Gabrielle Scharnitzky

Gabrielle Scharnitzky, of east-prussian descent, was born in a small Bavarian town in Germany. The third and youngest daughter of Egon G. Scharnitzky, a landscape architect, and Apollonia Bösl, a secretary, Gabrielle always found ways to express herself through acting, dancing, singing or ice-skating. 9 years old, she won her first award - a green stuffed frog - for her first theatre play she had written, directed and acted in. However her first profession was to become a travel agent. After finishing her apprenticeship in Bavaria, she started working for Pan American Airways at Berlin Tegel-Airport. Her first encounter with Hollywood was in 1984, when she had a one-liner opposite Matt Dillon in Arthur Penn's Thriller "Target". This moment changed her life. 29 years old, she stopped working for Pan Am and started to study acting in New York and Rome with prolific acting coaches such as Susan Batson, Geraldine Baron, Uta Hagen, Diane Kagan, Sam Christensen, Dominic de Fazio. Since the