Gabrielle Miller (born July 1986) is an Australian actress, performance artist, musician, tap dancer, mime and puppeteer. She is well known for her appearances in advertisements for the

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-based hotel website

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and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

Early years

Born in the

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coastal city of Coffs Harbour, Miller spent her childhood travelling in a caravan with her two brothers, accompanying her parents whose job as screeners for

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took them to remote communities around Australia. The family ultimately settled in Cairns where she finished school and lived until age 17.

Performing career

Miller became a performer when she was about 20 and described, in an interview, that her "proudest self-devised work includes ''WunderWagon'', a visual anthology starring objects that I created in Papua New Guinea; AC/DC meets Rocky Horror cabaret, ''If You Want Blood''; the dementia dissecting comedic tragedy, ''Baba''; my swing-jazz band Zap, an absurd mixture of sounds and performance". She also mentioned that "I did a terrible audition" for her favorite TV series, ''

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''. At the end of 2012 she moved to

and, while living in

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, frequently travels around the world with her band Zap, which she describes as "a crazy mixture of swing, jazz music, performance and weird percussion" consisting of "a washboard, megaphone, ukulele, rubber chicken, some tap shoes, a trumpet, two kangaroos and some tzatziki", including her role as "sequined showgirl meets sideshow superstar with a bottomless bag of tricks – whether it be dancing, juggling or throwing confetti". While in Australia, Miller co-starred in writer-director Laura Smith's 2012 short film ''The Outback Motel'' and, in 2015, played one of two female characters in writer-director Berton Pierce's Irish-German science fiction road film ''Adventurados''. In 2016, she worked on two episodes of the German comedy series ''Big Heads'' which uses, for satirical effect, oversized replicas of celebrities' and politicians' heads. She has also appeared in music videos ''Jonathan Jeremiah – Lazin' In The Sunshine'' and ''Kooii – Circle in the Sun'' (both 2012), ''Denk mal an Berlin e.V. – Unser Erbe ist ein Teil unserer Zukunft'', ''VonLewald – Aerobic Rider'' and ''Faun – Walpurgis Nacht'' (all three in 2014) ''The Lips – I Got a Hole in Me'' (2015) as well as ''The Lips – Trouble in Paradise'' (2016). She co-starred in avant-garde director and choreographer

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's production of '' Fassbinder,

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and the

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'' which opened in Berlin on 28 June 2017.

Trivago commercials

Miller recounts that she received the invitation to audition for Trivago while touring in

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. She was camped on a

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, on the island of

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, where she filmed a "rough version of the script". She has estimated that the number of her Trivago commercials is "close to 20", but that "not all have been released". They were produced in Berlin and

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in a series of four- to five-day shoots. Newspaper stories have portrayed her as a replacement for the long-established "Trivago Guy", Tim Williams, who has been the commercial face of the travel site since 2013.Schaal, Dennis. "Did the Trivago Guy Just Lose His TV Gig?" (''Skift'', April 19, 2017)
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Filmography

References

External links

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Gabrielle Miller websiteGabrielle Miller at Crew United, the network of the German-speaking Television and Film Industry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Gabrielle 1986 births Actresses from New South Wales Australian film actresses Australian television actresses Australian expatriates in Germany Australian emigrants to Germany Australian mimes Australian musicians Australian performance artists Australian puppeteers Female puppeteers People from Coffs Harbour Living people Tap dancers Date of birth missing (living people)