Gabriella Cirillo

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Gabriella Cirillo () is an actress, dancer, MC and casting director.

Also known as Gabriella Cirillo Cicoria or Gabriella Lucia Cirillo.

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Biography

She studied Performing Arts and Drama at Pretoria Technikon in South Africa.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

As an actress and performer

She is a familiar face on local South African TV, having performed in numerous TV commercials and TV series, including Egoli, The Lab and The Wild.

International film and TV roles include appearances in Black Velvet Band (1997), The Adventures of Sinbad (1998), Merlin: The Return (2000), Hey Boy (2003),


Dam 5.6 TV Series Innocentia 2021 8 episodes

Kay Sibiya in Agent (2019) Agent 7.5 TV Series Jackie East 2019 13 episodes

Good Omens (2019) Good Omens 8.0 TV Series Anathema's Mother 2019 1 episode

Bedford Wives (2017) Bedford Wives 5.5 TV Series Gigi Giannopoulos 2017 13 episodes

Shotgun Garfunkel (2013) Shotgun Garfunkel 8.2 Isabella (as Gabriella Cirillo Cicoria) 2013

Amanda Holden, Stephen Tompkinson, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Rafaella Hutchinson, and Luke Ward-Wilkinson in Wild at Heart (2006) Wild at Heart 7.4 TV Series Kim Ferreira 2012 1 episode

Shogun Khumalo Is Dying! Short Alice 2006

Straight Outta Benoni (2005) Straight Outta Benoni 4.9 Casting director 2005

Der weisse Afrikaner (2004) Der weisse Afrikaner 6.3 TV Series Mathilde 2004

As a casting agent and director

She founded the G-Casting agency in 2002 and in 2015 she co-founded The Casting Couch with her friend and business partner Petro Magos. Over the years she has cast various commercials and TV series, including Straight Outta Benoni (2005), Shogun Khumalo Is Dying! (2006), The Lab (2006), Rakka (2017), Firebase (2017), Legacy (2020), Dam (2021).

In 2007 she won a SAFTA for "Best Ensemble Cast" for The Lab.

Other activities

She also works as an MC and is a passionate Latin American and Ballroom Dancer, she won the title of Miss Italy in South Africa in the year 2000.

She has also performed in and co-choreographed two burlesque shows, Boylesque and Welcome to Burlesque.

Sources

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0162747/


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