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- Birth nameGabriella Zanna Vanessa Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Gabriella Wilde was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. She is descended from the aristocratic Gough-Calthorpe family. Her mother, Vanessa Mary Teresa (Hubbard), is the former wife of socialite Sir Dai Llewellyn, 4th Baronet. Her father, businessman John Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is a former chairman of the Watermark Group, and the grandson of baronet Fitzroy Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. Her ancestry includes English, as well as some Scottish and Irish.
Vanessa is a former model who sat for David Bailey and John Swannell. Wilde attended Heathfield St Mary's School, Ascot, and St Swithun's School, Winchester, before leaving to pursue a course in art while continuing with her modeling career. She studied fine art at the City and Guilds of London Art School but dropped out to pursue acting.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseAlan Pownall(September 13, 2014 - present) (3 children)
- ChildrenSasha Blue PownallShiloh Silva PownallSkye Pownall
- ParentsVanessa Mary Teresa HubbardJohn Austen Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe
- RelativesJacobi Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe(Half Sibling)Octavia Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe(Sibling)Olivia Llewellyn(Half Sibling)Arabella Llewellyn(Half Sibling)Georgiana Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe(Half Sibling)Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe(Half Sibling)
- Wilde began her career as a model. Spotted at age 14 by Naomi Campbell, she joined her agency Premier Model Management and appeared in campaigns for companies including L.K.Bennett, Lacoste, Abercrombie & Fitch, Burberry and Topshop and posed for InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Nylon.
- Paternal granddaughter of the 2nd Baronet Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe and a descendant of Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, in turn twice a great-great-great-grandson of Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, and of Joan the Mad, sister of Catherine of Aragon.
- Wilde has a younger sister, Octavia, as well as five half-siblings: Olivia and Arabella, from her mother's first marriage, and Georgiana, Isabella, and Jacobi, from her father's first marriage, to Lady Mary-Gaye Curzon. She is also "unofficial stepsisters" with Pandora Cooper-Key and Cressida Bonas, Lady Mary-Gaye's other daughters. Isabella and Olivia are also actresses.
- She studied fine art at the City and Guilds of London Art School but dropped out to pursue acting.
- Mother, with husband Alan Pownall, of sons Sasha Blue Pownall (b. February 3, 2014), Shiloh Silva Pownall (b. 2016) and Skye Pownall (b. October 2019).
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