NAGHP - Gia/Marisa Biography

Gia Campbell became known to the Port Charles teens when she was caught for blackmailing Emily Quatermaine. Gia however knew nothing of Emily's troubles...she just took a lucky guess to gain some money thinking a little rich girl would not want the world to know she went off with a total stranger to a hotel.

After she was caught the teens turned to Gia for help, because they needed her to identify the person who set up Emily since she was at the hotel that night. She however has no clue about what went on that night.

Gia has a lot of spunk and when she first arrived in PC she caught the eye of the Cassidine Prince Nikolas. Although she kept insiting she wanted nothing to do with him fate will kept throwing these them together.

Gia is the sister of Lt. Marcus Taggert and daughter of Florance Campbell who works at General Hospital.

A little while after Gia arrived in PC, she and Nikolas began a tentative friendship. They began to live together when Gia needed a place to stay, because she decided that Port Charles would be her new place of residence. Soon Nikolas and Gia began to fall for each other and on Valentines Day 2001, they made love.

Marisa Rameriz orginated the role of Port Charles newest teenager Gia, in July of 2000.

Marisa's career began when a polaroid photo of the then 13 year old landed in the hands of a major Los Angeles modeling agency. Within two years, Marisa was working almost every week as print model and commercial actress, where she had the oppertunity to travel to places such as Singapore, Italy, Austraila, South Africa, and Hong Kong.
The self processed shy girl began taking acting classes, and landed roles on Bold and Beautiful, Days Of Our Lives, and most recently Roswell. She also served as host of "Senesless Acts of Video" on MTV.

Marisa lives in Los Angeles area and enjoys spending time with family and friends. "I'm not a party girl." Explains the mature 22 year old actress. "I like baking cookies and playing domineo's."