By Lady Williamson
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Gabrielle Monique Union-Wade (née Union; born October 29, 1972) is an American actress. Her career began in the 1990s, when she made dozens of appearances on television sitcoms, prior to landing supporting roles in 1999 teen films She’s All That and 10 Things I Hate About You. She rose to greater prominence the following year, after she landed her breakthrough role in the teen film Bring It On.
Union is known for her performances in the romantic comedy films The Brothers (2001), Deliver Us from Eva (2003), Daddy’s Little Girls (2007), Think Like a Man (2012) and Think Like a Man Too (2014). She also had starring roles in the CBS medical drama series City of Angels (2000) and in the films Bad Boys II (2003), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003), Neo Ned (2005), Cadillac Records (2008), Top Five (2014), Breaking In (2018), and The Perfect Find (2023). She has also co-starred in the films The Birth of a Nation (2016), Almost Christmas (2016) and Sleepless (2017).
Union starred as the lead characters in BET drama series Being Mary Jane (2013-2019), for which she has received an NAACP Image Award, and in the crime series L.A.’s Finest (2019-2020). Outside of acting, Union has written four books: two memoirs, titled We’re Going to Need More Wine (2017) and You Got Anything Stronger? (2021), and two children’s books, titled Welcome to the Party (2020) and Shady Baby (2021).
She has also been an outspoken advocate for issues involving women’s health, LGBTQ+ equality, and violence against women, and was awarded the President’s Award from the NAACP Image Awards, alongside her husband Dwyane Wade for their humanitarian efforts. Union was included on Time‘s list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020.
Gabrielle grew up a Nebraska Cornhuskers fan and a Turner Gill fan.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Born
- James Boswell (biographer) –
- Daniel Decatur Emmett (songwriter, musician) –
- Fred Lazarus, Jr. (merchandiser) –
- Fanny Brice (singer & comedienne) –
- Melba Moore (singer) –
- Richard Dreyfuss (actor) –
- Kate Jackson (actress) –
- Mike Gartner (hockey player) –
- Joely Fisher (actress) –
- Winona Ryder (actress) –
- Gabrielle Union (actress) –
- Ben Foster (actor) –
- Amanda Beard (Olympic swimmer) –
Died
- Joseph Pulitzer (journalist) –
- Chang Lin-Tien (first Asian-American to head a major U.S. university when he was named chancellor at the University of California at Berkeley) –
Events
- First commencement of first U.S. coeducational college (Oberlin) took place–
- Black Tuesday at the NY Stock Exchange—Great Depression began–
- The first peacetime draft in U.S. history went into effect–
- The first ballpoint pens went on sale at Gimbel’s Department store in N.Y.C. at $12.50 a piece–
- Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize for literature under pressure from Soviet authorities–
- A spectacular gem robbery took place in New York’s American Museum of Natural History. The greatest loss was the Star of India, the largest sapphire in the world–
- John Glenn returned to space at age 77–
- A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan–
- The Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series–
- A man paddled a 1,364-pound pumpkin down the River Ouse in Yorkshire, England–
- The Friends for Life animal shelter in Houston, Texas, posted a story on Facebook about their escape artist cat named Quilty, who repeatedly freed friends from the shelter’s cat room. The talented kitty gained Internet fame and his story was picked up by the news media. He later was adopted.–
Weather
- A deadly tornado struck Berryville, Arkansas–
- A snow hurricane occurred in Maine–
- Typhoon Cimaron battered the northern Philippines with winds up to 143 mph–
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