Gia

True story of top model Gia Carangi’s rise to fame in the 1970’s to her untimely downfall. She arrives in New York from Philadelphia, having escaped abuse, and quickly becomes the forefront of the modeling industry until she becomes a drug addict., With her parents marriage heading for the rocks, a young girl dreams of faraway places and when she will be old enough to make those dreams come true., Fact-based story of top fashion model Gia Marie Carangi follows her life from a rebel working in her father’s diner at age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS. A blue-eyed girl with big dreams moves from Philadelphia to the Big Apple, New York. After catching the eye of a powerful agent, Gia’s wit and charm allows her to climb the fashion industry ladder at a break neck speed. However, little does she know of the tragedy which awaits her successful modeling career., In her award-winning role, Angelina Jolie stars as the ill-fated supermodel Gia Carangi. Based on a true story., Angelina Jolie (Wallace) has the title role in this biographical drama tracing the tragic rise to fame and death, at age 26, of insecure, self-destructive supermodel Gia Carangi, who grew up in Philadelphia a victim of child abuse, moved to New York to work as a model in 1977, scored big as a top-ranked cover girl under the tutelage of Wilhemina Cooper (Faye Dunaway), and burned brightly, before pills, coke, and heroin turned her life into a junkie hell. Music of the period includes Billy Joel, David Bowie, and the Pretenders. Filmed in NYC and LA, this feature premiered January 31, 1998 on HBO., Fact-based story of top fashion model Gia Marie Carangi follows her life from a rebel working in her father’s diner at age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS. A blue-eyed girl with big dreams moves from Philadelphia to the Big Apple, New York. After catching the eye of a powerful agent, Gia’s climbs the fashion industry ladder at a break neck speed. Little does she know of the tragedy which awaits her., The incredible and tragic true story of a young woman who is propelled from waitress to supermodel, but who then succumbs to AIDS and dies at the age of 26. Gia Marie Carangi is 17 when she is plucked from obscurity and enters the world of fashion modelling. She becomes an overnight sensation, but her private life is less successful and she bounces from romantic failure to romantic failure, indulging in drug abuse to deaden her emotions as she goes. She is one of the first women in America to contract AIDS and her death in 1986 is hailed as a national tragedy and a waste of a major talent., Gritty drama about the drug-addled supermodel who was born in Philadelphia and rose to the top of the fashion industry in the early ’80s, only to die of AIDS aged 26.