Gabby Soleil

Gabby Soleil had a lucky break when she was noticed by a talent manager on a street in Beverly Hills California In no time she was appearing in television commercials starting with a spot for the insurance company Met Life The young actress received her Screen Actors Guild card at only four years old At six in 2001 she acted in her first role in the pilot of the shortlived sitcom Danny about a separated father raising two teenagers She quickly followed up that appearance the same year with a recurring part in the final season of another sitcom The Hughleys a vehicle for comedian DL Hughley She played Adriana daughter of Milsap the best friend of the title characters through three episodes of the program Her longest running onscreen character came in 2002 when she landed the role of the young version of Essence Atkinss character Deirdre Chantal Dee Dee Thorne Esq on Half Half a sitcom about two halfsisters estranged in their youth who meet again as adults She went on to play Young Dee Dee in eight episodes until 2006 In 2005 she began voice acting when she took on the role of Jazmine Dubois a girl who lives across the street from the main characters in the successful animated social satire The Boondocks based on the comic strip by Aaron McGruder