At the age of eight, her family moved to Pleasanton, California, where she grew up and attended Foothill High School. Invited by the agency’s owner, Judith Fontaine, Union started working as a model to pay off college loans. You’re in that room with every amazingly talented actress of every hue, and it’s a dogfight, it’s hard”. On May 5, 2001 Gabrielle married Chris Howard.
