Gillian White

Gillian White is an actor who was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Altadena, California, and has worked in film and television for more than two decades. Her first break came in music videos, in LL Cool J's Hey Lover and Dr. Dre's Been There, Done That, and she moved from there into television, playing Cole's girlfriend on Martin, and into features with her first role in How To Be a Player. She went on to guest spots on sitcoms and dramas and small parts in films such as Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown and Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000). Her own favorite roles were the Amazon warrior Amoria on Xena: Warrior Princess, which was shot in New Zealand, and her recurring part as the villain China Lee Arvin on Days of Our Lives. She studied at Howard University on an LAPD scholarship before switching her focus to Human Communication with a minor in Dramatic Arts.