Vanessa Branch is an American actress and model. She is best known in the United States as the Orbit Gum girl for its 2002 to 2010 television marketing campaign, as well as Giselle in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, specifically Gore Verbinski's trilogy and James Ward Byrkit's short film '.
Branch speaks French and Mandarin Chinese.
After graduating from Mercersburg Academy, a boarding school located in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, she earned a degree from Middlebury College in 1994, completing a double major in French and theatre. That same year, she was crowned Miss Vermont 1994 and went on to compete in Miss America 1995. Following her graduation, Branch pursued an international modeling career, appearing in publications such as Elle and Harper's Bazaar. She later relocated to Los Angeles to pursue acting. In 2002, she began appearing in the long-running Orbit chewing gum advertising campaign, portraying its distinctive British spokesperson for eight years and featuring in 45 commercials. Branch also gained recognition for her role as Giselle in the first three installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. In addition, she has starred in leading roles in several Chinese-language films performed in Mandarin.