Melanie Moore (born September 17, 1991) is an American professional dancer and actress best known as the winner of the eighth season of the U.S. reality television competition So You Think You Can Dance.
[1] According to the results announced on the broadcast, Moore won "overwhelmingly", garnering 47% of the vote in a four-way final tally.
[2] Moore was educated in Marietta, Georgia, where she attended Lassiter High School and was crowned homecoming queen.
At the time of the SYTYCD competition, she was a 19-year-old college freshman attending Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York City.
[citation needed] Moore appeared on the Oxygen TV show All the Right Moves as a member of the Shaping Sound Dance Company.