Gabrielle just completed four roles in Jessie nominated Angels in America Part One- Millennium Approaches
One of Canada’s most respected actors with over 160 film and television credits, Gabrielle Rose is very proud of her role in the feature film Maudie. Gabrielle has been invited to attend Maudie when it opens at AMC Lowes Theater in Lincoln Square on June 6th. The film has received overwhelming success in film festivals world-wide and in theatres across Canada. In Maudie Gabrielle plays Maud’s Aunt Ida. The film stars Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky, Blue Jasmine) and Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight, Training Day, Boyhood). Gabrielle had to age twenty-five plus years for the second half of her role in the film. It is a female driven production, with Irish Director Aisling Walsh, written by Sherry White and produced by Mary Young Leckie, Mary Sexton, Heather Haldane and Robert M Cooper. Maudie is an iconic Canadian story about a female folk artist.
With unforgettable performances by Academy Award® nominees Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, this Irish-Canadian co-production is based on a true story, of an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent to live away from her protective family (Aunt Ida) and she also yearns, passionately, to create art. Unexpectedly, Everett finds himself falling in love. Maudie charts Everett’s efforts to protect himself from being hurt, Maudie’s deep and abiding love for this difficult man and her surprising rise to fame as a folk painter.
Gabrielle is nominated for best supporting actress/Large theatre for the upcoming Jessie Awards honoring the best in Vancouver’s vibrant theatre scene for her four roles of two men – The Rabbi and Dr. Henry and two women – Hannah and Ethel Rosenberg in Angels in America/Part One- Millennium Approaches which has 9 nominations including Best Production. The Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards Ceremony will be held at the Commodore Ballroom, on Monday, June 26, 2017. Part Two – Perestroika opens in September.
With a number of stage credits to her name, Gabrielle has already won three Jessie Awards. Her acclaimed roles include Martha in Edward Albee‘s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elizabeth Rex, The Memory of Water, The Blue Light, The Glass Menagerie, and Doubt, Robin Baitz’, Other Desert Cities and more recently “The Rivals”.
She most recently received the Sam Payne Lifetime Achievement Award for her accumulative outstanding body of work in the performing arts. Gabrielle has worked repeatedly with some of Canada’s most notable directors including Atom Egoyan (The Adjuster, The Sweet Hereafter), Bruce Sweeney (Excited, The Dick Knost Show, Crimes of Mike Recket) and Carl Bessai (Sisters & Brothers, Mothers & Daughters).
She is a multiple Gemini and Genie Award nominee for both her film and television roles. Gabrielle’s critically acclaimed work includes an impressive list of film credits to include The Sweet Hereafter, which received the National Board of Reviews Best Ensemble Cast Award and the Artistic Achievement Award at the Vancouver Film Festival. The Rhino Brothers earned her a Leo Award. Other films include The Adjuster, The Five Senses, Speaking Parts in which she was again nominated for Genie, Family Viewing in which she was nominated for a Genie and The Adjuster. In the feature film Excited directed by Bruce Sweeney she nabbed both a Leo Award and Vancouver Critics Award. Other recent feature films include Two4One directed by Maureen Bradley, the award winning feature The Birdwatcher and a role in Connor Gaston’s Leo Award winning The Devout. Other works include The Rhino Brothers, which earned her a Leo Award, Carl Bessais’ Mothers and Daughters, Gabrielle secured both a jury prize at the Calgary International Film Festival and a Genie nomination.
More recently, in Amblin Entertainment’s A Dog’s Purpose directed by Academy Award® Nominee Lasse Hallstrom (Cider House Rules, Chocolat), Gabrielle plays Grandma Fran alongside Peggy Lipton, Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid. The film has earned more than 192 million worldwide according to Box Office Mojo.
Gabrielle had a lead role in Bruce Sweeney’s The Dick Knost Show, which received the Spotlight Award for best BC film at VIFF in 2013, and marked her first foray into executive producing. Gabrielle won the UBCP/ ACTRA award for her performance in Sweeney’s Crimes of Mike Recket, and received her fifth Leo for her performance in The Corpse and the Courier. Gabrielle was honored to get the chance to play Gran in If I Stay, alongside Stacey Keach and directed by RJ Cutler. She can also be seen in a cameo role as the French proprietress in Hector and the Search for Happiness.
On television, her credits include series recurring roles in A Man in a High Castle, Proof, Once Upon A Time, Robson Arms, Three Moons Over Milford, and Exes and Ohs and has starred in Taken, Battlestar Galactica, Sanctuary, Tom Stone, Win Again, Milgaard, The Sleep Room, The X-Files, Shattered and many more. Gabrielle received a Leo Award for Best Guest Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for her role in Sanctuary and reprised her role as Samantha on the hit series Continuum.
She is the recipient of the 2007 Woman of the Year award at the Vancouver Women in Film and Television Spotlight Awards. She is passionately committed to Canadian film, television and theatre. In January 2016, the Vancouver Film Critic Circle awarded the Ian Caddell Award to Gabrielle. The Whistler International Film Festival presented Gabrielle with the Maven Award in 2016. WFF acknowledges Gabrielle for her dedication to BC’s film industry and support of filmmakers, and in particular for helping to unite strong women in film. She is a recipient of the UBCP/ACTRA Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction award and the Sam Payne Lifetime Achievement award.
Gabrielle’s awards include a UBCP/ACTRA Award for Best Actress, five Leo Awards, two Atlantic Film Festival Awards, a National Board of Review (NY) Award. She has been nominated five times for a Gemini and four times for a Genie. She has received a Fright award and a Maverick award.
Gabrielle is available for interviews upon request.
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