Tati Gabrielle
Tati Gabrielle is an actor, born 1996.
Tati Gabrielle built a career on genre television, and built it fast. Gaia on The 100, Prudence Night on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Marienne Bellamy on You, Nora on The Last of Us, and Willow Park's voice on The Owl House. That is five separate fandoms before she turned thirty.
Casting has settled on a particular use for her: the composed one, the enforcer, the person in the room who is not going to raise her voice. Prudence is a head witch who treats cruelty as etiquette. Jo Braddock in Uncharted is a mercenary who never once looks rushed. The Last of Us gives her a short, high-pressure role and she plays it with the same stillness.
The exception, and the better performance, is Marienne on You, where she gets to be tired and funny and wary in the same scene instead of serving a function in someone else's plot. Since then the work has tilted toward film: Jade in Mortal Kombat II, the young Barbara Jean in The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, an animated Batman feature. The catalogue is still thin, and she is still waiting for a part written for her rather than adapted to fit.
Movies (6)
TV (6)
Where to start with Tati Gabrielle
Begin with You. Marienne is the only role so far that asks her for warmth and wariness at the same time, and it is the one that suggests what she can do outside genre archetypes.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is the fan entry point and the most quotable version of her screen persona, a witch who delivers threats as though bored of them. The 100 is a long-running series that she joins late, so it makes a poor sampler unless you are already watching. The Last of Us gives her one tense, compact role and she does not waste it. Uncharted is the big mainstream credit and a thin part. If there are children in the house, The Owl House is the best show she has been anywhere near, and her Willow is lovely voice work. Mortal Kombat II is the swing at being an action lead.