Ginger Gonzaga
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Ginger Gonzaga is an actor, writer, improviser and director. She has sold shows to Warner Brothers and HBO, and made her directorial debut with the short film 'Your Day' starring herself and Jason Ritter, which she also wrote.
As an actor Ginger will next be seen in A24’s psychological thriller Famous opposite Zac Efron and Phoebe Dyenavor. Recently she was the lead of CBS's True Lies as Helen Tasker and starred as Nikki Ramos on Marvel's She Hulk: Attorney at Law as "Nikki" the fast, fearless and fashionable friend of Walters. Additionally, she is best known for her memorable performances on The Duplass Brothers series 'Togetherness,' (as the millennial antagonist Christie opposite Amanda Peete) and their musical for 'Room 104' (as the singing love interest opposite Bryan Tyree Henry) both on HBO. After playing Maggie, the impressionable free spirit on Showtime's 'I'm Dying Up Here' (Opposite Melissa Leo and Clark Duke) she joined their Michel Gondry directed series Kidding as Vivian, a sardonic but soulful cancer patient. For Hulu's 'Chance,' she played the bilingual coyote Lorena (opposite Hugh Laurie and Ethan Suplee) and for Netflix's 'Spaceforce,' a satirical version of AOC dubbed "AYC" (opposite Steve Carrel and John Malkovich). Ginger was also a regular on ABC's Mixology, and TBS's Wrecked, as well as the host of Hulu's comedic daily pop culture recap show 'The Morning After,' for which she also wrote. Other television credits include her recurring roles on Tad Quill's Jane Lynch comedy Angel from Hell, Fx's Legit and Netflix's 'Grace and Frankie,' and 'Blindspotting' for Starz.
Ginger's film debut was in Seth MacFarlane's popular 2012 comedy Ted, followed by Demetri Martin's dramedy and Tribeca Film Festival Winner Dean (opposite Demetri Martin and Gillian Jacobs), and Henry Phillips's Punching the Clown, (opposite J.K Simmons and Jim Jefferies).
Ginger also sings and composes and will provided the score for her short film Mermaid, which recently won "Best Horror" at the Oscar/BAFTA qualifying LA Shorts Film Festival. She attended UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara and graduated early with a B.A in Political Science/International Relations and a minor in Chinese before training at The Groundings and Second City Theaters.
She is Filipina, Dutch, French, English, Italian, German, Polynesian, Spanish, Nordic and Scandinavian. Her father is from Cebu, and her mother is American.
