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Gidget

Gidget ("girl midget") is a fictional teenage surfer based on Kathy Kohner, daughter of Frederick Kohner, star of the 1957 bestselling novel, the 1959 Sandra Dee film, sequels, and the 1965 Sally Field TV series that popularized surfing.

Gidget (film)

Gidget (1959), Paul Wendkos comedy starring Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson; Columbia adaptation of Frederick Kohner's novel about Kathy Kohner; spawned sequels, TV series, and the beach-movie genre.

Gidget (TV series)

Gidget is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1966, starring Sally Field as a surfing Southern California teenager living with her widowed father.

Gie

Gie is a 2005 Indonesian biographical drama directed by Riri Riza, based on Soe Hok Gie's diary Catatan Seorang Demonstran, starring Nicholas Saputra; it won Best Film, Actor, and Cinematography at the 2005 Festival Film Indonesia.

Gifted (2017 film)

Gifted (2017) is an American drama directed by Marc Webb, written by Tom Flynn, starring Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, and Octavia Spencer; a Fox Searchlight custody drama about a math-prodigy girl in Florida.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a 2009 TNT biographical TV movie directed by Thomas Carter, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Kimberly Elise as his mother Sonya, premiering February 7, 2009.

Gig Young

Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr, 1913-1978), American character actor and Oscar winner for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; named after his The Gay Sisters role; Coast Guard veteran; died in a 1978 murder-suicide.

Gigan

Gigan (ガイガン, Gaigan) is a Toho kaiju cyborg debuting in Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972), designed by Takayoshi Mizuki, known for its abdominal buzzsaw, hooked claws, and visor, appearing in Final Wars (2004) as Modified Gigan.

Giganta

Giganta (Doris Zeul) is a DC Comics supervillain and Wonder Woman enemy who grows to giant size. Debuting in Wonder Woman #9 (1944) as a gorilla evolved by Professor Zool, she was reimagined by John Byrne and in animation.

Gigantic (unproduced film)

Gigantic (originally Giants) was Walt Disney Animation Studios' unproduced Jack and the Beanstalk musical, announced at D23 Expo 2015, set in Spain with giant girl Inma, directed by Nathan Greno and Meg LeFauve, canceled October 10, 2017.

Gigantis, the Fire Monster

Gigantis, the Fire Monster is the 1959 Warner Bros. American re-edit and English dub of Toho's 1955 Godzilla Raids Again, renaming Godzilla "Gigantis," changing his roar, and adding narration and stock footage.

Gigi (1958 film)

Gigi (1958) is Vincente Minnelli's MGM musical, also called The Parisiennes, adapted from Colette's novella, starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, and Louis Jourdan; it won all nine of its Academy Awards and closed the Freed Unit era.

Gigi Edgley

Gigi Edgley (born 1977, Perth) is an Australian actress best known as Chiana on Farscape (1999–2003) and Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars; also Lara Knight in Rescue Special Ops and host of Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge.

Gigi Zumbado

Gigi Zumbado, also credited as Gigi Zumbado actress, is a Cuban American actress from Miami, youngest of the acting Zumbado sisters. Known for Monica in Heart Eyes (2025), Tammy Ocampo in Bridge and Tunnel, and Ceci in CBS's DMV.

Gigli

Gigli is a 2003 American romantic comedy crime film directed by Martin Brest, starring Ben Affleck as a mob enforcer and Jennifer Lopez; it became a famous box-office failure.

Gigolos

Gigolos (2011–2016) is a Showtime reality series following five Las Vegas male escorts, mainly Cowboys4Angels employees; 54 episodes over six seasons, TV-MA, later tied to a 2020 murder and a 2025 docuseries.

Gil Bellows

Gil Bellows (born 1967) is a Canadian actor, producer, and director from Vancouver, known as Tommy Williams in The Shawshank Redemption and Billy Thomas in Ally McBeal, Emmy- and Peabody-winning producer of Temple Grandin.

Gil Birmingham

Gil Birmingham (born 1953, San Antonio, Texas) is an American actor of Comanche ancestry, known as Billy Black in the Twilight Saga and Tribal Chairman Thomas Rainwater in Yellowstone and its 2026 CBS spinoff Marshals.

Gil Gerard

Gil Gerard (1943–2025), American actor, starred as Captain William 'Buck' Rogers in the 1979 film and NBC series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; former industrial chemist, The Doctors soap star, died of cancer at 82.

Gil Grissom

Gil Grissom (Dr. Gilbert Grissom) is the fictional forensic entomologist and night-shift supervisor of the Las Vegas Crime Lab in CSI, played by William Petersen from 2000 to 2009 and again in CSI: Vegas.

Gilbert and Linati schemata

Gilbert and Linati schemata: two tables James Joyce made in 1920 and 1921 for Carlo Linati and Valery Larbaud mapping each Ulysses episode to Homeric parallels, hours, colors, organs, arts, symbols, and techniques; Gilbert's was published in 1930, Linati's in 1972.

Gilbert Roland

Gilbert Roland (Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, 1905-1994), Mexican-born Hollywood actor from silent films to Barbarosa (1982), famous as the Cisco Kid and for Golden Globe-nominated roles in The Bad and the Beautiful and Cheyenne Autumn.

Gilda

Gilda (1946) is a Columbia Pictures film noir directed by Charles Vidor, starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, and George Macready. Set in a Buenos Aires casino, famous for "Put the Blame on Mame" and the black satin gown; added to the National Film Registry in 2013.

Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner (1946–1989), American comedian and original Saturday Night Live cast member, creator of Roseanne Roseannadanna, Baba Wawa, and Emily Litella; Emmy winner, Gene Wilder's wife, died of ovarian cancer at 42.

Gildart Jackson

Gildart Jackson is an English actor, writer, and audiobook narrator (over 400 books, Audie winner) known for Gideon in Charmed, Giles the Butler on Whodunnit?, and voicing Alfred Pennyworth in Gotham Knights.

Gill-man

Gill-man is the amphibious monster of Universal's Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), designed by Milicent Patrick, played by Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning, and an influence on The Shape of Water.

Gilles Marini

Gilles Marini, French-American actor and former model born 1976 in Grasse, France; broke out as Dante in Sex and the City: The Movie (2008), Dancing with the Stars season 8 runner-up, and star of Brothers & Sisters and Switched at Birth.

Gilli (ಗಿಲ್ಲಿ) (film)

Gilli is a 2009 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama directed by Raghava Loki, starring debutant Gururaj Jaggesh and Rakul Preeth Singh, based on the Tamil film 7G Rainbow Colony.

Gilli Nata

Gilli Nata (Kannada: ಗಿಲ್ಲಿ ನಟ), real name Malavalli Nataraj, is a Kannada comedian and TV personality, first runner-up on Comedy Khiladigalu 4 and winner of Bigg Boss Kannada Season 12 (January 2026), now debuting as a film lead in Chandramohan's Palaar.

Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson (born 1968, Chicago) is an American-British actress known for Dana Scully in The X-Files, The Fall, The Crown's Thatcher, and Sex Education; based in London since 2002, two-time Emmy winner.