Megan Hilty
Megan Hilty
Megan Kathleen Hilty is an American actress and singer. She rose to prominence for her roles in Broadway musicals, including her performance as Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked, Doralee Rhodes in 9 to 5: The Musical, and her Tony Award-nominated role as Brooke Ashton in Noises Off. She also starred as Ivy Lynn on the musical-drama series Smash, on which she sang the Grammy Award-nominated "Let Me Be Your Star", and portrayed Liz on the sitcom Sean Saves the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth29 March 1981
CityBellevue, WA
CountryUnited States of America
I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this is really about.' I want to go and have a good time.
I essentially get to represent my community on television.
I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.
As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.
[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal
I just like working. I'm not good with downtime. I need to be doing something. I'm a music person, so I'll always have that going ... whether or not I'm getting paid for it . It was different to go into talk shows and performances by myself.
When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.
I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed to it before. We took Broadway and put it in peoples' living rooms once a week for two seasons. People still come up to me in the street and say, 'I never went to theater before I saw "Smash.'" That's the greatest compliment.
Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.
I have two Jack Russell terriers, Harley and Gracie, who I like to go running with in the park.
The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.