‘The Big Door Prize’ And ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Star Gabrielle Dennis Talks About Black Identity And Finding Yourself
deadline.comGabrielle Dennis cannot stop laughing. In HBO’s Emmy-winning sketch comedy series A Black Lady Sketch Show, Dennis plays more than a dozen characters to represent the Black female experience through absurdist humor.
In Apple TV+ sci-fi dramedy The Big Door Prize, she stars as Cass — the wife of Chris O’Dowd’s Dusty and mom to their daughter (Djouliet Amara) — a homemaker looking for a sense of purpose in unique ways outside of her small-town life.
Here, Dennis talks about how she got her start, the significance of Black identity and finding yourself. DEADLINE: You used to be a camera operator before switching to acting.
Tell me about that time of your life and its influence on your career. GABRIELLE DENNIS: Being a camera operator [after college] at a local news station, was very much me being one of a kind, while I was there.
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