Gabrielle Scharnitzky. Actress: Shantaram. Gabrielle Scharnitzky, of east-prussian descent, was born in a small Bavarian town in Germany. The third and youngest daughter of Egon G. Scharnitzky, a landscape architect, and Apollonia Bösl, a secretary, Gabrielle always found ways to express herself through acting, dancing, singing or ice-skating. 9 years old, she won her first award - a green stuffed frog - for her first theatre play she had written,...