Gracie Gillam | |
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 Gracie Gillam in 2019 | |
| Born | Grace Victoria Phipps May 4, 1992 Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, dancer |
| Years active | 2010–present |
Gracie Gillam (born Grace Victoria Phipps; May 4, 1992 [1] ), formerly credited as Grace Phipps, is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is well known for starring in the Disney Channel movies Teen Beach Movie and Teen Beach 2 .
Gillam was born in Austin, Texas, to Kate and Gil Phipps. [2] She has a younger brother named Liam. [2]
She was raised in Boerne, Texas and San Antonio, Texas. She graduated from Robert E. Lee High School's North East School of the Arts, where she majored in musical theater and graduated summa cum laude . [2] [3] She is currently an undergraduate student at Columbia University. [4]
In 2010, she won the Las Casas Performing Arts Scholarship Competition. [5] A Los Angeles agent signed Gillam after seeing her star as Rizzo in a theater production of the musical Grease . [6] [7] [8]
Following her 2010 high school graduation, Gillam moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. After seven days there, she landed the prime role as Bee in the DreamWorks 2011 major movie remake of the 1985 comedy horror film Fright Night. That year, she also originated the regular role of Amy in the ABC Family fantasy drama series The Nine Lives of Chloe King. [6] [9] [10] The series was cancelled after one season. [11]
In 2012 through 2013, Gillam was cast as April Young, a recurring character who plays an edgy natural beauty in The CW's supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries, [12] [13] and appeared in 10 episodes of the fourth season.
In 2013, Gillam appeared as cute biker girl Lela, in an Annette Funicello impression, in Teen Beach Movie, a Disney Channel Original Movie, singing and dancing along with Ross Lynch and Maia Mitchell. [14] [15] [16] The movie, with an audience of 13.5 million viewers, was the second-highest rated cable movie in television history. [17] [18] Phipps had a number of featured solos, including the song "Falling for Ya". [19]
Also in 2013, Gillam appeared in three episodes of the ABC TV comedy series Baby Daddy as Megan, the love interest of Ben (Jean-Luc Bilodeau), in the fantasy-horror TV series Supernatural as Hael, and in the short The Signal as Zoe. [20] [21] The following year, Phipps appeared in Disney's teen sitcom Austin & Ally episode "Directors & Divas", as diva movie star Brandy Braxton. [22] [23]
In 2015, Gillam starred and reprised her role as fiercely independent and brassy biker chick Lela in a sequel teen musical, Teen Beach 2, along with Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, Garrett Clayton, and John DeLuca. [24] [25] [26] It premiered with 5.8 million viewers, as the most-watched cable movie of 2015. [27]
Also in 2015, Gillam starred in the horror movie Dark Summer , playing the part of Mona Wilson. She also played the lead role of a troubled teen cheerleader named Kaitlin in the emotional horror/slasher film Some Kind of Hate , which was featured in the 2015 Stanley Film Festival, the Fantasia International Film Festival, and FrightFest. [28] [29] [30] [15] [31] [32]
That year, she also appeared in three episodes of the black comedy-horror TV series Scream Queens on Fox as Mandy, and was a beauty gangleader named Alice in Paul Solet's punk rock revenge segment of horror comedy Tales of Halloween . [31] [33] [34] In addition, she appeared in the police procedural drama TV series CSI: Cyber as Vanessa Gillerman, and in the police procedural TV series Hawaii Five-0 as Erica Young. [35] [36] She was also featured on the cover of the June/July 2015 issue of Girls' Life . [37] [38]
She appeared on the Syfy TV series Z Nation as Sgt. Lilly from 2017 to 2018. [39]
The Teen Beach Movie soundtrack, which entered the Billboard 200 chart at number eight in July 2013, was released featuring songs performed by Gillam, including her as a main artist in the song "Falling for Ya" and featured in the songs "Cruisin' for a Bruisin'", "Like Me", "Meant to Be", and "Coolest Cats in Town". [40] "Cruisin' for a Bruisin'" and "Falling for Ya" topped Billboard's Kid Digital charts for weeks, with "Falling for Ya" reaching number 25 on the Heatseekers Songs chart and number 66 on the Hot Digital Songs chart. [40] [41]
In 2014, Phipps appeared in the Austin & Ally episode "Directors & Divas" [22] [23] and performed "The Pilot and the Mermaid" with Ross Lynch.
