Halle Lynn Bailey (born March 27, 2000) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is best known for being one half of the musical duo Chloe x Halle with her sister Chlöe Bailey, together earning five Grammy Award nominations since 2018. Her 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. She will star in the 2023 film adaptation of The Color Purple, and in the same year will portray Ariel in the 2023 live-action Disney film The Little Mermaid, which is based on the 1989 animated film of the same name.
Early life
Halle Lynn Bailey was born on March 27, 2000, and raised in Mableton, Georgia, with her older sister Chloe Bailey and her younger brother Branson (born October 3, 2005), later moving together to Los Angeles in mid-2012. As children, the sisters began writing their own songs, learning to play instruments through watching YouTube tutorials. Their father and co-manager, Doug Bailey, who "taught to do everything on own," began teaching them how to write songs at the ages of 8 and 10.