Austin Highsmith Garces, also credited as Austin Highsmith, is an American actress. Garces played Phoebe in Dolphin Tale as well as the sequel, Dolphin Tale 2 and Garces later co-wrote a Lifetime film based on the series. She later wrote and co-starred in Harvest of the Heart. In January 2023, she originated the role of Annie in Warren Leight's Home Front at Burbank's Victory Theater Center. Garces is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina and was a 1999 graduate of Richard J. Reynolds High School.