By Carmenlita Castillo
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Adrienne Monique Coleman (born November 13, 1980) is an American actress and dancer. She is best known for her role as Taylor McKessie in the High School Musical movies.
She was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She started her acting career in theater and television at a young age in Columbia, South Carolina. She trained at the Workshop Theater School of Dramatic Arts where she performed in over fifteen plays. Coleman went to Heathwood Hall Episcopal School. She later attended The Theater School at DePaul University in Chicago, earning her BFA in Acting in 2002.
In 2006, Coleman starred in High School Musical, portraying Taylor McKessie, the best friend of the new girl at school, Gabriella Montez (played by Vanessa Hudgens). She had previously worked on the Disney Channel as a recurring guest star in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. In the summer of 2006, Coleman took part in the first Disney Channel Games. She was also the host of 3 Minute Game Show: High School Musical Edition, which aired on the Disney Channel in 2007. That year, Coleman recorded a song called “Christmas Vacation” for the compilation album Disney Channel Holiday. She later appeared in High School Musical 2 (2007) and High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008), reprising her role as Taylor McKessie.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
The letters signified by the signal ( … – – – … ) prescribed by the International Radiotelegraph Convention of 1908 for use by ships in distress. SOS was chosen as the universal distress signal because this combination of three dots followed by three dashes followed by three dots was easy to send and easily recognized, especially since they were usually sent as a nine-character signal, which stood out against the background of three-character Morse Code letters. The letters themselves are meaningless. SOS does not stand for Save Our Souls, Save Our Ship, Stop Other Signals, or Sure Of Sinking.
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Esaias Tegner (writer) –
- Lady Caroline Ponsonby Lamb (author) –
- Edwin Booth (actor) –
- Robert Louis Stevenson (author) –
- Louis Brandeis (U.S. Supreme Court justice) –
- Bennie Moton (Jazz pioneer; born in Kansas City, Missouri) –
- Alexander Scourby (actor) –
- Richard Mulligan (actor) –
- Garry Marshall (producer, director, & actor) –
- Dack Rambo (actor) –
- Chris Noth (actor) –
- Whoopi Goldberg (actress) –
- Jimmy Kimmel (television host) –
- Monique Coleman (actress) –
Died
- Gioacchino Rossini (composer) –
- Irv Rubin (Jewish Defense League leader) –
- Robert Pershing “Bobby” Doerr (baseball player) –
- Katherine MacGregor (actress) –
Events
- David Kirke granted co-proprietorship of Newfoundland –
- U.S. General Montgomery captured Montreal –
- Thousands of meteors fell per hour in the eastern United States –
- The Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey opened –
- Ginger Rogers married Lew Ayres –
- Walt Disney’s Fantasia premiered at the Broadway Theater in New York; first film to attempt to use stereophonic sound –
- Sammy Davis Jr. married May Britt –
- Bob Pettit was the first to reach 20,000 career points in the NBA –
- Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet (Mars) –
- Li’l Abner, Al Capp’s 43-year-old comic strip, appeared in newspapers for the last time –
- The Wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated, Washington, D.C. –
- Volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts in Colombia, killing over 23,000 people. –
- Groundbreaking ceremony held for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. –
Weather
- The first great storm of what became the Dust Bowl spread a pall from the Great Plains to New York –
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