Kobe was born Gabriella Joyce Kobe in Hamtramck, Michigan. Graduated from UCLA earning a fine arts degree in theatre and dance.
During the 1950s/60s, she made guest appearances on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Bourbon Street Beat, Whirlybirds, The Californians, The Rebel, Felony Squad, Ironside, The Outer Limits, Hogan's Heroes, The Twilight Zone ("In His Image"), Dr. Kildare, Empire, Gunsmoke, Daniel Boone, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables , Have Gun will Travel, The Mod Squad, and Mannix.
In 1962, she portrayed the part of Dr. Louise Amadon in the episode "A Woman's Place" on CBS's Rawhide.
On February 17, 1959, Kobe was cast in the episode "Disaster Town" of the syndicated series, Rescue 8, and on NBC western series, Laramie, Kobe played a saloon girl, Lottie Harris, in the episode "Gun Duel" (aired December 25, 1962).
Kobe had a six-month role as Doris Schuster in ABC's Peyton Place, and a recurring role on the CBS western, Trackdown. She appeared on daytime television in the NBC serial Bright Promise as Ann Boyd Jones (1970–72).
Kobe began to work behind the camera as supervising producer and associate producer on such daytime programs as CBS's The Edge of Night and NBC's Return to Peyton Place. From 1981–82, its final year on the air, Kobe became executive producer of the NBC soap opera, Texas. From 1983–86, she was the executive producer of CBS's Guiding Light (for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award) and then served as a producer on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful from its debut in 1987 through the early 1990s.
Kobe was a member of St. Louis church. She volunteered many hours to Eisenhower Medical Center and the Palm Springs Art Museum while she lived in Palm Springs. She was very active at Channel 22 the time she resided at the Motion Picture Television Fund home, organizing the show We've Got Mail among other Fund activities.
In 2008, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, Walk of Stars was dedicated in Kobe's honor.
For the last two years of her life, the twice married Kobe resided at the Motion Picture Television Fund Home, Woodland Hills, California, where she died on August 1, 2013, aged 81, from undisclosed causes.

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