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Who's that Girl?
Vancouver's Film Festival Star, Gabrielle Miller.
Cover Girl Gabrielle Miller, star of TV's "Robson Arms" and "Corner Gas" could be on of the fall film festivals big comedic actress sensations.
"For all those people in the dark," the pout'y lips and comely countenance of Gabrielle Miller will loom twenty-feet high on the big screen at the Ridge Theatre this fall during the world premiere of the comedy romance, "Love and Other Dilemmas". Starring in the ensemble cast, Miller is best-known for her TV role as Lacey Burrows, the sweet and wholesome but quirky owner of the Ruby café on CTV's "Corner Gas". Just voted "favourite Canadian female star" in the TV Guide Reader's Poll, her role in the highest-rated comedy program in Canadian television history, has also garnered her industry acknowledgment with two Leo's, this year and last.
The kicker is the raven-haired beauty, with the seductive Lis Taylor eyes has only recently been know for her comedy. The Vancouver actress who describes her humour as "character-based" has deep roots in the dramatic tradition. Acting since 17, Miller was trained at the North Vancouver-based Breck Academy for the Performing Arts and early in her career worked for numerous feature films, including her debut in "Digger" with Olympia Dukakis and Joshua Jackson. But it was in mostly locally-filmed television that she was able to make a decent living. Her numerous TV credits include notable episodic appearances from the "X-Files", "The Twilight Zone" and "Stargate SG-1" to "Frasier, where she got to exercise her comic chops.
At 32, she has found her niche in Canada's top two TV comedies (Vancouver based "Robson Arms" is the other) and now the B.C.-produced, "Love and Other Dilemmas is expected to be the people's choice at the Vancouver International Film Festival. She couldn't have done it without the homegrown industry.