Career
She is best known for her roles on television shows Fame as Coco Hernandez and on Profiler as Angel Brown. She is also known for her major recurring roles on the television shows Emergency as Adele Newman and on Veronica Mars as Alicia Fennel. Gimpel was most recently on the Home Box Office series True Blood, Season 5 Episode 11, as the Fairy Elder.
Gimpel was a judge on Raidió Teilifís Éireann One"s Fame: The Musical, an Irish television talent show seeking a boy and a girl to play Nick and Serena respectively in the Irish touring production of Fame.
In January 2010, Gimpel released her first Civil Defense, Spread your Wings and Fly. Gimpel was born in Manhattan, New New York
In 1982, she graduated from New York"s High School of Performing Arts. She had toured the United States and Europe with her mother, singer Phyllis Bash, in the play "Porgy and Bess." Her father is Joseph Gimpel, a short story writer