Biography
Gaius Lee DuPree is a child actor. His most recent film works are: Relation Shipwreck (2015),Dead Redux (2016), A Little Different (2015), Rook (2014), ...to Ashes (2014), Insignifigance (2014), My Devil's Night, Back Where She Came From (2015), Doritos: ASL Doritos Baby - Crash the Super Bowl 2014 (2014) and Vamp Bikers the Series (2015).
It all began with a commercial job, as the "PYRAM Boy" (2014) with the PYRAM Company, selling Essential Oils, in Riverside, California. During doing this commerical job, he was recognized by a low budget filmmaker and he received his first movie role in Vamp Bikers the Series (2015) portraying the character "Kevin". While wrapping Vamp Bikers the Series (2014), the creator and the director were very pleased with his performance, and they recast him as "Kevin" in the Vamp Vamp Bikers the Series (2015). He was selected to portray an "A+" list character in My Devil's Night (2015), and he auditioned for the director Steve Habecker and cast director Rachael Lyne Farrokh shortly after his first film wrapped.
After Gaius Lee got cast by "My Devil's Night", the producer/ director, Nathan Vellappally of "Rook" (2014) noticed Gaius Lee, and he liked & cast him as a mafia's baby son, "William Pearson Jr". The creative writers of Dracula: The Dark World saw Gaius Lee in a screen-shot from Rook; and being inspired by Demo Reels of Gaius Lee's character, "William Pearson, Jr", he cast Gaius Lee as the main character, the Dark Prince. Gaius Lee continues to thrive throughout his multiple film resume.
Gaius Lee was born profoundly Deaf, to Jeffrey Lee DuPree and Thanya Marie DuPree in Tampa, Florida in 2013. He is a fifth generation deaf member of the DuPree family, second of 3 children. His two other brothers are Mason Lee DuPree and actor Phoenix Lee DuPree. Gaius has a sign name, of which is "GL" on the left shoulder, above the heart. His Deaf Mason Lee also shares same sign name, as part of the family's traditional sign names.
Gaius' primary language is American Sign Language, and he learned the sign 'milk', at two months old, making him the world's youngest person to learn sign language. He is being taught American Sign Language, of which depend upon facial expressions for grammar, and specific hand shapes for certain signs- by professionals and by his loving parents, of whom both are Native American Sign Language speakers. When Gaius reached five months old, his family decided to move to California to begin his film career after many people told them that he should be in film industry.
