Gabrielle Carteris Biography

Gabrielle Anne Carteris (born January 2, 1961) is an American actress and trade union leader. Her best known acting role was as Andrea Zuckerman during the early seasons of the 1990s television series Beverly Hills, 90210.

In 2012, Carteris was elected as executive vice president of the actor's union, SAG-AFTRA. She assumed the position of acting president of the union following the death of the previous president Ken Howard on March 23, 2016. On April 9, 2016, Carteris was elected SAG-AFTRA president.

Early years

Carteris was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, to Marlene, a realtor, and Ernest J. Carteris, a restaurant owner. She has a twin brother, James. Her father was of Greek ancestry and her mother is Jewish. Her parents separated six months after her birth. Carteris's mother moved with her children to San Francisco, California, where she set up a children's clothing store. While attending Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, she took an interest in the arts, studying ballet and performing as a mime on a European tour, at 16 years old. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, in 1983, with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts.

Career

After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, Carteris' early television career found her typically cast as a teenager in such fare as ABC Afterschool Specials, CBS Schoolbreak Special, and the long-running soap opera Another World. This trend of playing significantly younger would continue when, in 1990, Carteris was cast in her best known role as studious school newspaper editor Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210. At age 29, she was the oldest cast member to portray a 15-year-old.

Carteris left the series in 1995 and became the host of her own television talk show, entitled Gabrielle, which lasted only one season. She worked regularly as an actor and voice over artist, amassing a considerable amount of post-90210 credits in television, film, and video games. She's gone on to become a mainstay on the made-for-television movie circuit, starring in nearly a dozen such films. Her first, Seduced and Betrayed, was released in 1995. She later became a regular presence on network television, appearing in episodes of such television series as Touched by an Angel, King of the Hill, NYPD Blue, JAG, and Criminal Minds, among others. She has appeared in several feature films. Carteris provided the voice for the Motorola intelligent assistant, "Mya",

SAG-AFTRA

Carteris became the executive vice president of SAG-AFTRA, following the Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) merger, in 2012. She became acting president of the union, following the death of president Ken Howard, on March 23, 2016, and was elected president on April 9, 2016. She also serves as vice president of the California Labor Federation.

Personal life

She married Charles Isaacs, a stockbroker, in 1992, and has two daughters with him named Kelsey Rose (born May 11, 1994) and Mollie Elizabeth (born 1999). In the March 17, 2008 issue of People magazine, Carteris described an injury suffered while filming a TV movie in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2006, which partially paralyzed her face and affected her speech for more than six months.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Jacknife	College Girl in Bar
1992	Raising Cain	Nan
1997	Meet Wally Sparks	Herself
2001	Full Circle	Alice
2001	Malpractice	Ellen Robertson
2005	'	(voice)
2007	Plot 7	Amy McCarthy
2008	Dimples	Sharon
2009	Print	Kathy

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Nancy	Episode: "What If I'm Gay?"
1987	ABC Afterschool Special	Leslie	Episode: "Seasonal Differences"
1988	ABC Afterschool Special	Cecile	Episode: "Date Rape"
1988	Another World	Tracy Julian	TV series
1990-1996 1998, 2000	Beverly Hills, 90210	Andrea Zuckerman	Main Role; 145 episodes
1994	Gargoyles	Amy Schummer (voice)	Episode: "And Justice for All"
1995	Seduced and Betrayed	Cheryl Hiller	TV movie
1995	Mixed Blessings	Diana Goode Douglas	TV movie
1996	To Face Her Past	Megan Hollander	TV movie
1996	Touched by an Angel	April Campbell	Episode: "The Portrait of Mrs. Campbell"
1997	Johnny Bravo	Various (voice)	2 episodes
1998	Touched by an Angel	Linda Craig	Episode: "The Trigger"
1998	'	Brenda	Episode: "All Aboard"
1999	King of the Hill	Julie / Rita Bevacqua (voice)	Episode: "Take Me Out of the Ball Game"
1999	The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot	Dr. Erika Slate	TV series
2000	Batman Beyond	Sable Thorpe (voice)	Episode: "King's Ransom"
2001	Strong Medicine	Freddie Gosling	Episode: "Mortality"
2001	JAG	Michelle Stoechler	Episode: "Mixed Messages"
2002	Trapped: Buried Alive	Emily Cooper	TV movie
2002	NYPD Blue	Miss Griffin	Episode: "Low Blow"
2002	For the People	Tracy Smith	Episode: "Textbook Perfect"
2003	'	Mrs. Akil	Episode: "An Isolated Incident"
2003	'	Jane Sherman (voice)	Episode: "Old Friends"
2003	Nip/Tuck	Ellie Collins	Episode: "Kurt Dempsey"
2004	Combustion	Lourie Harper	TV movie
2005	Palmetto Pointe	Mrs. Jones	Episode: "Hello, Goodbye"
2005	'	Det. Sparks	TV movie
2005	Crossing Jordan	Dawn McGuire	Episode: "Enlightment"
2005	Deck the Halls	Holly Hall	TV movie
2006	Drake & Josh	Dr. Phyllis Tupper	Episode: "Dr. Phyllis Show"
2006	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Additional Voices (voice)	Episode: "The Blind Bandit"
2006	'	Actress on TV (uncredited)	TV movie
2008	Dan's Detour of Life	Cindy Ford	TV movie
2008	My Alibi	Principal Tuckerman	14 episodes
2010	Criminal Minds	Nancy Campbell	Episode: "Solitary Man"
2011	'	Diane Geller	Episode: "Turnabout" Episode: "A Message Back"
2011	Make It or Break It	Doctor	Episode: "Requiem for a Dream"
2011	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Vicky Vale (voice) Laethwen (voice)	Episode: "Battle of the Superheroes!" Episode: "Sword of the Atom!"
2011	12 Wishes of Christmas	Sandra	TV movie
2013	The Middle	Colleen	Episode: "The Friend"
2013	Longmire	Barbara Bollman	Episode: "Party's Over"
2015	Code Black	Nurse Amy Wolfowitz	Recurring role (season 1)
2016	The Suicide Note		TV movie

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	La Pucelle: Tactics	Angelique
2002	Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale II
2002	Minority Report: Everybody Runs	Agatha Lively
2003	Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits	Nafia
2004	Shout About Movies	Voice-over
2006	Marvel: Ultimate Alliance	Electra Natchios / Enchantress
2007	Spider-Man 3	Additional Voices
2009	Bionic Commando	Jayne 'Mag' Magdalene / Radio Operator