Sarah Jane Hyland (born November 24, 1990) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Haley Dunphy in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Born in Manhattan, she attended the Professional Performing Arts School before having minor roles in the films Private Parts (1997), Annie (1999) and Blind Date (2007).
Hyland also had roles in the films Geek Charming (2011), Struck by Lightning (2012), Scary Movie 5 (2013), Vampire Academy (2014), See You in Valhalla (2015), XOXO (2016), Dirty Dancing (2017), and The Wedding Year (2019). She has appeared on Broadway in Grey Gardens (2006–2007), The Great Gatsby (2025), and Just in Time (2025–2026). From 2022 to 2023, Hyland hosted Love Island USA on Peacock.
As a singer, in addition to Broadway theatre and off-Broadway performances, Hyland sang "Closer" and "Don't Wanna Know" (peaked at No. 62 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 chart in December 2016) with Boyce Avenue. She has also collaborated with BoTalks, Jordan McGraw, Adam DeVine and others.
Early life and education Sarah Jane Hyland was born in the East Village of Lower Manhattan (in New York City, New York) on November 24, 1990. She is the daughter of actors Melissa Canaday and Edward James Hyland, and the sister of actor Ian Hyland.
Hyland attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan."Sarah Hyland: Haley Dunphy on ABC's "Modern Family". ABC Studio.
Career Hyland has been acting since her first role as Howard Stern's daughter in the film Private Parts in 1997."It's Evening in America". Vanity Fair. May 2012. Page 159. She went on to portray roles such as Molly in the 1999 television film of Annie and Maddie Healy in Lipstick Jungle on NBC. Hyland was featured in an Olive Garden commercial along with actress Molly Culver. She also appeared on Broadway as the young Jacqueline Bouvier in Grey Gardens (2006).
From 2009 to 2020, Hyland played Haley Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family, for which she and the rest of the show's cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series each year from 2011 through 2014.
In 2011, Hyland co-starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Geek Charming. In 2012, Hyland appeared in the film Struck by Lightning.Dish Of Salt: Sarah Hyland Gets 'Struck By Lightning'. Access Hollywood (March 26, 2012). Retrieved on April 3, 2012. In September 2012, she was involved in a Nintendo 3DS ad campaign along with Dianna Agron and Gabby Douglas.
Additional musical projects and theatre productions Hyland has performed in are: Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live (2013 concert), Hair (2014 adaptation at the Hollywood Bowl), The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Scream (2014 play at Rockwell Table & Stage) and The Kindred Foundation for Adoption created by Jenna Ushkowitz and Samantha Futerman (2015 fundraiser).
In 2014 and 2018, Hyland was a co-host at the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade (during Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration and The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration), which included dancing and singing with Jordan Fisher. Hyland also made a guest appearance during The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 (2016) and Mickey's 90th Spectacular (2018).
In 2016, Hyland covered songs with Boyce Avenue such as "Closer" by The Chainsmokers and "Don't Wanna Know" by Maroon 5, both included on the Boyce Avenue album Cover Sessions Vol. 4, which was released on December 19, 2017. "Don't Wanna Know" peaked at No. 62 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 chart in December 2016.
In 2019, Hyland partnered with Olay for a skin product campaign.
Hyland sang her debut performance of "Met At a Party" with Jordan McGraw (son of Dr. Phil) at the 2019 Teen Choice Awards. The single was released on August 9, 2019, via Republic Records.
In December 2020, Hyland appeared in a Taco Bell commercial called "The Craving" with Joe Keery.
In October 2021, she became the new creative director and co-founder of Sourse, a line of chocolate-infused vitamins (including "Beauty Bites" and "Mood Bites").
In August 2022, Hyland began hosting Love Island USA on Peacock. In August 2022, she appeared on America's Got Talent (alongside Sofía Vergara) during the first live Qualifier Results Show of season seventeen to assist season sixteen winner Dustin Tavella with his magic act.
Hyland starred in Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin, which premiered in November 2022 on Peacock.
From May 28 to September 29, 2024, she played Audrey in the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors opposite Andrew Barth Feldman as Seymour.Andrew Barth Feldman, Sarah Hyland to Join Little Shop of Horrors Off-Broadway Hyland returned to Broadway on February 10, 2025, in The Great Gatsby as Daisy opposite Ryan McCartan in the title role.Sarah Hyland to Join Broadway's The Great Gatsby From October 2025 to March 2026, she replaced Gracie Lawrence in Just in Time as Connie Francis starring opposite Jonathan Groff.Hall, Margaret Sarah Hyland and Sadie Dickerson To Join Just in Time on Broadway Playbill, September 3, 2025 She was replaced by Isa Briones.
Personal life Relationships Hyland dated her Geek Charming co-star Matt Prokop for four years after meeting in 2010. In August 2014, Hyland obtained a domestic violence temporary restraining order against Prokop for physically and verbally abusing her throughout the four years of their relationship. In October of that same year, the restraining order became permanent.
Hyland dated her Shadowhunters and Vampire Academy co-star Dominic Sherwood from 2015 until 2017.
In 2017, Hyland began a relationship with Wells Adams, a radio and television personality and former contestant on The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise. The couple became engaged in July 2019, and, in May 2020, they purchased a home in Los Angeles, a month before their planned wedding date. However, the COVID-19 pandemic caused them to postpone their wedding multiple times. An outdoor bridal shower in early June 2022 marked the end of their two-year delay, and the couple married at a California vineyard on August 20, 2022. Their wedding was attended by Hyland's Modern Family co-stars.
