Her grandfather, Arthur Rose, wrote for the musical stage in England, and her father, Ian Rose, was a child actor there. Eventually Gabrielle returned to England herself to study acting.
She has guest starred in the second episode of the first season of two different TV shows; "Deep Throat" in The X-Files (1993) and "Metamorphosis" in Smallville (2001).
In 2000, she added her voice to a Canadian Heritage Moment commercial
for the Terrace massacre.