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My Take
Grace Phipps strikes me as a quietly capable performer rather than a manufactured star. The Austin native built a versatile résumé, singing and dancing through Disney's Teen Beach Movie as Lela and turning darker as April Young on The Vampire Diaries. I find it telling that she works under the alias Gracie Gillam too, a sign of an actor thinking carefully about craft and identity. Born in 1992, she belongs to that wave of multi-hyphenate young talents who can carry a teen musical and a supernatural drama with equal ease. I respect steady, range-driven careers like hers more than flashier ones.
Overview
Grace Phipps (born May 4, 1992), known professionally as Gracie Gillam, is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is best known for starring in the Disney Channel Original Movies Teen Beach Movie and Teen Beach 2 as Lela, as well as starring in the fourth season of The Vampire Diaries as April Young.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Gracie Gillam
- Name (Japanese)
- グレイス・フィップス
- Reading
- ぐれいす・ふぃっぷす
- Born
- May 4, 1992 (age 34)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Monkey
- Origin
- Austin, Texas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / singer / television actor / film actor / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Robert E. Lee High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.