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
People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!
I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.
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 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.
The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why.
I secretly love the song 'No More Tears.' It's my go-to karaoke song that I do with all my friends.
Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.
The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.
I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton... and at the same time, no less! I'm not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.
I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.
Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.
You always hear about how women working together will catfight.