Gabrielle Union
Biography
Gabrielle Union is an American actress and author born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in California. She began her career with television sitcom appearances in the 1990s before supporting roles in the 1999 teen films She's All That and 10 Things I Hate About You. Her breakthrough came with Bring It On (2000). She became known for romantic comedies such as The Brothers (2001), Deliver Us from Eva (2003), Daddy's Little Girls (2007), Think Like a Man (2012), and Think Like a Man Too (2014). She also starred in Bad Boys II (2003), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Neo Ned (2005), Cadillac Records (2008), Top Five (2014), Breaking In (2018), and The Perfect Find (2023). On television, she led the drama series Being Mary Jane, earning an NAACP Image Award, and later L.A.'s Finest. She has written memoirs, including We're Going to Need More Wine (2017), and children's books.
54years old
Turns 55 on October 29in 353 days
- Born Omaha
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Gabrielle Monique Union (birth name)Also credited as Gabrielle Monique Union-Wade and Gabrielle Union-Wade
Movie Career
- Films
- 43
- Career span
- 27 years1999 to 2026
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Big break
Union played Isis in Bring It On, the cheerleading film that pushed her into the mainstream and led to her being cast in the CBS drama City of Angels.
A role that slipped away
Union lost the role of Olivia Pope in Scandal to Kerry Washington, but said she got something better: her own show, Being Mary Jane.
Behind the award
Union won Best Actress at the Palm Beach International Film Festival for Neo Ned, playing an African-American woman who believes she is Adolf Hitler.
Gabrielle Union movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Tim Story directed two of these films, Tyler Perry two and Gary Hardwick two. Two actors appear in five of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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All films by Tim Story
All films by Tyler Perry
Gary HardwickDirector, 2 films, 2001 to 2003
All films by Gary Hardwick
Also four films together1 more actor
- La La AnthonyThe Perfect Find (2023), Think Like a Man Too (2014), Think Like a Man (2012) and Two Can Play That Game (2001)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Gabrielle Union's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.4 billion
31 of the 43 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 43 films: 31 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 7 never in cinemas; 3 figure not found.
- 31Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 7Never in cinemas
- 3Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 67% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$273M19.0% of the total
- 2$194M13.5% of the total
- 3$103M7.2% of the total
- 4$96M6.7% of the total
- 5$90M6.3% of the total
- 6$74M5.1% of the total
- 7$70M4.9% of the total
- 8$57M3.9% of the total
$480 millionfrom the other 23 films with a worldwide figure, 33% of the total