonese Overseer who lands on Earth to find any surviving Tenctonese and bring them back into slavery. The idea of a signal sent into space by the surviving Overseers was explored in the Alien Nation episode Contact.
Bound by Honor, 3h
Directed by Taylor Hackford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Prison films, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Enrique Castillo, Delroy Lindo, Victor Rivers
Roles Lupe
Rating79% 3.9529253.9529253.9529253.9529253.952925
Miklo is a man of Mexican and Caucasian ethnicity who grew up in El Pico Aliso barrio in east Los Angeles. Upon moving back home from Las Vegas, Nevada, Miklo goes to stay with his two cousins Paco and Cruz. Miklo tells Cruz that he wants to join their gang Vatos Locos. While Paco is initially skeptical, Miklo later proves himself when he performs an attack on a rival gang, Tres Puntos. Afterwards he is made a member of Vatos Locos.
Sweet 15
Sweet 15 (1990)
, 2h
Directed by Victoria Hochberg
Genres Drama
Actors Karla Montana, Jerry Stiller, Tony Plana, Liz Torres, Susan Ruttan, Jenny Gago
Roles Inez
Rating40% 2.0412752.0412752.0412752.0412752.041275
Marta de la Cruz is the daughter of two hardworking Mexican immigrants. She and her two siblings were born in the United States and are living in Los Angeles. They are a working-class family, and their hardworking father, Samuel, is the operations manager of a steel mill that makes chain link fences. He has been working hard for much of his life, and the work finally paid off when they became legal citizens. They also have a close relationship with their next-door neighbor Jorge, who is struggling to find work because he has no papers. Marta is seen as spoiled, immature, and somewhat naive, but she wants to have an amazing quinceanera, as her friends are not having one. Her parents tell her that she may have to postpone it, because of financial problems, when in reality, they are not legal citizens, and they need to save money in case Samuel's boss, Mr. Waterman (Jerry Stiller) finds out and he is left jobless. Marta does not understand the situation and is very angry and upset. Her jealousy only increases when she is forced to get a job in the immigration department of their church to volunteer in the community.
Old Gringo
Old Gringo (1989)
, 1h59
Directed by Luis Puenzo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits, Luis Puenzo, Jim Metzler, Jenny Gago
Roles La Garduna
Rating58% 2.9009952.9009952.9009952.9009952.900995
American schoolteacher Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) goes to Mexico to work as a governess for the Miranda family, and becomes caught up in the Mexican revolution. Mexicans transporting her from Chihuahua, secretly soldiers of Pancho Villa's army, use her luggage to smuggle weapons to the servants at the Miranda hacienda. The servants in turn aid the attacking revolutionary army of General Tomas Arroyo (Jimmy Smits). During the attack, a sardonic "Old Gringo", American author Ambrose Bierce (Gregory Peck), joins the fighting on the side of the revolutionaries; he operates a railway switch that sends a railroad flatcar laden with explosives to its target.
Best Seller, 1h35
Directed by John Flynn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about writers
Actors James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant, Paul Shenar, Allison Balson, George Coe
Rating63% 3.196643.196643.196643.196643.19664
The movie opens in 1972 as a group of gunmen wearing Richard Nixon Halloween masks steal evidence from a police evidence storage unit, killing several officers in the process. Officer Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is seriously wounded after stabbing one of the robbers. He survives and publishes a book titled Inside Job based on his experience. Years later, Meechum, who by now has become an acclaimed author and a much decorated Detective, is working on his next novel. He now suffers from writer's block, and is a widowed father raising his daughter, Holly (Allison Balson).