Vanessa Branch
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| Date of birth | March 21, 1973 |
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| Place of birth | London |
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Vanessa Lynn Branch (born 21 March 1973) is a British-American actress, model, and Page Three girl. She is best known in North America as the Orbit Gum television commercial woman (whose catchphrase is "Fabulous!").
Branch holds dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States. She also speaks fluent French and Mandarin Chinese.[citation needed]
After graduating from Mercersburg Academy, a boarding school in south-central Pennsylvania, she graduated from Middlebury College in 1994 and was Miss Vermont also that year. In 1996 she began tutoring two young girls, Blair and Ana Van Pelt, in French, and later moved in with the Van Pelt family in Newport Beach, California. She has stayed in southern California since then and currently resides there.
She appeared in the Lost episode "Fire + Water" as the character Karen. She can also be seen in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, playing Giselle, a Tortugan wench jilted by Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow. She had a guest appearance as Nadia Kerensky in the pilot of the short-lived TV series Andy Barker P.I. She also appeared in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Shattered" as an adult Naomi Wildman.
In 2002, Vanessa appeared on the American soap Port Charles as Mary Margaret 'Paige' Barrington Smith and Rebecca 'Becca' Barrington.
In June 2006, Vanessa worked on an ad for Orbit Gum that introduced two new flavors, lemon-lime and crystal mint. This ad was done in conjunction with Snoop Dogg.
In July 2006, Maxim featured her in their "Girls of Maxim" gallery[1].
She plays the role of Zhana Agonskaya in the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.
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- Vanessa Branch at the Internet Movie Database
- Vanessa Branch at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
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