Carla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist of Italian descent, She worked as a teenage fashion model and took acting classes at the suggestion of her aunt, former Let’s Make a Deal spokesmodel Carol Merrill.

Gugino appeared as Amanda, Vincent Chase’s agent, in a dozen episodes of the cable television series Entourage. Gugino appeared in the May 2007 issue of Allure.

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Gugino parents separated when she was two, after which she traveled between her father and half-brother Carl Jr.’s home in Sarasota, and her Paradise, California, home, to which her mother moved her when she was four.

Gugino has said of her upbringing, “I lived in a tepee in Northern California and a van in Big Sur. With my dad, I lived in a beautiful house with a swimming pool and a tennis court and went to Europe for the summers. So I feel like I lived two childhoods.