A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born into a family of creative characters, from poets and writers to painters and photographers (not to mention a cast of clowns), Giselle's acting career came naturally, and literally began in her crib in New York City where she performed for her brothers and sister instead of falling to sleep. It was a daily routine and a very fond memory of her family who knew then that she was meant to be in the lights. Her first acting role was as a lady bug in James and the Giant Peach. She has been living and loving acting ever since. Being both an American and French citizen, Giselle had a bilingual education and has lived a bicultural life both in New York City and Paris, France. Upon completion of her studies and Certification at Lee Strasberg in New York, she landed the lead role in Perfect Match, an independent feature film, and has since completed several other independent features where she was cast in leading roles. Giselle currently resides in New York City as a working actor.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.