Gugino, 32, best known as the spunky mom in the Spy Kids movies, is now taking on the ultimate sex symbol: In the new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's After the Fall, she plays a naive, doomed sexpot based on Miller's ex-wife Marilyn Monroe. "I didn't want to imitate Monroe, I wanted to have her spirit," says Gugino, who appears in lingerie—and, briefly, nude. "She had a childlike quality mixed with a profound sexuality."
Gugino, too, was reared a free spirit. At 4, the Sarasota, Fla., native spent six months living with her divorced mother in a tepee. "We bathed in a river, made oatmeal on a propane stove. I had a very bohemian life." Teen modeling led to acting and a role as Michael J. Fox's feisty reporter girlfriend on Spin City in 1996. "We had a Tracy-Hepburn banter," recalls Gugino, who left the show when producers decided to focus on Fox's office pals. Last year she starred as a tough U.S. marshal on ABC's Karen Sisco. Offscreen Gugino saves her seductive side for her beau of eight years, screenwriter Sebastian Gutierrez (Gothika). But onscreen she's only getting started: Next she'll play a parole officer in the noir thriller Sin City. "I hold a gun," she says, "clad only in a G-string and shadows."
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