Health Hyland was diagnosed with kidney dysplasia as a child and received a kidney transplant from her father in April 2012. That kidney failed after a few years, leading to a second kidney transplant in September 2017, donated by her younger brother, Ian. Hyland is on regular anti-rejection medicines and steroids to ensure that her body does not reject her donated kidney; consequently, Hyland has difficulty maintaining weight and muscle mass, and has been put on bed-rest several times, sometimes continuing to film Modern Family simultaneously. Hyland has said that she does not recall shooting some episodes of Modern Family because she was so tired that she slept most of the time she was not shooting her scenes.
In a December 2018 Self magazine article, Hyland said she had contemplated suicide because she felt she was a burden on her family and blamed herself for her body rejecting her father's kidney. Since birth, she has undergone 16 surgeries to improve her health, including numerous kidney surgeries and a laparoscopic surgery to treat her endometriosis.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1997 A Tall Winter's Tale Elizabeth Private Parts Howard's daughter 1998 The Object of My Affection Molly Advice from a Caterpillar Lizbeth 1999 Cradle Will Rock Silvano – Giovanna 2000 Joe Gould's Secret Elizabeth Mitchell 2002 The Empath Young Christine 2004 Spanglish Sleepover friend 2007 Blind Date Child Voice 2010 Monster Heroes Delilah Cougars, Inc. Courtney 2011 Conception Tracey 2012 Struck by Lightning Claire Mathews 2013 Scary Movie 5 Mia April Apocalypse Samm 2014 Vampire Academy Natalie Dashkov Date and Switch Ava 2015 See You in Valhalla Johana Burwood Also producer 2016 Satanic Chloe Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League – Gotham City Breakout Batgirl Voice A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening credits or other reliable sources of information. XOXO Krystal Also executive producer 2019 The Wedding Year Mara Baylor 2022 My Fake Boyfriend Kelly Mia Filming
Television Year Title Role Notes 1997–1998 Another World Rain Wolfe 1998 Trinity Shy girl Episode: "No Secrets" 1999 Annie Molly Television film 2000 The Audrey Hepburn Story Young Audrey Hepburn Television film All My Children Karen 2 episodes Falcone Jess Pistone Egan Unknown episodes 2001, 2009Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Lily Ramsey Episode: "Repression" Jennifer Banks Episode: "Hothouse" 2002 Touched by an Angel Grace Episode: "A Feather on the Breath of God" 2004 Law & Order Kristine McLean Episode: "The Dead Wives Club" 2005 Law & Order: Trial by Jury Brianne Colby Episode: "Vigilante" 2007 One Life to Live Heather 7 episodes 2008–2009 Lipstick Jungle Maddie Healy 15 episodes 2009–2020 Modern Family Haley Dunphy Main role; 218 episodes 2010 Cubed Herself Episode 2.4 2011Childrens Hospital Famous person Episode: "Nip/Tug" Geek Charming Dylan Schoenfield Television film 2012 Punk'd Herself Episode: "Lucy Hale" Perception Girl with Tourette syndrome Episode: "Kilimanjaro" 2012–2015 Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja Theresa Fowler Voice, 11 episodes 2013 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film Grace Television film; segment: "Grace" Bonnie & Clyde Blanche Barrow Miniseries 2014 Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise Lena Luthor Voice, television special Hot in Cleveland Ivy Episode: "Rusty Banks Rides Again" 2015 Repeat After Me Herself Episode: "Episode 101" Turbo FastGossip SnailVoice, episode: "Home on Our Own" The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar Tiifu Voice, television film 2016–2017The Lion Guard Voice, 4 episodes 2016 Lip Sync Battle Shorties Herself Host; TV special (pilot) 2017 Lip Sync Battle Episode: "Sarah Hyland vs. DeAndre Jordan" Dimension 404 Chloe Episode: "Cinethrax" Dirty Dancing Lisa Houseman Television film Shadowhunters Seelie Queen 2 episodes The Lion Guard: The Rise of Scar Tiifu Voice, television film 2019 Veronica Mars Alyssa Episode: "Heads You Lose" 2020 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Herself (guest judge) Episode: "SheMZ" Celebrity Game Face Herself Premiere episode 2021 Epic Rose Pilot 2021–present Play-Doh Squished Herself Host 2022–2023Love Island USAHost 2022 Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin Heidi Miller Main role
Theatre Year Title Role Notes 2002 Annie Annie Paper Mill Playhouse 2006–2007 Grey Gardens Jacqueline Bouvier (1941) Broadway 2014 Hair Chrissy Hollywood Bowl 2024 Little Shop of Horrors Audrey Off-Broadway 2025 The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Broadway 2025–2026 Just in Time Connie Francis 2026–2027CabaretSally BowlesWest End
Web Year Title Role Notes 2020 Lady Parts Herself (host) Also creator and executive producer 2022 Bone, Marry, Bury Allie Voice role; podcast, 7 episodes
Music videos Year Title Artist(s) 2009 "In the Moonlight (Do Me)" Reid Ewing 2016 "Like I Did" Shane Harper 2016 "Closer" Boyce Avenue featuring Sarah Hyland 2016 "Don't Wanna Know" 2017 "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" Sarah Hyland and J. Quinton Johnson 2018 "Know U Anymore" BoTalks featuring Sarah Hyland
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