After attending Howard University for a major in communications and working some smaller dead-end jobs, Dennis and her best friend worked for a summer at Six Flags. She had the wherewithal to put me in dance class when I was four, and then I attended in fourth grade.” Even though she endeavored to be a ballet dancer, Dennis found her passion in a surprising place. “She’d tell me that I was always trying to entertain people and make people laugh. “I’ve always been a ham.” Dennis shares her mother’s words when asked about her love of entertaining. Whether it was as a teenager watching her host on BET’s Teen Summit or her role as Treyvonetta in Bring It On: Fight to the Finish, Dennis is not just invited to the cookout, she’s the one who reserved the park and brought decorations.īGN got to speak with Gabrielle about her career, some of her most memorable roles (you know we talked about Janay from The Game), and what’s next for her. Whether you realized it or not, she was probably around during several formative years of your childhood. Is she Loretta Divine, or is she Aunt Tressie with her famous sweet-potato pie? Is he Denzel Washington or Uncle Otis who runs the car shop down on Ames? Our stars are our family, and Gabrielle Dennis is no exception. There’s an old anecdote that details how Black celebrities always resemble some distant relative.
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