A native New Yorker, Gameela took the scenic route to acting. Starting
out in grade school doing school plays whenever possible and hamming it
up for her family whenever they could stand it, she soon found her way
to dance and got accepted into the prestigious Dance Theater of Harlem.
When a physical injury sidelined a dance career, Gameela went the
business route, working in advertising while getting her BA in both
Psychology and Marketing at the CUNY Baccalaureate Program.
She is forever grateful to her ad agency for laying off her division -
for that is when she decided to finish up school full-time. While
taking a class at Hunter College Gameela saw a flyer for auditions for
"Twelfth Night". Realizing that the "gnawing" feeling she always felt
was her long-ignored childhood dream of being an actor, she decided to
try out, though she had no formal training. She was cast as Maria and
went on to do three other Shakespearean productions. Gameela then went
back to school and has studied with Terry Schreiber and Wynn Handman to
name a few. She has gone on to do theater, television, film and
commercials and is proud to call herself a working actor.