Career
After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, Carteris's early television career found her typically cast as a teenager in such fare as "ABC Afterschool Specials", "CBS Schoolbreak Special", and the long-running soap opera "Another World". This trend of playing significantly younger would continue when, in 1990, Carteris was cast in her best known role as studious school newspaper editor Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210. At age 29, she was the oldest cast member to portray a 16-year-old.
Carteris left the series in 1995 and became the host of her own television talk show, entitled Gabrielle, which lasted only one season.
However she has seen greater success in other ventures. Since exiting the series that put her on the map, Carteris has worked regularly as an actor and voice over artist, amassing a considerable amount of post-90210 credits in television, film, and video games. She's gone on to become a mainstay on the made-for-television movie circuit, starring in nearly a dozen such films. Her first, "Seduced and Betrayed", a suspense yarn opposite Baywatch's David Charvet, and Erica Kane herself, Susan Lucci, was released in 1995 while she still a contract player on 90210. She has also become a regular presence on network television, guest starring in such television mainstays as "Touched by an Angel", "King of the Hill", "NYPD Blue", "JAG", "Batman", "Criminal Minds", and "The Event". She was a part of the premier cast of VH1's celebrity reality show, "The Surreal Life". She also returned as a special guest star on "Beverly Hills 90210" as Andrea Zuckerman in seasons 6, 8, and 10.
Carteris's major motion picture work includes a very small role in "Jacknife", starring Al Pacino, Charles S. Dutton, and Ed Harris, and a slightly larger role opposite John Lithgow in 1992's "Raising Cain".
Today Carteris continues to work regularly as an actor, but in a bit of life-imitating-art twist, she has also taken up Labor leadership and advocacy. She was elected president of AFTRA LA in 2011. Under the recent SAG (Screen Actors' Guild) and AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) merger, Carteris became the national vice president of SAG-AFTRA, Los Angeles in 2012. She also serves as a vice president of the California Labor Federation.
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