Born in Lalelam, England on the 4th of February 1970, Gabrielle has a daughter named Willow (born 1993). At 19, daughter of a Persian film producer and an English actress, Gabrielle moved to Los Angeles with American actor and Grave co-star Craig Sheffer, whom she met while both were working in London. "He quoted some lines from a Hardy novel I was reading," she says. "I was completely enchanted."

Gabrielle chose acting to keep from going to school. Having been kicked out of one for fistfighting, she decided at 15 that the competition at drama school was too stiff. So after landing a role in the BBC miniseries Hideaway, she just kept working. "To this day, I think if I stop I'm going to end up in some establishment somewhere," she says.

While cleaning apartments between jobs, she got called in to audition for what would become her breakthrough role, Al Pacino's tango partner in Scent of a Woman, or as she jokingly calls it, "Stench of a Wench". Her next part, as a hotelier's mistress in the Michael J. Fox comedy For Love or Money, was she says a "dreadful waste of millions. I beg for forgiveness for every woman who listened to what I said." As co-webmaster for this website, I can say I truly enjoyed that film. Both Gabrielle and Michael J worked well together, a perfect chemistry. And showed, without fail, what a perfect singing voice Gabrielle also has.

Showing an unhappiness with certain roles, Gabrielle also states: "I may as well have been a big rubber doll with a hole strategically placed," she says of her role as Andy Garcia's love interest in the film Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead. And while the actress is pleased with her work as a woman with a mysterious past in The Grave, she's unhappy about the "princesses and ineloquent bimbettes" she's agreed to play along the way. "I've made my own bed," she says. "I'm only now regretting it." Says Grave director Jonas Pate, "She's always cast as the beautiful woman. But she has this incredibly funny, dark sensibility."

Whatever Gabrielle's opinions of her own movies, her fans have never yet been let down.

Credit: gabrielleanwar.co.uk