Gabrielle Carteris Elected SAG-AFTRA President

Actor Gabrielle Carteris, who has been serving as SAG-AFTRA’s acting president since the death last month of Ken Howard, was elected president by the union’s board to fill out the remainder of Howard’s term, SAG-AFTRA announced Saturday. She will serve until August 2017. A veteran of Beverly Hills, 90210, Carteris was also the union’s executive vp, an office she now vacates. The board elected Rebecca Damon to fill that slot. For the first time, SAG-AFTRA’s top three officers are all female, the union noted. Read More…