Gabrielle Gutierrez

Gabrielle Alexa Gutierrez (born September 29, 2005) is a Filipina-American stage actress prominently known as the first Filipina to play the lead role of Matilda in a major musical theatre adaptation of the novel of the same name.

[1] Gutierrez was a piano prodigy, winning a contest that gave her the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall when she was five years old.

She began her formal music career in 2014 when she was cast as Ngana in Paper Mill Playhouse production of Rodgers-Hammerstein classic South Pacific.

While working on said production, she was cast as the lead for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Matilda The Musical.

Recently Gutierrez starred in a production of Heathers: Teen Edition, where she played lead Veronica Sawyer.