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
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'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.
People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.
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.
It's so much easier to complain about something than celebrate it.
Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.
I met the man of my dreams at a gym, and then we got married in Vegas - because we're classy. When you meet at a gym, where else do you get married?
I want to do everything, and I don't think that's too ambitious.
Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.
Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.
Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.