Gabrielle Carteris Biography

Fast Facts

• A longtime board member of AFTRA's Los Angeles chapter, she was named the organization's national vice president after they merged with SAG in 2012
• Once served as the vice president of the California Labor Federation
• Earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College
• Born to Greek parents, she has a twin brother named James
• Suffered an on-set accident in 2006 during filming of a movie and suffered partial paralysis of her face for some time
• Earned early acclaim for her role on "Beverly Hills, 90210" in which she portrayed a character almost half of her age, 16-year-old Andrea Zuckerman
• Left "Beverly Hills, 90210" in 1995 to host her own daytime talk show, "Gabrielle", however, the program would only last one season
• Traveled across Europe at 16-years-old performing as a mime