Gabrielle Rose
GABRIELLE ROSE (Birdy) is a veteran of film, TV and Stage. The past year has been a busy one, with several projects completed. Two4One, directed by Maureen Bradley, recently screened at the Vancouver Film Festival and was the opening gala film at the Available Light film Festival in Whitehorse, Yukon. She was seen on stage in Robin Baitz’, Other Desert Cities at the Arts Club and earlier this year, reprised her role as Samantha on the hit series Continuum.
Gabrielle was honoured 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 Pursuit of Happiness, starring Simon Pegg and directed by Peter Chelsom. In early 2015, Gabrielle is scheduled to play a role in Connor Gaston’s upcoming feature The Devout.
In 2014, 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 in November of 2013, and received her fifth Leo for her performance in The Corpse and the Courier, last May.
Gabrielle has done numerous other features, including Atom Egoyan’s films, The Sweet Hereafter, which received the National board of Reviews best ensemble cast award, Family Viewing, in which she was nominated for a Genie, Speaking Parts, in which she was again nominated for Genie, and The Adjuster. Other works include The Rhino Brothers, which earned her a Leo Award, and Excited, where she nabbed both a Leo Award and Vancouver Critics Award. In Car Bessais’ Mothers and Daughters, which screened at the Calgary Film Festival, Gabrielle secured both a jury prize and a Genie nomination.
Recently Gabrielle has been very pleased to partake in several mentorship programs for Langara Film School, Women in Film and TV Vancouver, and FYA. Gabrielle was a recipient of a Walk of Fame star in 2009 and received ‘ Woman of the Year’ honours from WIFT-V in 2008.
Gabrielle was honoured 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 Pursuit of Happiness, starring Simon Pegg and directed by Peter Chelsom. In early 2015, Gabrielle is scheduled to play a role in Connor Gaston’s upcoming feature The Devout.
In 2014, 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 in November of 2013, and received her fifth Leo for her performance in The Corpse and the Courier, last May.
Gabrielle has done numerous other features, including Atom Egoyan’s films, The Sweet Hereafter, which received the National board of Reviews best ensemble cast award, Family Viewing, in which she was nominated for a Genie, Speaking Parts, in which she was again nominated for Genie, and The Adjuster. Other works include The Rhino Brothers, which earned her a Leo Award, and Excited, where she nabbed both a Leo Award and Vancouver Critics Award. In Car Bessais’ Mothers and Daughters, which screened at the Calgary Film Festival, Gabrielle secured both a jury prize and a Genie nomination.
Recently Gabrielle has been very pleased to partake in several mentorship programs for Langara Film School, Women in Film and TV Vancouver, and FYA. Gabrielle was a recipient of a Walk of Fame star in 2009 and received ‘ Woman of the Year’ honours from WIFT-V in 2008.