Monique Coleman

• Birthday: November 13, 1980

Until 2006, Monique Coleman was one of countless young people in Hollywood working as an actress. She had a number of respectable television credits, including several recurring appearances on Disney Channel programs, but beyond her talent and vivacious personalities, there was little to distinguish her from her peers. Then Coleman was cast in a Disney TV-movie called “High School Musical,” which turned out to be not only one of the channel’s highest rated productions to date, but a bonafide global pop culture phenomenon. Since then, Cole…more