Gabrielle Union
Despite plans to attend law school after undergraduate work at University of Nebraska and UCLA, Gabrielle Union was discovered at and signed to the modeling agency she was interning at during her senior year. The high school soccer, basketball and track star started with modeling, commercials and TV appearances ("Moesha," "Saved By The Bell" and "Sister, Sister) and spent the beginning of her career playing teens as a real-life twentysomething ("7th Heaven," "10 Things I Hate About You," "She's All That" and "Bring It On"). She has consistently worked ever since in blockbusters ("Bad Boys II"), short-lived TV shows ("Life,"