The Biography

Fabianne Therese Gstottenmayr is a Sri Lankan American actress and director known for starring in several successful independent films including Netflix's Teenage Cocktail (2016), John Dies at the End (2012), Anchor Bay's The Aggression Scale (2012), A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013), and the AMC web series The Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks (2011). Therese's family often moved when she was growing up, including to Austria, Sri Lanka, Abu Dhabi, and Palm Springs. She originally focused on becoming a track runner before getting involved in acting. She is a great-great-granddaughter of Ceylonese newspaper editor and democratic activist Armand de Souza.