of Roxie Bardo Entertainment, Interview:
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and why you decided to start your own
Urban Teen: you were born
entertainment company? in Anaheim California
Urban Teen: Gabriella, you started where you
and relocated to Springfield Massachusetts modeling
Well, I met my were you when you moved to years
grew up, and walked your
in 2005 how old acting first runway at 8
manager and do you rememberand we started to
Springfield about a year ago what it was
old, how did you get started and end uplike or
talking about different ways I can beak into
adjust?
participating in the fashion show?
theWoods: I was really young, I of the waysthere
D. music business and one was like 3, so was
to open upofI an adjustment,company, which is
publishing was 5 years old I
wasn’t much
Gabriella: a Well, when I you kinda just do what
you are with that age, but I have a very vivid
what Roxie pageants and was kinda thatprotect
started told at Bardo Entetainment is, to memory I
can music, back
my rememberbut, ittoI my room and my backyard and
keep all glamour type
pageant girlwhere wasn’t the my royalties and
we didn’t live that far from Knottsmy music.and
Berry Farm
would have full control of natural, I started with
pageant, it was more of the
Disneyland.
that and realized that I really loved being in front
of an audience and as a teenager you relocated to
Urban Teen: And camera.
Atlanta,
Urbanwhere youFour years ago you sparked an
Teen: attended the renowned Tri-Cities
High School for Visual and Performing Arts, talk about
interest and love for acting. What sparked study
the move to Atlanta and what were your areas of your
interest in acting and why did you decide to
at Tri-Cities?
pursue it?
D. Woods: Well I moved after the Olympics and
Gabriella: Well, actingmoving down here, so we
that’s when everybody was is very different than
Association, The Ronald McDonald
modeling and I the entertainment industry was and I
heard about how just watched people on tv
said I want to do that. Being someone else is
booming.
reallyyouth andto me.
with intriguing particularly girls. Like the
annual Teen: Our Sisters might not know, that
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Urban Teen: high school you performed across the
and you Music 4 Hope Foundation.
while the were in Gabriella, you are often
compared to Dakota Fanning,and South Africa and
US and overseas including West how does it make
you feel to be also includesto an actress like York
your education compared Alvin Ailey and New
University,
Dakota? where you had the chance to study abroad in
Havana, Cuba, what do you feel you learned from your
experiences overseas and abroad that you brought to
Gabriella: It’s really an honor actually because
your career as a performer?
Dakota is probably one of the best actresses that
I know that started when she was just a
D. Woods: Definitely at the time my first experience
outside the United States was South Africa which was a
huge jump, because I didn’t go to the Bahamas or a
cruise with my parents, but South Africa!
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