Vanessa Branch (born 21 March 1973; age 51) is the actress who played the adult version of Naomi Wildman in the Star Trek: Voyager seventh season episode "Shattered".
She is perhaps best known for her role of Giselle in all of the Pirates of the Caribbean films with fellow Trek alum Lee Arenberg. She is also known in North America as the Orbit Gum television commercial woman from 2002 to 2010 (whose catchphrase is "Fabulous!", as well as initially asking, "Dirty mouth?").
She has dual US/UK citizenship, having been born in London before moving to the United States, where she won Miss Vermont 1994 while in her senior year of college.
Branch guest starred in episodes of series such as Entourage, J.J. Abrams' Lost (starring Daniel Dae Kim and Terry O'Quinn), Gilmore Girls, Monk (starring Ted Levine, with Stanley Kamel and Michael Cavanaugh), CSI: Miami (with James G. MacDonald), Criminal Minds (directed by Douglas Aarniokoski), Bones, and Perception (with LeVar Burton and Spencer Garrett). In 2014, she appeared in five episodes of Days of Our Lives (with James Read), again playing a character named Giselle.
Besides her role in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, she also appeared in films like The Cell (2000, with John Cothran, Jr.), John Q. (2002, with Larissa Laskin), In Enemy Hands (2004, with Sonny Surowiec), Suburban Girl (2007), All Roads Lead Home (2008, with Patton Oswalt), Post Grad (2009), and 51 (2011).
In 2008, she appeared in the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 along with George Takei.
External links[]
- Vanessa Branch at Wikipedia
- Vanessa Branch at the Internet Movie Database
- Vanessa Branch – personal appearance information