- She has portrayed a large number of real-life characters, including Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, and Hitler's favorite photographer, Leni Riefenstahl.
- Frequently appears in the films of director Atom Egoyan.
- Probably best known to UK audiences for her appearances as Brenda in Yorkshire Television's Rising Damp (1974-78).
- Gained 15 pounds for her role in The Sweet Hereafter (1997).
- Gabrielle and her husband, Hrothgar Mathews, have a son, Liam.
- Her grandfather, Arthur Rose, wrote for the musical stage in England, and her father, Ian Rose, was a child actor there. Eventually Gabrielle returned to England herself to study acting.
- She has guest starred in the second episode of the first season of two different TV shows; "Deep Throat" in The X-Files (1993) and "Metamorphosis" in Smallville (2001).
- In 2000, she added her voice to a Canadian Heritage Moment commercial for the Terrace massacre.
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