Gabrielle Union

Gabrielle Monique UnionWade is an American actress. She began her career in 1990s, appearing on television sitcoms, before landing supporting roles in teen comedy films Shes All That andThings I Hate About You . Her breakthrough role was in the 2000 teen comedy film Bring It On, after which she was female lead in the shortlived CBS medical drama series City of Angels later that year.

Gabrielle Union was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of Theresa , a phone company manager and social worker, and Sylvester E. Union, a business executive and military sergeant. She was raised Catholic and to be an independent woman, standing on my own two feet, and thats the road I opted to take. Unions earliest memory is playing catch with her father. As a child, Union had no friends. According to Union, her mother taught her to have a world perspective and took her to a gay pride parade at the age of eight after the family moved to Pleasanton, California, where she was raised. Her parents divorced afteryears of marriage and Union said, They handled their divorce and our subsequent transition into a blended family with grace and dignity and respect. They always put us first and didnt involve us. Im lucky that I can just mirror what my parents did and always put the kids first. Theyre pretty awesome, Im lucky.

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