With Gina Carano, a virtual unknown butt kicking some of our favorite leading men like Ewan McGregor, Micheal Fassbender and more in the movie Haywire, everyone want to know who is this chick? Moreover, with a last name such as Carano plus those smoldering dark good looks help people to assume she is Italian. The Haywire/Mixed Martial Arts star's view on her ethnicity/ background keeps coming up in internet searches as "I am a small percentage Italian." Leave it to the Martial Arts Community to go directly to the source for an answer.
Here is an excerpt from an MMANews interview:
MMANews.com: What's your heritage?
Gina Carano: I'm Italian, well Italian American. My family throws an Italian festival every year and we grew up on raviolis and that stuff.
MMANews.com: So you're 100% Italian?
Gina Carano: No just a small percentage of Italian. But that's just where my family came from. I'm a fourth generation or something like that.
MMANews.com: Fourth generation Italian American?
Gina Carano: Yea so I'm American.