Gina Goldfarb (née
Gambarro) is a fictional recurring character in the American dramedy series
Ugly BettyUgly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series created by Silvio Horta, which premiered on The American Broadcasting Company on September 28, 2006. The series revolves around Betty Suarez, an unglamorous and good-natured girl, and her incongruous job at the ultra-chic New York City...
. She is played by
Ava GaudetAva Gaudet is an American television, film, and theatre actress/singer from Providence, Rhode Island.-Background:Ava Gaudet comes from a family of performers. Her mother is an actress and is a theater teacher at Mt Hope High School in Bristol Rhode Island and both her father and brother are jazz...
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Gina is a single woman of Italian and Hispanic descent who lives next door to the Suarez family. She has a reputation for stealing guys from other women and then using them to get what she wants, only to dump them later. She also spent some time in juvenile detention as a teen and often uses her petty-crime reputation to her advantage.
Gina also has a beef with the Suarez sisters.
Gina Goldfarb (née
Gambarro) is a fictional recurring character in the American dramedy series
Ugly BettyUgly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series created by Silvio Horta, which premiered on The American Broadcasting Company on September 28, 2006. The series revolves around Betty Suarez, an unglamorous and good-natured girl, and her incongruous job at the ultra-chic New York City...
. She is played by
Ava GaudetAva Gaudet is an American television, film, and theatre actress/singer from Providence, Rhode Island.-Background:Ava Gaudet comes from a family of performers. Her mother is an actress and is a theater teacher at Mt Hope High School in Bristol Rhode Island and both her father and brother are jazz...
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Background
Gina is a single woman of Italian and Hispanic descent who lives next door to the Suarez family. She has a reputation for stealing guys from other women and then using them to get what she wants, only to dump them later. She also spent some time in juvenile detention as a teen and often uses her petty-crime reputation to her advantage.
Gina also has a beef with the Suarez sisters.
BettyBeatriz "Betty" U. Suarez is a central fictional character and heroine of the American dramedy series Ugly Betty. She is portrayed by America Ferrera, who won a 2007 Golden Globe and 2007 SAG award for her portrayal of the character, as well as the Outstanding Actress in a Comedy award for the role...
blames Gina for causing her break-up with then-boyfriend
WalterWalter is a fictional character in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty. He is played by Kevin Sussman. Originally Walter was a recurring character on the series, but became a regular after the thirteenth episode. However, although Sussman is listed in the series' first season credits as a...
. She would later learn that Gina just used him to get a TV set Betty would later indirectly break (resulting in Gina stealing the "book" for
MODE to try to force Betty to give her $4,000 to cover the cost).
HildaHilda Suarez is a fictional character in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty. She is portrayed by Ana Ortiz. Hilda's character is the American adaptation's equivalent to Julia Solano Galindo de Pinzón, Beatriz Pinzón Solano's mother, and is loosely based on creator Silvio Horta's older...
simply doesn't like Gina and would like nothing more than to fight her if she messes with The Suarez family.
We find out later Hilda stole Gina's routine in a Miss Teen Queens pageant, and won. They also have a seasonal rivalry during the
ChristmasChristmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini...
season which involves destroying decorations, upsetting Hilda's son
JustinJustin Suarez is a fictional character on the American comedy-drama series Ugly Betty. He is portrayed by actor Mark Indelicato. Justin lives with his mother Hilda, his aunt Betty, and his grandfather Ignacio...
and father
IgnacioIgnacio Suarez is a fictional character in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty. He is portrayed by Tony Plana. Ignacio's character is equivalent to Hermes Pinzón Galarza, father to Beatriz Pinzón Solano.-Background:...
. In the first season, it was these series of events providing contention between Hilda and Gina. In addition, she knew about Ignacio's immigration troubles and was the one who told Betty about Leah Stillman, the scam artist who claimed to be a lawyer. Eventually after the Christmas meelee both Gina and Hilda buried the hatchet and at one point Hilda was thinking of replacing Betty with Gina as the maid of honor after they got stranded at a bus stop while they were in Mexico.
In the second season, it was learned Gina left Queens to marry a wealthy doctor, chiropractor Larry Goldfarb. This latest turn of events restarted the rivalry between Gina and Hilda, who discovers Gina is one of her clients at her beauty parlor. When Gina returned, she boasted her husband had pampered her with the finest clothes and other necessities, a move prompting Hilda to raid "The Closet" at Mode. When Hilda showed off her designs to Gina, she learned Gina's were fakes and her husband was never wealthy. This caused Gina to question her marriage as she left the salon saddened, leaving no conclusion to whether she'll continue the relationship and her husband upset over what Hilda had done to her.