Fabianne Therese

Acting

Fabianne Therese

Born 1988-08-20 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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.

Acting credits

Dolly poster
5.7

Young Macy is abducted by a deranged, monstrous figure who wants to raise her as its child.

Dolly

2026

Playing It Cool poster
5.8

A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.

Playing It Cool

2014

Endless Love poster
6.9

A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

Endless Love

2014

John Dies at the End poster
6.3

A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.

John Dies at the End

2013

Southbound poster
5.9

The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

Southbound

2015

Starry Eyes poster
6.1

A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

Starry Eyes

2014

Hover poster
5.2

In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants and the tech that’s meant to be protect them.

Hover

2018

Dye Red poster
5.0

Celeste and Aurora have lived together for some time. Dye Red is a dark but graceful slice-of-life look at their relationship.

Dye Red

2020

American Pets poster
5.5

A young man hatches a diabolical plan to cover-up his Grandma's death.

American Pets

2018

The Aggression Scale poster
5.6

When out-on-bail mob boss Bellavance discovers that $500,000 of his money is missing, he sends four hardcore hit men to send a "loud and messy" message to the suspected thieves' families. But when the killers invade the Rutledge home, they'll meet the household's emotionally disturbed young son Owen. Owen has a history of violent behavior, knows how to make lethal booby-traps and is about to teach these thugs some deadly lessons in extreme vengeance.

The Aggression Scale

2012

Rebirth poster
4.7

A man's life is turned inside out after a visit from his college friend leads him into the unexpected.

Rebirth

2016

Tight poster
NR

A woman grappling with difficulty finding sexual pleasure after childbirth falls back on an old coping habit.

Tight

2024

Frank and Cindy poster
5.7

G.J. Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents, his mother Cindy and his step-father, Frank. Frank used to be a member of OXO, a band from the '80s whose one hit wonder scored with the song "Whirly Girl". Cindy was the ultimate groupie who married Frank and thought life would be glamorous and award shows, but it's not how it turned out.

Frank and Cindy

2015

Teenage Cocktail poster
5.4

Feeling confined by their small town and overbearing parents, Annie and Jules hatch a scheme of running away. The only issue is, they need the money to get there. Jules suggests the couple try webcam modeling. Although she’s nervous at first, Annie can’t argue when the money starts rolling in. But as the girls soon find out, consequences can blindside you. Sometimes violently.

Teenage Cocktail

2016

Sequence Break poster
4.5

A reclusive video arcade technician experiences bizarre biomechanical mutations and hallucinations when a mysterious new arcade machine appears in his shop.

Sequence Break

2017

Carl's Motel poster
NR

Carl's Motel is set over the course of 15 minutes in a motel room where Jack grapples with the choices he has made and is forced to come to terms with his own personal turmoil. This film is inspired by Sam Shepard's Coalinga 1/2 way.

Carl's Motel

2019

Blue Lips poster
6.7

Six people's lives come together.

Blue Lips

2014

Palisade poster
2.0

Lloyd robs a convenience store to help his girlfriend out of debt. To escape the cops, Lloyd breaks into a woman's home, locks himself in her bedroom and holds her cat hostage.

Palisade

2015

Initiation poster
NR

When a college senior is reluctant to haze her freshman soccer teammates, she's bullied into becoming the worst culprit of them all.

Initiation

2015