Gabrielle Carteris Bio, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Paralyzed, Movies, TV Shows

Gabrielle Carteris Biography

Gabrielle Carteris is an American actress and trade union leader who is best known for her acting role as Andrea Zuckerman during the early seasons of the 1990s television series Beverly Hills, 90210.

In 2012, she was elected as executive vice president of SAG-AFTRA, a trade union representing over 100,000 actors and other professionals mainly in the United States. Following the death of Ken Howard, the president of the union on March 23, 2016, Gabrielle assumed the position of acting president and on April 9, 2016, she was elected SAG-AFTRA president.

Gabrielle Carteris Age

Gabrielle Carteris was born on January 2, 1961 in Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. She is 58 years old as of 2018.

Gabrielle Carteris Husband

Carteris is married to Charles Isaacs, a stockbroker since 1992. The couple has two daughters named Kelsey Rose (born May 11, 1994) and Mollie Elizabeth (born 1999).

Gabrielle Carteris Net Worth

Carteris has an estimated of $3 million. Acting is the primary source of income.

Gabrielle Carteris Parents

Carteris was born to Marlene, a realtor and Ernest J. Carteris, a restaurant owner. Carteris has a twin brother called James. Her mother is Jewish whereas her father was of Greek ancestry.

Gabrielle Carteris Paralyzed

In the March 17, 2008 issue of People magazine, Carteris described an injury suffered in 2006, while filming a TV movie in Vancouver, British Columbia. The injury partially paralyzed her face and affected her speech for more than six months.

Gabrielle Carteris Education

Carteris went to Redwood High School in Larkspur, California, where she took an interest in the arts, studying ballet and performing as a mime on a European tour, when she was 16 years old. Carteris graduated in 1983 from Sarah Lawrence College, with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts.

Gabrielle Carteris Career

After Carteris graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, her 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, she was cast in her best known role as studious school newspaper editor Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210. At 29 years old, Carteris was the oldest cast member to portray a 15-year-old.

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

Gabrielle Carteris SAG-AFTRA

In 2012, 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. After the death of president Ken Howard, Carteris became acting president of the union on March 23, 2016 and was elected president on April 9, 2016. Carteris also serves as vice president of the California Labor Federation.

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