Sarah Hyland
Encyclopedia
Sarah Jane Hyland is an American actress, currently starring as Haley Dunphy on the ABC comedy Modern Family
.
, New York
, the daughter of actors Melissa Canaday and Edward James Hyland and sister of actor Ian Hyland. She has been acting since she was 5 years old, with her first role as Howard Stern
's daughter in Private Parts
. She went on in her career to portray such roles as Molly in the 1999 remake of Annie
, and has played Brooke Shields
' daughter, Maddie Healy, in Lipstick Jungle
on NBC. Hyland is featured in an Olive Garden
commercial along with actress Molly Culver
, and has also appeared on Broadway
playing the young Jackie O
in Grey Gardens the musical
.
Hyland currently portrays Haley Dunphy on the ABC
sitcom Modern Family
, for which she has won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series, along with the rest of the show's cast.
Hyland attended the Professional Performing Arts School
in Manhattan for education alongside Taylor Momsen
, Gregory Malek-Jones
and Paul Iacono
.
Hyland has been dating her fellow actor Matt Prokop
for the past two years.
Modern Family
Modern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, which debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan serve as showrunner and executive producers, under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label...
.
Life and career
Hyland was born in ManhattanManhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, the daughter of actors Melissa Canaday and Edward James Hyland and sister of actor Ian Hyland. She has been acting since she was 5 years old, with her first role as Howard Stern
Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern is an American radio personality, television host, author, and actor best known for his radio show, which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style...
's daughter in Private Parts
Private Parts (1997 film)
Private Parts is a 1997 American biographical comedy film produced by Ivan Reitman and released by Paramount Pictures. Written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko, the film is an adaptation of the 1993 best-selling book of the same name by radio personality Howard Stern, who stars as himself. It...
. She went on in her career to portray such roles as Molly in the 1999 remake of Annie
Annie (1999 film)
Annie is a 1999 American made-for-television musical-comedy film from The Wonderful World of Disney, based on the 1977 stage musical Annie and its 1982 film adaptation, which themselves were based on the 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip by Harold Gray.The film stars Kathy Bates, Victor Garber,...
, and has played Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields
Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress and model. Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon, as well as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan, That '70s Show and Lipstick Jungle....
' daughter, Maddie Healy, in Lipstick Jungle
Lipstick Jungle (TV series)
Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio . The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside...
on NBC. Hyland is featured in an Olive Garden
Olive Garden
Olive Garden is an American restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American cuisine. It is a subsidiary of Darden Restaurants, Inc., which is headquartered in an unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida, near Orlando. Olive Garden operates more than 730 locations globally.- History :The...
commercial along with actress Molly Culver
Molly Culver
Molly Culver is an American actress and model of 1/4 Chickasaw/Choctaw Native American descent . She is best known for portraying the role of Tasha Dexter on the syndicated TV series V.I.P....
, and has also appeared on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
playing the young Jackie O
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...
in Grey Gardens the musical
Grey Gardens (musical)
Grey Gardens is an American musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 documentary of the same title about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale by Albert and David Maysles. The Beales were...
.
Hyland currently portrays Haley Dunphy on the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
sitcom Modern Family
Modern Family
Modern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, which debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan serve as showrunner and executive producers, under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label...
, for which she has won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series, along with the rest of the show's cast.
Hyland attended the Professional Performing Arts School
Professional Performing Arts School
The Professional Performing Arts School or PPAS is a New York City public school.-History:The Professional Performing Arts School was created in 1990 to meet the needs of two groups of students: those who wanted to pursue professional work in the arts as they earned a junior/senior high school...
in Manhattan for education alongside Taylor Momsen
Taylor Momsen
Taylor Michel Momsen is an American actress, musician and model who portrays the character of Jenny Humphrey on the CW television series Gossip Girl and portrayed the role of Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and fronts the rock band The Pretty Reckless.-Early life and career:Taylor...
, Gregory Malek-Jones
Gregory Malek-Jones
Gregory Malek-Jones also known simply as Gregori is an American singer, dancer and actor. and He has appeared with the New York City Ballet in numerous productions and was best known for playing the title role in George Balanchine's Nutcracker.-Life and career:Malek-Jones attended the...
and Paul Iacono
Paul Iacono
Paul Stanley Iacono is an American actor. He appeared in the 2009 remake of Fame and was also the star of the show The Hard Times of RJ Berger on MTV.-Early life:...
.
Hyland has been dating her fellow actor Matt Prokop
Matt Prokop
Matt Prokop is an American actor, known for his role as Jimmie "The Rocket" Zara in High School Musical 3: Senior Year and starred the Disney Channel Original Movie, "Geek Charming", as Josh Rosen.-Life and career:...
for the past two years.
