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Vanessa Lynn Branch (born 21 March 1973) is an English American actress and model. She is best known in North America as the Orbit Gum television commercial woman (whose catchphrase is "Fabulous!").
Branch holds dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States. She also speaks fluent French and Mandarin Chinese.[dead link]
After graduating from Mercersburg Academy, a boarding school in south-central Pennsylvania, she graduated from Middlebury College in 1994 and was Miss Vermont also that year. In 1996, she began tutoring two young girls, Blair and Ana Van Pelt, in French, and later moved in with the Van Pelt family in Newport Beach, California. She has stayed in southern California since then and currently resides there.
She appeared in the Lost episode "Fire + Water" as the character Karen. She also made an appearance on Gilmore Girls. She can also be seen in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, playing Giselle, a Tortugan wench jilted by Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow. She had a guest appearance as Nadia Kerensky in the pilot of the short-lived TV series Andy Barker P.I.. She also appeared in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Shattered" as an adult Naomi Wildman.
It's almost as if I can't say anything new. Well, I know that can't be true, because of people like you. The one's who started this, and left it up to us. The ones who are gone, but never forgot. Can't forget the things you said. Forever implanted in my head. Don't have to fill any footsteps, or make marks in the sand. I don't have to follow anything, or preach about marks on my hand. The first time I heard your words, I felt so free. It's like the words you were writing, you were writing only for me. Can't forget the things you said. Forever implanted in my head.