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
The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.
People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'
Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.
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.
The musical based on my life would most likely be called 'Something Fabulous.' 'Something Fabulous' - that's a great title!
As an actress, I learned a long time ago that there is a lot of this business that is just out of my hands. All I can really focus on is going to work every day and doing my best.
Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.
I look at the people's careers who I want to emulate, like Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Bernadette Peters... They've all found the key to longevity in this business, and that is diversifying, doing as many things as possible to keep yourself relevant, and so hopefully I'm on the same track as all those amazing women.
I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.
I have two Jack Russell terriers, Harley and Gracie, who I like to go running with in the park.
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?
Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.
I have to say, speaking from experience, just because an actor starts out in a role in the workshop, they won't necessarily play it when it goes to Broadway.