Filmography
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1997 | A Tall Winter's Tale | Elizabeth | |
| Private Parts Private Parts (1997 film) Private Parts is a 1997 American biographical comedy film produced by Ivan Reitman and released by Paramount Pictures. Written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko, the film is an adaptation of the 1993 best-selling book of the same name by radio personality Howard Stern, who stars as himself. It... |
Howard's Daughter | ||
| 1998 | The Object of My Affection The Object of My Affection The Object of My Affection is a 1998 romantic comedy film, adapted from the book of the same title by Stephen McCauley, and starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd. The story concerns a pregnant New York social worker who develops romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and the complications... |
Molly | |
| Advice from a Caterpillar | Lizbeth | ||
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock Cradle Will Rock Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 drama film which chronicles the process and events that surrounded the production of the original 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein... |
Silvano - Giovanna | |
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret Joe Gould's Secret __FORCETOC__Joe Gould's Secret is a 1965 book by Joseph Mitchell, based upon his two New Yorker profiles, "Professor Seagull", and "Joe Gould's Secret", . Mitchell's work details the true story of the eponymous Joe Gould, a writer who lived on the streets of Greenwich Village in the first half of... |
Elizabeth Mitchell | |
| 2002 | The Empath | Young Christine | |
| 2004 | Spanglish Spanglish (film) Spanglish is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by James L. Brooks, and starring Adam Sandler, Paz Vega, and Téa Leoni. It was released in the United States on December 17, 2004 by Columbia Pictures and by Gracie Films, and in other countries over the first several months of... |
Sleepover Friend | |
| 2007 | Blind Date Blind Date (2008 film) Blind Date is a 2008 drama from director Stanley Tucci. This is Tucci's fourth directorial feature, who also stars and co-wrote the screenplay with David Schechter. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival... |
Child | Voice only |
| 2010 | The Science of Cool | Unknown | |
| Cougars, Inc. | Courtney | ||
| 2011 | The Muppets The Muppets (film) The Muppets is a 2011 American musical and comedy film, and the first Muppets theatrical release in 12 years, as well as the first Disney-produced Muppets film since 1996's Muppet Treasure Island... |
Herself | Cameo appearance alongside Disney stars Selena Gomez Selena Gomez Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place... and Sterling Knight Sterling Knight Sterling Sandmann Knight is an American actor, singer-songwriter, comedian and musician. He is best known for his roles in the 2009 film 17 Again as Alex, in Sonny With a Chance and So Random! as Chad Dylan Cooper, and in the Disney Channel Original Movie Starstruck as Christopher Wilde.-Personal... |
| Geek Charming Geek Charming Geek Charming is a 2011 Disney Channel Original Movie based on the novel of the same name by Robin Palmer. The film was directed by Jeffrey Hornaday and was written by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy. It stars Sarah Hyland and Matt Prokop. It premiered on November 11, 2011 on Disney Channel.... |
Dylan Shoenfield | Disney Channel Original Movie; Lead role | |
| 2012 | Struck By Lightning Struck by Lightning (2012 film) Struck by Lightning is an upcoming coming-of-age comedy written by and starring Chris Colfer and directed by Brian Dannelly . After being struck by lightning and killed, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine... |
Claire Mathews | |
| Gay Dude Gay Dude Gay Dude is an upcoming comedy film directed by Chris Nelson and written by Alan Yang. It stars Nicholas Braun, Hunter Cope and Sarah Hyland.-Synopsis:... |
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| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | Trinity Trinity (TV series) Trinity is a British drama series which was broadcast on ITV2 from September to November 2009. The series is set in the fictional "Trinity College" of "Bridgeford University", and stars Charles Dance, Claire Skinner, Antonia Bernath, Christian Cooke, Reggie Yates and Isabella Calthorpe.-Plot... |
Shy Girl | Guest appearance, episode "No Secrets" |
| 1999 | Annie Annie (1999 film) Annie is a 1999 American made-for-television musical-comedy film from The Wonderful World of Disney, based on the 1977 stage musical Annie and its 1982 film adaptation, which themselves were based on the 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip by Harold Gray.The film stars Kathy Bates, Victor Garber,... |
Molly | Guest appearance |
| 1998 | The Audrey Hepburn Story The Audrey Hepburn Story The Audrey Hepburn Story is a 2000 television movie biography of actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who also produced the film, starred as the actress although her casting drew criticism from some of Hepburn's fans and the media... |
Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century... (at 8 years old) |
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| 2000 | Falcone | Jessica Pistone Egan | |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced... |
Lily Ramsey | Guest appearance |
| 2007–2009 | Lipstick Jungle Lipstick Jungle (TV series) Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler for NBC Universal Television Studio . The hour-long series was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Candace Bushnell, who also served as executive producer alongside... |
Maddie Healy | Recurring cast |
| 2009 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced... |
Jennifer Banks | Guest appearance |
| 2009–present | Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, which debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan serve as showrunner and executive producers, under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label... |
Haley Dunphy | Main cast |