Elisa Gabrielli
Also Known As: Elisa Pensler Gabrielli
Biography: Actress and Improvisor Elisa Gabrielli began her professional career with the highly acclaimed Mirror Repertory Company in New York, working closely and often with Inner-City Improv and New Dramatists. Theatrical credits include Emily in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", Miss Wellington in "You Can't Take It With You", Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew", Meg in "Merrily We Roll Along" and Ado Annie in "Oklahoma!". Film and television credits include The Brady Bunch Movie, Seven Girlfriends and ER , among others. She is attached to act in the upcoming film "Ten Shots of Tequila", currently in development. Working extensively in Voice-Over, Narration and Animation, Elisa is the voice of the cranky Old Lady "Nana" in DreamWorks's "Madagascar" and "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa", as well as having numerous voices in "Kung Fu Panda", "Shrek", "Mulan", "Open Season 2" a " A Shark's Tale", among many others. Her narration includes projects for the United Nations, the LA History Museum , The Getty Villa and various documentaries. Elisa lives happily in Los Angeles with her husband, fellow actor and musician Floyd VanBuskirk.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Overview: Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African continent. There the New Yorkers encounter members of their own species for the first time. Africa proves to be a wild place, but Alex and company wonder if it is better than their Central Park home.
Genres: Family Adventure Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-30
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The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper
Overview: During the holiday season, when the animals of the Central Park Zoo are preparing for Christmas, Private, the youngest of the penguins notices that the Polar Bear is all alone. Assured that nobody should have to spend Christmas alone, Private goes into the city for some last-minute Christmas shopping. Along the way, he gets stuffed into a stocking
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Overview: As if the Penguin wasn't enough to contend with, a new vigilante has surfaced in Gotham City, and her strong-arm tactics give Batman cause for concern.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Adventure Action Science Fiction Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-21
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Kepler X-47
Overview: A woman struggles to adjust to her new life in a human zoo exhibit on an alien planet.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-29
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Alien Space Avenger
Overview: In 1939 a spaceship carrying four alien escaped prisoners crash-lands on Earth and the aliens take over the bodies of four locals. Fifty years later the aliens find out that an artist has written a comic book called "Space Avenger," which they believe is about them. They go to New York to try to kill the artist.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-01
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Reform School Girl
Overview: Donna is sent to a reform school to take the fall for bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and learns about herself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Lil' Pimp
Overview: A comedy about a nine-year-old pimp, Lil' Pimp, who hustles his ho's around the neighborhood. Along with his Mom, Pop, pimpin' pals Fruitjuice and Nagchampa, as well as superfine ho's, Yam Basket and Honeysak, and his loveable pet gerbil Weathers, who has Tourette's syndrome, Lil' Pimp generates laughs, magic and brutal honesty.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-11
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Madagascar
Overview: Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Park Zoo and wash ashore on the island of Madagascar.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-25
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The House of Magic
Overview: Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos. Not everyone welcomes the new addition to the troupe as Jack Rabbit and Maggie Mouse plot to evict Thunder. The situation gets worse when the magician lands in hospital and his scheming nephew sees his chance to cash in by selling the mansion. Our young hero is determined to earn his place and so he enlists the help of some wacky magician's assistants to protect his magical new home.
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-24
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A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise
Overview: Sammy and Ray, leatherback turtles and friends forever, are enjoying an atoll's water and sand, shepherding new hatchlings Ricky and Ella out to sea. Suddenly, a poacher swoops in and ships them off to be part of a spectacular aquarium show for tourists in Dubai. The kingpin of the place, Big D the seahorse, enlists them in his plans for a great escape. But with their new friends Jimbo the bug-eyed blob fish and Lulu the snippy lobster, Annabel the sweet Octopus, and a whole family of penguins, Sammy and Ray hatch breakout plans of their own. That is when little Ricky and Ella arrive, determined to break in to rescue them. After a series of thrilling adventures and narrow escapes, our heroes head south to meet up with Shelly, Sammy's first and only love.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-01
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Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans
Overview: The Guardians of Arcadia reunite to battle the nefarious Arcane Order, who've reawakened the primordial Titans.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-21
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Seven Girlfriends
Overview: Jesse is charming, romantic, and he knows how to pop the question; he just can't face marriage. So, when he and Hannah split up during the same week that a former fiancée dies, he decides to figure things out. He visits each woman about whom he's been serious to ask what went wrong. His teen flame, an independent woman who sometimes sleeps with him, and a group of lesbians give him advice, as does Anabeth, dead but lively in his dreams. One ex remains furious, but with the help of her inventive colleague, the level-headed insomniac Laura, Jesse even gets to talk to her. It's on to Anabeth's funeral, where he'll see Hannah, and maybe grasp what has been eluding him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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The Brady Bunch Movie
Overview: The original '70s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-16
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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Overview: Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-18
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The Invincible Iron Man
Overview: When a cocky industrialist's efforts to raise an ancient Chinese temple leads him to be seriously wounded and captured by enemy forces, he must use his ideas for a revolutionary power armor in order to fight back as a superhero.
Genres: Adventure Animation Action Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-23
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Overview: After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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The Book of Life
Overview: The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Shock and Awe
Overview: A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-09
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Open Season
Overview: Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-27
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Mulan
Overview: To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-18
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You've Got This
Overview: An ad creative and a successful exec have a great marriage — until he wants to be a dad just as her star is rising. Then he brings someone new home.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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The Call
Overview: Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-14
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Luca
Overview: Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.
Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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Luck of the Draw
Overview: Jack Sweeny is a young man just trying to get a job. Turned down at another bank due to his criminal record he meets a girl, Rebecca, but also witnesses a 3 way shootout between 2 groups of criminals and the cops over a suitcase containing perfect plates for counterfeiting bank notes. Jack grabs the plates and attempts to sell them via his friend Zippo. However with at least three different groups ready to kill him for the plates, Jack finds it's just one double cross after another.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-06
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