Gabrielle Alexa Gutierrez (born September 29, 2005) is a

Filipina-American Filipino Americans ( fil, Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipinos and other Asian ethnicities in North America were first documented in the 16th century as slaves and prisoners on ships sailing to and from New ...

stage actress prominently known as the first Filipina to play the lead role of

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in a major musical theatre adaptation of the novel of the same name.

Career

Gutierrez was a piano prodigy, winning a contest that gave her the opportunity to perform at

Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhatta ...

when she was five years old. She began her formal music career in 2014 when she was cast as Ngana in

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production of Rodgers-Hammerstein classic South Pacific. In late 2014, she was cast as Annie Who for the national your of ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas''. While working on said production, she was cast as the lead for the Royal Shakespeare Company's ''Matilda The Musical''. She performed with the production from May 2015 through January 2017.

Personal life

Gutierrez traces her roots to

Bukidnon Bukidnon(), officially the Province of Bukidnon ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Bukidnon; fil, Lalawigan ng Bukidnon; hil, Kapuroan sang Bukidnon; Binukid and Higaonon: ''Probinsya ta Bukidnon''), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the ...

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

. As of 2015 she resides in Springfield, New Jersey with her older sister and their parents.

Filmography

Theatre

Television

References

External links

Gabby Gutierrez' Broadway credits page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gutierrez, Gabrielle Alexa 2005 births Living people 21st-century Filipino actresses Filipino stage actresses American child actresses American actresses of Filipino descent People from Bukidnon Actresses from New York City 21st-century Filipino singers 21st-century Filipino women singers 21st-century American actresses 21st-century American women singers