Gabrielle Solis
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| Gabrielle Solis | |
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 Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis |
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| First appearance | Pilot (episode 1.01) |
| Information | |
| Aliases | Gabrielle Marquez (maiden name) |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | 31 |
| Occupation | Housewife former model make-up assistant Beauty Pagent Coach |
| Family | Lucia Marquez (mother) Alejandro (stepfather) |
| Relationships | Carlos Solis (ex-husband) John Rowland (ex-boyfriend) Bill Pearce (ex-boyfriend) |
| Relatives | Grandmother Lily Aunt Maria Juanita Solis (former mother-in-law; deceased) Diego Solis (former father-in-law; deceased) |
| Portrayed by | Eva Longoria |
| Created by | Marc Cherry |
Gabrielle "Gabby" Solis (née Marquez) is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by Eva Longoria.
[edit] History
| “ | I should have seen how unhappy she was. But I didn't. I only saw her clothes from Paris, and her platinum jewelry, and her brand new diamond watch. Had I looked closer, I'd have seen that Gabrielle was a drowning woman, desperately in need of a life raft. Luckily for her, she found one. | ” |
Gabrielle is a retired model who married Carlos Solis for money, but found satisfaction with John Rowland, her teenage gardener. She questions her relationship with Carlos, commenting once that she loved him and all her teenage fantasies had been fulfilled, yet she still wasn't happy. Gabrielle absolutely despises Carlos' mother, Juanita.
The families of Gabrielle and Carlos Solis are from the Mexican city of Guadalajara.
Towards the end of Season One, Gabrielle learned that she was pregnant, as a result of her husband replacing her birth control pills with sugar pills (it is implied that John is the biological father, as Mary Alice speaks of the baby to come while Gabrielle and John are having sex; however, this is academic as the child did not survive). She almost left Carlos after finding out the truth about her birth control pills, but eventually decided to blackmail him into taking complete care of the baby in return for her testimony.
It was recently discovered that Gabrielle is Roman Catholic, and refuses to divorce Carlos because of her faith. She lost the baby after being attacked when her house was broken into by Caleb Applewhite the son of new neighbor Betty whom had been keeping him chained in her basement for a murder. Believing Gabrielle to be in pain from her loss, Carlos sent a former inmate, Hector Ramos, to help her deal with it. Through Hector, Gabrielle began to realize that she was more deeply affected by the loss of the baby than she would at first admit.
Her most recent rival is Sister Mary Bernard, a pretty Catholic nun who has apparently caused Carlos to turn over a new leaf, and who Gabrielle fears will eventually persuade Carlos to end the marriage. When she heard that Sister Mary's group was short of the money it needed to send Sister Mary to Botswana as part of a relief effort, Gabrielle personally donated the money, just to ensure that Sister Mary would be out of the way (at least for a while), and lied to the doctors on the medical forms for Carlos' physical evaluation so that he would be forced to stay home with her. Gabrielle also invoked the jealousy of Lynette when she planted a supposedly "friendly" kiss on Tom at a party; Lynette got her revenge by making out with Carlos right in front of Gabrielle.
Gabrielle and Carlos want to have a baby, but cannot since she cannot become pregnant again because of her miscarriage. They try adoption, and are to adopt pole-dancer Libby Collins' daughter (who Gabrielle names "Lily"). Libby changes her mind three times, ultimately taking Lily back; this left Gabrielle heartbroken.
The Solises finally decide to make their new maid, Xiao-Mei, the surrogate mother of their baby. The in-vitro fertilization works and Xiao-Mei gets pregnant. In the second season finale, Gabrielle finds out that Carlos is cheating on her with Xiao-Mei. Following this, she surprisingly does not blow up at Carlos; instead, she orders that Xiao-Mei help her throw Carlos's belongings out of the house.
In the third season opener, Gabrielle and Carlos are said to be getting a divorce. At Bree's wedding party, Xiao-Mei's water breaks. Xiao-Mei's baby is born black and the doctor reveals that the wrong baby was put in Xiao-Mei, and therefore Gabrielle and Carlos will not have a child. Gabrielle also runs into John Rowland and has sex with him, but only this time John was cheating on his companion. John tells Gabrielle that he can't do this to his fiancée and leaves.
When Gabrielle learns that a woman is trying to kill her husband for cheating on her and holding several people at a supermarket hostage, she tells Carlos that she can relate to that woman, and she tells him that they should end their bitterness towards each other before it gets worse. Carlos agrees. Carlos and Gabrielle get divorced, but are at peace with each other.
After a visit from a member of the Lakeview Adventure Scouts, she decides to try to return to modeling. She meets up with her former agent and all seems to be well...until she gets to the shoot. She meets the new star, Tonya, and tries to bond by giving advice to her to no avail. She then finds out that she is to play the role of a mother in "typical" mother dress. She doesn't buy it and tries to make it work for her, even going so far as to dress up like Britney Spears and call herself "hot mom" or Tonya's "big sister". The photographer gets her agent on the phone, and she comes by the shoot and reads her the riot act, basically telling her that she can't just come back from 10 years of "playing house in the suburbs" and carry on like nothing had happened, and drops the bomb on her further by telling her that she had to pull special favors just to get her into the shoot she's in. She reluctantly finishes the shoot, then comes home, deciding to leave modeling for good. Gabrielle then starts mentoring young girls in pageantry and is very attracted to one of the girls' single father, Bill. They begin a short-lived romance, which ends when Gabrielle gets a stalker. She thinks that the stalker is Carlos which in turn makes her end the relationship because she feels she is not over her divorce. The stalker actually turns out to be Zach Young, who with his vassive amounts of money, has been buying her expensive gifts. She ends up going on two dates with Zach, the first to meet her stalker, and the second to gain bail money to get Mike out of jail. After these dates are over, she makes it clear to Zach that she wants nothing more than friendship, but it doesn't seem that he thinks of it that way from his point of view.
Gabrielle met mayor candidate Victor Lang and Victor was immedietly attracted to Gabrielle. After a series of events, Victor managed to get Gabrielle to go to dinner with him. Although she said that there will never be anything between them, Victor promised that he will marry her.
[edit] Trivia
- Marc Cherry originally wanted Catherine Zeta-Jones to play Gabrielle.
- Gabrielle's affair with John caused an amount of criticism, prompting Marc Cherry to turn him 18 early in the first season.
- Gabrielle's favourite flowers are white orchids. To cheer her up, send her sunflowers. When she's sick, blue irises.
- When Gabrielle is close to climaxing, she starts to shout out dollar amounts.
| Desperate Housewives | ||
| Episode list | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Official site | ||
| Production | Marc Cherry | Characters | Actors | Awards | Broadcasting | DVD releases | Music | The Game | |
| Main characters |
Susan Mayer | Lynette Scavo | Bree Hodge | Gabrielle Solis | Edie Britt | Mary Alice Young Carlos Solis | Tom Scavo | Julie Mayer | Orson Hodge | Mike Delfino Andrew Van De Kamp | Danielle Van De Kamp | Preston and Porter Scavo | Parker Scavo | Ian Hainsworth |
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| Former main characters |
Betty Applewhite | Rex Van De Kamp | Paul Young | John Rowland | Zach Young | Karl Mayer |
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| Minor characters |
Carolyn Bigsby | Sophie Flickman | Maisy Gibbons | Ida Greenberg | Alma Hodge | Gloria Hodge |
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| Locations | Wisteria Lane | Eagle State | |
