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Vanessa Branch Birth name: Vanessa Lynn Branch Gender: Female Date of birth: 21 March 1973 Place of birth: London, England, UK Roles: Co-star Character(s): Naomi Wildman

Vanessa Branch (born 21 March 1973; age 47) is the actress who played the adult version of Naomi Wildman in the Star Trek: Voyager seventh season episode "Shattered".

She is perhaps best know for her appearance in all of the Pirates of the Caribbean films with fellow Trek alum Lee Arenberg. She is best known in North America as the Orbit Gum television commercial woman (whose catchphrase is "Fabulous!", as well as initially asking, "Dirty mouth?").

She has dual US/UK citizenship, having been born in London before moving to the United States, where she won Miss Vermont 1994 while in her senior year of college.

Branch also guest starred on an episode of Lost with co-stars Daniel Dae Kim and Terry O'Quinn.

In 2008 she appeared in the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 along with George Takei.