Halle Lynn Bailey is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
She was born on March 27, 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
Halle is Known for being one half of the musical duo Chloe x Halle with her sister Chloe Bailey. Together they have earned five Grammy Award nominations since 2018.
Halle’s role as Skyler Forster in the television sitcom Grown-ish has earned her a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 2020 NAACP Image Awards.
On October 1, 2021, Bailey made her debut solo performance with a rendition of the Disney song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”
She will star in the 2023 film adaptation of The Color Purple.
Halle landed the title role in the live-action remake of the classic film — which has wrapped shooting and will open in theaters in May 2023.
How did Halle Bailey get the role of Ariel?
Director Rob Marshall first spotted Bailey on the 2019 Grammy telecast as Chloe x Halle performed “Where Is the Love?” He was enraptured by her crystalline singing voice but didn’t know if she could act. So he asked Bailey to audition for “The Little Mermaid” by singing Ariel’s signature anthem “Part of Your World.”
“When she finished, I was in tears because she’s so soulful,” Marshall remembers. “You could tell right away that she was able to harness Ariel’s passion, her fire, her soul, her joy and her heart.”
The animated classic The Little Mermaid is an adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (later made into a 1985 Steven Spielberg movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey), which tells the coming-of-age story of a young Black woman named Celie and her struggles with an abusive father and husband. Bailey plays Celie’s beloved sister, Nettie, a role she immediately connected with.