Actorstemple

Gabriella Santinelli

Actress, Teacher, American Accent Coach

I was born in New York City to actor-musician parents, and grew up moving around the United States and Europe with my mother and half-sister.  I began performing at the age of four, and always felt more at home on stage than off.  I studied acting, singing, dancing, instruments, performed in every kind of theatre there was, directed plays, attended top artistic and educational institutions for acting and classical singing…In the end, I reached a very high level of theatrical and operatic performance in London and around the world, but still felt artistically dissatisfied with my hard-won achievements.  It wasn’t until I studied Meisner Technique with Tom at The Actors’ Temple, and was subsequently directed by him in Three Sisters, that I breathed a lifelong sigh of relief; I’d found the missing artistic piece I’d always been searching for, and was given a chance to reach my fullest artistic potential.

Selected credits include: STAGE: Masha Three Sisters (The Actor’s Temple at Chesters), Jerry Springer – The Opera (Olivier Award; National Theatre & West End), Robert Wilson’s & Tom Waits’ The Black Rider (Barbican & World Tour), Carlotta The Phantom Of The Opera (UK Tour).  FILM: Michael Winterbottom’s Genova (with Colin Firth), Paramount’s Losing Isaiah (with Jessica Lange & Halle Berry), Jackie Oudney’s Vagabond Shoes (with Iain Glen).  RADIO: Love My Rifle More Than You (BBC Radio 4).