Gabrielle Union Bio | Wiki
Gabrielle Union is an American actress. Her career commenced in the 1990s when she made dozens of appearances on television sitcoms. Later, Union landed supporting roles in the 1999 teen films She’s All That and 10 Things I Hate About You.
She rose to greater prominence the following year after she starred in the romantic sports drama film Love & Basketball. Subsequently, Union landed her breakthrough role in the teen film Bring It On.
Gabrielle Union Age
Union was born on October 29, 1972, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. She is 50 years old.
Gabrielle Union Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.71 m).
Gabrielle Union Family
She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to her parents Theresa and Sylvester E. Union. Union’s mother is a phone company manager and social worker, and her father is a military sergeant. She was raised Catholic alongside her two siblings Kelly and Tracy.
Union’s parents divorced after 30 years of marriage. During the summer before starting her sophomore year of college at UCLA, at the age of 19, Union was attacked and raped at gunpoint at her part-time job at a Payless shoe store by a robber.
Gabrielle Union Husband
Union met NFL player Chris Howard at a party in 1999. They married on May 5, 2001, and separated in October 2005. The divorce was finalized in 2006. Union said that when she got divorced she “sort of realized that she hadn’t been making sound choices which were the best for her to pursue her hopes and dreams and aspirations and passions.”
Dwyane Wade And Gabrielle Union
In 2008, she began dating NBA player Dwyane Wade. The two married on August 30, 2014, in Miami, Florida, and she became a stepmother to his three children. Union stated in an interview prior to the marriage that she and Wade would be signing a prenuptial agreement to protect their individual assets.
Union and Wade spent their honeymoon in the Maldives and Tanzania. On November 7, 2018, they welcomed their daughter, Kaavia, who was born via surrogate.
Gabrielle Union Education
According to Union, her mother taught her to have a “world perspective” and took her to a gay pride parade at the age of eight after the family moved to Pleasanton, California. She attended Foothill High School. Later, she earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from UCLA.
Gabrielle Union Movies
2013 Miss Dial
2013 The Door
2014 Think Like a Man Too
2014 Top Five
2016 The Birth of a Nation
2016 Almost Christmas
2017 Sleepless
2017 Girls Trip
2018 The Public
2018 Breaking In
2020 Fearless
2022 Cheaper by the Dozen
2022 The Inspection
TBA The Perfect Find
Gabrielle Union Bring It On
In 2000, she performed the role of Isis in the cheerleading movie Bring It On. Bring It On helped push Union into the mainstream. Bring It On led to Union being cast in the CBS television drama City of Angels as Dr. Courtney Ellis.
Gabrielle Union Book
Outside of acting, Union has written four books: two memoirs, titled We’re Going to Need More Wine (2017) and You Got Anything Stronger? (2021), and two children’s books, titled Welcome to the Party (2020) and Shady Baby (2021).
Gabrielle Union Christmas Movies
Union starred with Morris Chestnut in the 2007 Christmas film The Perfect Holiday. Since she had no children of her own, she drew on her familiarity with her mother and sister to portray the divorced single mother of three in the film.
Union initially turned down the role, as she did not want to get typecast for playing a mother until she was told of other actresses that had played similar roles and still found success in their careers.
Gabrielle Union Flawless | Hair Products
In 2017, she launched Flawless by Gabrielle Union, a line of hair-care products that catered to people with textured hair. In September 2017, Union announced a collaborative partnership with Invicta Watch Group that included a line of watches she designed.
Union relaunched her haircare brand, Flawless, for women with textured hair in 2020. The collection is affordably priced and “empowers consumers to customize a regimen specific to their texture and style preference.
Gabrielle Union On Friends
She appeared on an episode of Friends, “The One with the Cheap Wedding Dress”, as Kristen, a love interest to both Ross & Joey. Other earlier roles included teen movies such as She’s All That and 10 Things I Hate About You.
Gabrielle Union Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Union’s estimated net worth is $40 million.
How Old Is Gabrielle Union
She is 50 years old. Union was born on October 29, 1972, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.