Gabrielle Bennett

Gabriela Rozzi-Nelson (born June 16, 1962), aka Gabrielle Bennett, Gabby Nelson, is a Native American-Hispanic model, singer, dancer and actress.
Gabriela was born in Los Angeles, CA. She began her career as a dancer in the 1976 musical film Grease, and as beauty queen and model in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her titles that included Miss International Beauty and Miss Hollywood in 1981; during the latter she performed in a televised screen test with actor Edward Albert, Jr. She traveled extensively as a USO performer with Bob Hope from 1980-1984, and appeared in a number of music videos, including Michael Bolton's Soul Provider, and for Miami Sound Machine and The New Christy Minstrels.
During this time, she toured with two celebrity softball teams of models and actresses, The Hollywood Covergirls, and later, the Hollywood Starlets, making appearances for charitable causes before major and minor league baseball games. Gabriela is best remembered as 'Carla', the female drummer, of the NBC Saturday morning hit tv series, Kidd Video who sang and played on the actual soundtracks for the show and in the music videos from 1984 through 1987.
Gabriela went on to make television and film appearances, including Saved By the Bell, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mambo Kings, and numerous commercials. She recorded the soundtracks for the international versions of the Disney films, providing the voices for Pocahontas, Jasmine, Mulan and Ariel. In 1994 Gabriela decided to settle into motherhood full time, and in 1998, she met and married her husband - a Naval Special Warfare sailor. Gabriela’s career as a military wife began and they moved from the West Coast, to Puerto Rico, to Virginia Beach, Virginia, and to Germany where she currently resides. She continued to work in regional theater in Virginia, and with the New English American Theater, Kelley Theatre Center, and Stuttgart Theatre Center in Germany.
Gabriela was recently reunited with a fellow Kidd Video cast member, Robbie Rist, in June 2012, and they performed a song together during his show. She is currently working on an original project for the Latin performing arts community, a script, entitled, La Costurera/The Seamstress, and working towards a Kidd Video reunion in the near future.
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Stage:
2013- Currently working on the new original musical, Sleepy Hollow, with the Stuttgart Theatre Center
2012- Cinderella The Musical: Fairy Godmother; Kelley Theatre Center- Germany
2011- Dracula: Vampiress; Kelley Theatre Center- Germany
2011-present -Worked with the NEAT Company- Germany (New English American Theater): Starring in Love Letters, and Will and Whimsy
Screen:
2012- Featured in the movie- Killing All the Flies: Detective Amelia Duarte
1996- Soundtrack work for Disney International as the voice of Pocahontas, Jasmine, Mulan and Ariel (International Release)
1992- Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Peep show girl
1976- Grease- dancer (uncredited)
Television:
1991- Saved By The Bell; NBC / Disney Channel- episode: The Surgery: Nurse
1984-1987- Kidd Video; NBC / CBS role: Carla
1984-present- Commercials: numerous National and International spots to include: Toyota, Got Milk?, Breck Shampoo, Dr. Pepper, Maybelline and L’Oreal

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