Sarah Hyland

Sarah Jane Hyland (born December 19, 1945) is an actress best known for playing Haley Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family.

Early Life
Sarah Hyland was born in New York City, to parents Melissa Canaday and Edward James Hyland. She is also the big sister fellow actor Ian Hyland.

Career
Sarah began in the business at the age of 4 with commercial work and voice overs. Her first film was Private Parts (1997). She then moved on to The Object of My Affection (1998) and then spent time on Another World as Rain Wolfe, a child found in the park, and fostered by Josie and Gary. Sarah would go on to work with Amy Carlson several more times: Falcone, Law & Order and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Sarah was cast as one of the young Audrey Hepburns in Jennifer Love Hewitt's The Audrey Hepburn Story the same year she was cast as Molly in ABC's TV movie version of Annie starring Kathy Bates, Audra McDonald, Alan Cummings, Victor Garber and Kristin Chenoweth'. Aside from all of her film and television work, Sarah studied voice, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, tap, theater Dance, and performed with her tap and theater dance class at Reel to Real at Lincoln Center as invited performers.

Her work on Lipstick Jungle (2008) as Brooke Shields's daughter further showcased her talent. After the cancellation of Lipstick Jungle, drew her to Los Angeles and the role of Haley Dunphy on Modern Family (2009).

Personal Life
For five years, from 2009 to 2014, Sarah dated Matt Prokop, who was in High School Musical 3 and Geek Charming (in which she starred alongside him). They parted ways for abusive reasons. Today she is dating Vampire Academy co-star Dominic Sherwood. So far they have no plans for marriage.

Kidney Disease & Transplant
In 2012, Sarah revealed as she reported to Seventeen Magazine & Good Morning America that she had a secret long battle with kidney disease since she was the age of nine. She hid her pain by sitting down and/or texting in character while filming. To make matters worse, she couldn't get a transplant until her pain got worse which it eventually did. So she set out to find a donor or she's history. Then a miraculous moment occurred, she learned that her father Edward James Hyland was the perfect donor; so she finally got the deserving transplant she was hoping for on April 22, 2012. Sarah recovered over the summer of 2012 while her current hit show was on summer break.

Show appeared

 * Lip Sync Battle

Show Hosted

 * Lip Sync Battle Shorties