Gossip Girl casts Lost actress Andrea Gabriel for final season

Andrea Gabriel has signed on to join the final season of the CW drama Gossip Girl.

The actress is perhaps best known for her role on Lost, where she played Nadia, the love interest of Naveen Andrews’s Sayid.

Variety reports that Gabriel will play a businesswoman from Dubai on the New York soap.

"The Return of the Ring" GOSSIP GIRL Picture (L-R) Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey and as Georgina Sparks PHOTO CREDIT:  David Giesbrecht/©2012 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved
Penn Badgley as Dan Humphrey and Michelle Trachtenberg as Georgina Sparks PHOTO CREDIT: David Giesbrecht/©2012 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved

It was recently announced that Michelle Trachtenberg will also be returning for the last season of the show.

The daughter of actors Sandy and John Gabriel, she will next be seen later this year in Breaking Dawn Part 2.

Season six of Gossip Girl premieres Monday, October 8 at 9pm in the US.