Gabrielle Union is in movies.
Gabrielle Union . Her breakthrough role was in the 2000 teen comedy film Bring It On , after which she was female lead in the short-lived CBS medical drama series City of Angels later that year . The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 American period drama film based on the story of Nat Turner , the enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County , Virginia , in 1831 .