Vanessa Branch

Vanessa Branch
Vanessa Branch attending Maxim Magazine's 10th Annual Hot 100 Celebration in Santa Monica, CA on May 13, 2009
Born	Vanessa Lynn Branch (1973-03-21) March 21, 1973 (age 43) London, England, United Kingdom
Alma mater	Middlebury College
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1999–present
Known for	Miss Vermont in 1994

Vanessa Lynn Branch (born March 21, 1973) is an English-born American actress and model. She is best known in the United States 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 some French and Mandarin Chinese.

After graduating from Mercersburg Academy, a boarding school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, she graduated from Middlebury College in 1994. She won the crown as Miss Vermont 1994 and competed in the Miss America 1995 pageant. 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.

Branch 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 film series, playing Giselle, a Tortugan wench jilted by Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow. She had a guest appearance as Nadia Kerensky in the pilot episode of the short-lived NBC comedy Andy Barker, P.I.. She also appeared in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Shattered" as an adult Naomi Wildman.