JENNY GABRIELLE
(Blue)

Jenny Gabrielle answers some questions about 'Blue'.

Jenny Gabrielle wanted to be a ballerina, when at the age of 9 she was cast as the whirlwind in the Wizard of OZ. She has wanted to be an actress ever since. When she was 14, she was accepted to the Interlochen Arts Academy. There she studied theatre and visual art, quite contentedly, until she read a lot of books about the glory of experiencing life first hand. One of them was Boleslavsky's "THE FIRST SIX LESSONS." " It says to act you must first live, and I wanted to do that." So at the end of her sophomore year, she took up a 4 year trek of Greyhound buses and hitch hiking around the United States that would lead her at different times to: a Catholic monastery in the mountains of New Mexico, a Buddhist commune in Taos, a shack in the wilderness without running water, and "various sofas across the Northwest."

At the age of 19, she settled down in Santa Fe, long enough to save up for a trip to Scotland and Ireland. She would stay overseas for a year. "A group of us got real close, we were all foreigners and young, so when everyone started to go back to their own separate countries, I decided to go to Los Angeles and study theatre with acting teacher Eric Morris. I was low on cash, so I hitched to Germany, where my flight left from."

For three years she lived in the heart of Hollywood, in a little room "sans toilet above a nightclub." Her apprenticeship with Eric Morris had begun, (she would study with him for 3 years). "I called him right out of the blue from a payphone in Ireland, and then when I arrived I got a job doing lights at the theatre across from his, so I forced myself to run into him; I was so scared." Though registering slight underground fame as Tamara the Punk Rock Girl in a Queers video, her career consisted of student films, theatre, and shorts until she was inspired by her teacher one night in class to try to contact Henry Jaglom. "I was crazy about his work and Eric thought I'd be perfect for his films. So I called him. And then Eric talked to him and so..."

Jenny was brought to France to play the part of Blue in "Festival in Cannes." " It was a dream. After the filming I wanted to stay in Europe very badly." A few months later she found herself working with a friend on a play in Vienna, and then landed a bit part in a German soap, with only a rudimentary understanding of the language. Now she resides very happily in Venice, CA~ "the best place outside of Europe." She continues her work in indy films and is doing pre-production on a feature film of her own. That is, until she gets wanderlust again.