- Gina Tribbiani
Infobox character
name = "Gina Tribbiani"
first = "The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister" ("Friends")
last = "Joey and the Wedding" ("Joey")
cause = Cancellation
occupation = Hairdresser
children = Michael, unborn child
siblings = Tina, Dina, Mary Angela, Mary Therese, Veronica, Cookie and Joey
episodes = 1 ("Friends")/46 ("Joey")
portrayer =Drea de Matteo Gina Tribbiani born in
1967 is a heavy drinking and highly volatilefictional character on the short lived US television sitcom "Joey" (2004 –2006 ) byDrea de Matteo . She also appeared in an episode ofFriends portrayed by a different actress.Background
Gina comes from a
Roman Catholic Italian American family. In the "Friends " episode "The One Where They All Turn Thirty ", her brother Joey reveals that he (and presumably Gina is as well) is also 1/16th Portuguese.Family
Gina has one brother (
Joey Tribbiani ), 6 Sisters (Tina, Dina, Mary Angela, Mary Therese, Veronica and Cookie) and a sonMichael Tribbiani .Her mother and father are named Gloria and Joseph Tribbiani, Sr respectively.She also has an once mentioned but never seen cousin Marie.Gina is often overprotective and over clingy with her son Michael even going so far as to breast feed him until the age of six and stopping him from playing
little league baseball because she feared he might get hurt.Gina often comes across as being selfish and harsh towards her only brother, Joey, in attempts to hide the fact that she loves him. For example, when he told her he loved her she hit him.
Gina is shown to be jealous of her youngest sister, Mary-Therese, claiming that she always has got everything she wanted because she is the baby, but in the same episode proved she still cares for her sister.
It is revealed, in the middle of
Joey season 2, that Gina is pregnant with her son's father's baby.References
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Friends " episode "The One Where They All Turn Thirty ""Joey " episode "Pilot"
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