Vanessa Lynn Branch is an English American actress and model. She is best known in North America as the Orbit Gum television commercial woman . Branch holds dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States. She also speaks fluent French and Mandarin Chinese. 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.
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| Birthdate: | March 21, 1973 |
| Birthplace: | London |
| Age: | 39 |
| Education: | Middlebury College, Mercersburg Academy |
| Also known as: | Vanessa Lynn Branch |