Taylor McKessie

Taylor McKessie is one of the main characters from the High School Musical Franchise. She has appeared in all three of the films.

High School Musical
In the first film, she is shown as finding the school's athlete as tribal. She is also impressed at the intellect of new student Gabriella Montez. Articles of Gabriella's academic achievements at her old schools are placed in Taylor's locker. Although Gabriella did not slip the articles in the locker, she agrees to join the decathlon team at Taylor's suggestion. However, when Gabriella's interest begins to turn to the school musical and Troy Bolton, Taylor teams up with Troy's best friend, Chad Danforth, to make sure they can keep their friends away from one another and focused on the prize. While Chad and his basketball teammates explain to Troy that they will not win the district championship game if he is involved with the musical, they film him saying that the musical and Gabriella are not important. Taylor show Gabriella the footage and she is left heartbroken. Realising the magnitude of what they have done, Taylor and Chad work together again to make sure Troy and Gabriella make the musical call-backs. Taylor's role in the plan is to set off a chemical reaction that would result in the evacuation of the national decathlon. At the end of the film, Taylor is asked out by Chad.

High School Musical 2
In the second film, Taylor, Gabriella, Chad, Troy and their friends are hired at the Lava Springs country club, owned by the parents of Sharpay Evans, the school drama queen. Taylor is the first to notice that Troy is changing and being pulled into Sharpay's world. She tries to convince Gabriella that Troy is no longer the nice guy she fell for.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year
In the third film, Taylor is editor of the school yearbook. While she will attend Yale University and study political science (with the goal of becoming President of the United States), she pushes Gabriella to accept an early orientation at Stanford University while joining the others for a last spring musicale. She also attended prom with Chad.

Songs
The following is a list of songs that are performed by Taylor or include her in them:


 * We're All in This Together
 * What Time Is It?
 * Work This Out
 * Everyday
 * All for One
 * A Night to Remember
 * High School Musical

Friends

 * Gabriella Montez - Taylor's best friend.
 * Kelsi Nielsen
 * Martha Cox

Romantic

 * Chad Danforth - Taylor's romantic interest throughout all three films.