Chanel Maya Banks, a 36-year-old Los Angeles actress who in her 20s appeared in Gossip Girl, Blue Bloods and the 2010 Joel Schumacher feature film Twelve starring Chace Crawford and Rory Culkin, has gone missing, her family reports.
Banks performed under the name Chanel Farrell in the 2009-2010 TV appearances. In Gossip Girl, she played the recurring character Sawyer Bennett.
According to family members, Banks, who has been living in the Playa Vista area of L.A., has not been heard from since October 30.
Law enforcement has conducted welfare checks at the apartment Banks shares with her husband but could not locate her. On a GoFundMe page, Banks’ cousin Danielle-Tori Singh writes that two such welfare checks have been undertaken – on November 7 and November 8 – and Banks was not in the apartment.
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