Table of Biography
Erica Gimpel is an award-winning American actor and singer. Erica Gimpel is known as Coco Hernandez of the series, Fame.
Early Life
On June 25, 1964, Erica Fawn Gimpel was born in New York City to the artist’s family. As of now, she is 59 years old and belongs to the Jewish-Germanic ethnicity. She was born to her father Joseph Gimpel and her mother Phyllis. Her father is an actor, singer, and writer here and her mother is a singer. As she was inspired by her parents she also joined the High School of Performing Arts.
Caption: Erica Gimpel in her childhood photo. Source: Instagram
Erica Gimpel – Net Worth 2024
As of 2023, the estimated net worth of Erica Gimpel is $1 million. The major source of her earnings is her acting and singing career.
Personal Life
Erica Gimpel is single as per the sources. To date, she has not shared any information related to her relationship status, boyfriend, or husband. Hopefully, in the future, she might be in a relationship and share the details regarding it with the media.
Caption: Erica Gimpel with her mother. Source: Instagram
Professional Life
Erica Gimpel started giving auditions for TV series and she eventually landed the role of Coco in the series Fame. Later on, she appeared in series like Spenser: For Hire, North, and South, The Cosby Show, and Law & Order. In the year 1990, she played the role of Wendy for a series named American Playhouse.
Similarly, she landed in the role of Sydney Jessup for Touched by an Angel. In addition, she played Melinda and Cailyn in Babylon5 and Profiler respectively. From 1996-1999 she was seen in Profiler as Angel Brown. Besides, she was seen in The Big Easy, ER, Any Day Now, and The District.
Caption: Erica Gimpel with her co-star. Source: Instagram
Likewise, from 2001-to 2005, she appeared in Rosewell, Touched by an Angel, MDs, JAG, The Division, Veronica Mars, and Everwood. In 2006, she played Dr.Gans, Elizabeth, Riva Bell, and Sarah in the series House Numb3rs. Criminal Minds respectively. Furthermore, she appeared in Boston Legal, where she played the role of Attorney Samantha Fried.
She started getting more offers and appeared in Close to Home, Murder 101: If Wish Were Horses Eleventh Hour, and Grey’s Anatomy. From 2011-2015, she was seen in Prime Suspect, The Young and the Restless, Rizzoli & Isles, Cult, The Catch, and more.
More about career
She landed in roles like Renne Etheridge and Corinne Hager for The Ccth and Murder in the First respectively. Also, she played Agent Sims in a series named Shut Eye. She started getting offers and appeared in Chicago Med, God Friended Me, NCIS New Orleans, 9-1-1.
Currently, in 2023 she played the role of Ellie in the series Mayfair Witches. Besides that, she has also tried her luck in films, in 1988, she was seen in more named Case Closed. From 1990-1995, she appeared in King of New York, Homicide, Undertow, The Fenc, Amateur, Smoke Flirt, and The Price of Love.
Hence, from 2001 to 2006 she was seen in No Such Thing, Impostor, Freak Friday, In You Eyes, Beck and Call, and more. In 2010, she landed the role of Erica for a film titled Machete Joe.
Additionally, she was seen as Det Johnson in the film Named Tio Papi. Whereas, in the year 2015, she appeared in movies named Cloudy with a Chance of Love, Sex, Death, and Blowing. In 2020, she played the role of Eunice in a film named Sylvie’s Love. Hence, future in 2024, she will be playing Sharon in a movie named Bang Bang.
Erica Gimpel – Social Media
Erica is active on her Instagram account @theericagimpel, with 7425 followers. In her Facebook account, she has gained 3.3k likes and 3.5k followers. Thus, in July 2009, she joined Twitter with an account named @ericagimpel and has 3979 followers.
Body Measurements
Erica is very pretty. Also, she has a great height and stands 5 feet 8 inches tall. Likewise, she has curly brunette hair and brown pairs of eyes.