Botanist.
Gael Jean Campbell-Young (née Campbell; born 1973, Carletonville) is a South African-born plant taxonomist and actor. She was actively involved in botanical research in South Africa until 2007, at which point she emigrated to Australia. Campbell-Young jointly discovered a new species of Pearsonia (Fabaceae) and the finding was published in 2008. She continued her work in botanical research while pursuing a PhD at Curtin University and after a period of research management and academic teaching interspersed with a sabbatical in which she trained in the dramatic arts, she pivoted her career into