Carla Gugino Says She Lied About Her Age to Be in Troop Beverly Hills: 'I Was Actually 16'

After three decades in Hollywood, Carla Gugino has been in nearly everything—the Spy Kids movies, a Bon Jovi video, a BBC adaptation of The Buccaneers and the disaster flick San Andreas, to start. But strangers still stop her on the street to talk about her early turn as poor little rich girl Chica Barnfell in the 1989 cult classic Troop Beverly Hills.
“Troop Beverly Hills was very key for me. It was the first job that allowed me to make enough money that I was going to be able to su