Mollee Gray

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Mollee Gray was born on May 15th 1991 in Orem, Utah. Gray studied at The Dance Club as a child. Gray's film debut was as a dancer and supporting actress in the 2002 dance movie, Out of Step. 

 

In 2005, she auditioned, against her teachers' advice who claimed she was too young, for the Disney Channel Original Movie, High School Musical at age 14 and ended up being a featured dancer. She then auditioned for High School Musical 2 and became a principal dancer. She was also featured as a principal dancer in the 2008 MTV movie The American Mall, starring The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev. She is mostly featured in the number "Survivor".

 

 In 2008, she was cast as a principal dancer in the third and final High School Musical film, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, where she can be seen in most scenes throughout the movie, as an extra or a dancer. She started training with dance teacher/choreographer TOKYO and later on became his assistant.

 

 In 2009, Gray auditioned in Los Angeles for So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) Season 6 at 18. Despite the Judges' doubts about her being too young and immature, she made Top 20 on her first try. She was paired with Nathan Trasoras and made her way to the Semi-finals. She was voted off on December 9, 2009. The day after the elimination she was featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show where she performed with fellow SYTYCD dancer Legacy. 

In 2011, Gray made a cameo appearance on Nickelodeon's television show Big Time Rush in the episode "Big Time Guru". She was also one of the dancers in the Big Time Rush number at the 2011 Kids' Choice Awards. She was also featured in the Nickelodeon TV show Victorious, in the episode "Beggin On Your Knees", and in Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva. She was also in the number "Who Run The World (Girls)" in the episode "Asian F" of the third season of Glee. Her first acting role was in the 2011 film No Strings Attached, starring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman, where she played a character named Sari. Sari was a very self-conscious actress in a TV show where Kutcher's character Adam worked.^[3] She was also featured in the TV series Suburgatory, in the episode "Black Thai" and was a dancer in reality TV shows such as America's Got Talent, The Voice and Dancing With The Stars.

Gray released her first music video for her song "You Don't Know Anything About Me" online on August 7, 2011. The song was written and produced by Jim Wirt. The video was directed by Brian Ramage, and choreographed by Tokyo and Jessica Warfield. She later released her single "Wasted" on iTunes. Gray was a dancer in the 2012 American Music Awards in the number for "I Knew You Were Trouble" by Taylor Swift.^[4]

She appeared as Giggles, a surfer, in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Teen Beach Movie, which was filmed in Puerto Rico in 2012 and premiered on July 19, 2013 on Disney Channel. Later that year, Gray auditioned as a member of a girl band for The X Factor on its third season, but did not make it to the second stage. In 2015, she reprised her role as Giggles for Teen Beach 2.

 

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Attending the 'Adventures In Babysitting' premiere in Los Angeles - June 24th, 2016.

      

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Attending Out Magazine’s Power 50 Gala in Los Angeles / August 10th, 2017