Габриэль Картерис: от Беверли-Хиллз до президентства SAG-AFTRA

American actress (born 1961)

Gabrielle Anne Carteris (/k//ɑːr/'/t//ɛr//ɪ//s/ karTERRiss; born January 2, 1961) is an American actress and trade union leader. Her best known acting role is as Andrea Zuckerman in Beverly Hills, 90210. In 2012, Carteris was elected executive vice president of SAG AFTRA, a trade union representing over 100,000 actors and other professionals mainly in the United States. 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 by national board to serve out the remainder of Howard's term. She was re elected to the position in August 2017 and August 2019 by full membership vote.

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 whereas 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, By 1993, while working for the show, her GABCO Productions company signed a deal with Rysher TPE. 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 voiceover artist, amassing a considerable amount of post 90210 credits in television, film, and video games. She has gone on to become a mainstay in television films, 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, Criminal Minds, and NCIS, among others. She has appeared in several feature films. Carteris provided the voice for the Motorola intelligent assistant "Mya". In 2019, Carteris appeared on Fox's BH90210 reboot, appearing both as Andrea Zuckerman and herself. The fictionalized version of herself was portrayed as sexually questioning and engaged in a brief relationship with former 90210 guest star turned fictional Fox executive Christine Elise.

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, by the national board of the union to complete Howard's remainder of his two year term. In August 2020, she announced that there would be sharp cuts, including a raise in the earnings floor to qualify for next year's SAG AFTRA Health Plan due to two consecutive years of deficits and projected losses in years to come. Carteris did not seek re election in 2021, backing Fran Drescher as her successor instead.

While filming the pilot of Beverly Hills, 90210, Carteris began dating Charles Isaacs, a stockbroker. In 1991, Isaacs moved to Los Angeles to be with her. Carteris and Isaacs have two daughters.