Monique Coleman (Born on November 13th, 1980) is an American actress best known for being one of the co-stars of the Disney Channel hit original movie, High School Musical, in which she plays Gabriella Montez's (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) best friend Taylor McKessie. She is part Indian and part Creole. As of August 14, 2006, she was revealed to be one of the contestants on Dancing with the Stars 3.

Aside from co-starring in High School Musical, Monique has also been a guest star in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody episodes, Forever Plaid, Not So Suite 16, and Neither a Borrower Nor a Speller Bee along with Vanessa Anne Hudgens. She also guest-starred on the show in A Prom Story. Monique has had seven other guest appearances on the television shows Boston Public, Gilmore Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, Strong Medicine, 10-8, Married to the Kellys, and Veronica Mars. Monique is also in the first ever Disney Channel Games, on the Blue Team, along with Brenda Song, Corbin Bleu, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Cole Sprouse, and Jason Earles.

Though she is 25, she plays two high-school age characters in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and High School Musical.

Monique will be seen as a competitor on the third season of ABC's Dancing With The Stars.

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