Gabrielle Chan
Bio
Gabrielle was born in Vietnam and migrated to Australia in 1982. She can speak fluent Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
Gabrielle attributes her acting education to Chinese Opera performances, a form of traditional Chinese drama and musical theatre. In the past 20 years, she has been trained by the highly respected Beijing Opera teacher Duan Qiu Xia and has performed in theatres in across Australia, in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Auckland New Zealand. Theatre productions include most recently Miss Peony (Belvoir Theatre), The One (Ensemble Theatre), Half Time (Hayes Theatre), as well as I’m With Her (Darlinghurst Theatre Co), Golden Shield (MTC), Australian Graffitti and Chimerica (STC), The Quiet Brother (Belvoir) and Silence (Hungry Ghost/La Mama).
Gabrielle has appeared in numerous feature film productions including most recently the indi feature film Accidental Get Away Driver, premiering at Sundance Film Festival and winning the Director Sing J Lee the Best Director award for Sundance 2023. Other productions include Australian feature films Five Blind Dates, Here Out West, Jasper Jones and The Home Song Stories ; as well as short films The Egg , The Last Chip and Mother Egg.
She has also featured in Australian television productions Strife, Fisk, Expats, C*A*U*G*H*T, Wellmania, The Twelve, Doctor Doctor, The Secrets She Keeps, The Commons, Hungry Ghosts, Rake, Here Come the Habibs, City Homicide, Maximum Choppage and Kick. Gabrielle also recently shot Expats for Amazon Studios due for release in the coming months.
In 2016, Gabrielle won the Outstanding Performance Award at the 25th Sydney Film School Festival for her role in ‘Kijo’ and in 2021 Gabrielle was a recipient of the MEAA Screen Awards for Best TV Drama Ensemble Cast for Hungry Ghosts.
Short film Egg was also the Winner of Best Short Film 2019/2020 at ACCTA, Melbourne Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival. Mother Egg, was the 2018 Recipient for Best Dramatic Original at WorldFest Houston, Best Made in Sydney Short Film at Sydney Indie Film Festival, and The Last Chip was the 2008 Recipient Winner at Almería International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, St. Kilda Film Festival.
Alongside Daphne Low Kelly, Gabrielle founded Australasian Art and Stageworks (AASI), an organisation that aims to educate and entertain the Australian community through the dramatic arts. Since 2012, AASI has staged numerous productions including theatre shows (The Quiet Brother at Belvoir, Life’s A Stage at Zenith), Chinese Opera make-up tutorials, and film festivals for City of Sydney, Willoughby Council and Young Shire Council.