In 2015, her song "Gotta Be Me" from Teen Beach 2 was nominated in the Teen Choice Awards as the Choice Song from a Movie or TV Show; she sang the song with Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, Garrett Clayton, John Deluca, and Jordan Fisher. [42]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Fright Night | Bee | |
| 2013 | The Signal | Zoe | Short |
| 2015 | Dark Summer | Mona Wilson | |
| Some Kind of Hate | Kaitlin | ||
| Tales of Halloween | Alice | ||
| 2019 | The Lost Weekend | Maggie Mae | Short |
| 2021 | Superhost | Rebecca |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Nine Lives of Chloe King | Amy Tiffany Martin | Main role |
| 2012–13 | The Vampire Diaries | April Young | Recurring role |
| 2013–15 | Baby Daddy | Megan | Recurring role |
| 2013 | Teen Beach Movie | Lela | TV film; Disney Channel Original Movie |
| Supernatural | Hael | Episode: "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here" | |
| 2014 | Austin & Ally | Brandy Braxton | Episode: "Directors & Divas" |
| 2015 | Hawaii Five-0 | Erica Young | Episode: "Wawahi moeʻuhane (Broken Dreams)" |
| 2015 | CSI: Cyber | Vanessa Gillerman | Episode: "Selfie 2.0" |
| Teen Beach 2 | Lela | TV film; Disney Channel Original Movie | |
| Scream Queens | Young Mandy Greenwell | Recurring role | |
| 2017–18 | Z Nation | Sgt Lilly | Main cast (Season 4–5) |
| 2020 | Stolen In Plain Sight | Melissa | TV film: Lifetime Movie Network Original Movie |
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [43] | US OST [43] | BEL [44] | CAN [43] | FRA [45] | NL [46] | NZ [47] | SPA [48] | UK [49] | ||||||
| Teen Beach Movie [50] |
| 3 | 1 | 176 | 14 | 76 | 56 | 30 | 15 | 36 | ||||
| Teen Beach 2 [51] |
| 10 | 1 | — | — | 129 | — | — | 67 | — | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [52] | US Heat. [43] | IRL [53] | UK [54] | ||||||||||||
| "Cruisin' for a Bruisin'" (with Ross Lynch & Jason Evigan) | 2013 | 82 | 6 | 90 | 117 | Teen Beach Movie | |||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Bub. | US Heat. [56] | US Kid | US Holiday [58] | UK [54] | ||||||||||
| "Like Me" (with Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, & Spencer Lee) | 2013 | 1 | 10 | 3 | — | 177 | Teen Beach Movie | |||||||
| "Falling For Ya" | 23 | 25 | 2 | — | — | |||||||||
| "Meant To Be" (with Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, Spencer Lee and Garrett Clayton) | — | — | 5 | — | — | |||||||||
| "Coolest Cats In Town" (with Spencer Lee and Jason Evigan | — | — | 20 | — | — | |||||||||
| "Gotta Be Me" (with Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell,Garrett Clayton, John DeLuca & Jordan Fisher) | 2015 | 23 | — | 3 | — | — | Teen Beach 2 | |||||||
| "Best Summer Ever" (with Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, Garrett Clayton, Jordan Fisher, John DeLuca and Chrissie Fit) | — | — | 5 | — | — | |||||||||
| "That's How We Do" (with Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, Garrett Clayton, Jordan Fisher and John DeLuca) | — | — | 4 | — | — | |||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||||||||||||
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