15 Facts About Gabrielle Anwar

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Gabrielle Anwar is known for her television roles as Sam Black in the second series of Press Gang, as Margaret Tudor in the first season of The Tudors, as Lady Tremaine in the seventh season of Once Upon a Time, and for her starring role as Fiona Glenanne on the USA network television series Burn Notice.

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Gabrielle Anwar's mother, Shirley Hills, is an actress, and her father, Tariq Anwar, is a film producer and editor.

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Gabrielle Anwar's paternal grandmother was an Austrian Jew, while her paternal grandfather was an Indian Muslim.

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Gabrielle Anwar attended Laleham C of E Primary and Middle School from 1975 to 1982; an end-of-term St Trinian's sketch in the school concert of 1982 gave an early indication of her theatrical leanings.

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Gabrielle Anwar studied drama and dance at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London.

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Gabrielle Anwar's acting debut was in the 1986 British miniseries Hideaway.

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Gabrielle Anwar starred in the music video to Paul McCartney's "Pretty Little Head".

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8.

Gabrielle Anwar's film debut was Manifesto, which was followed by more British television productions including First Born, Summer's Lease, Press Gang, and The Mysteries of the Dark Jungle.

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Gabrielle Anwar appeared in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' music video for Into the Great Wide Open.

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Gabrielle Anwar starred in Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, and one of her most memorable moments on screen was in 1992's Scent of a Woman, when she danced a tango with Al Pacino, whose character was blind.

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Gabrielle Anwar followed that with the films Body Snatchers, For Love or Money, and The Three Musketeers.

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Gabrielle Anwar appeared in the television series John Doe and acted in The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines.

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Gabrielle Anwar played a role in the seventh season of Once Upon a Time.

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Gabrielle Anwar and actor Craig Sheffer had a daughter, born 1993, before separating.

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Gabrielle Anwar was later married to actor John Verea, with whom she had a son and a daughter, before divorcing.