Hailey Kilgore

ACTOR

The search for Ti Moune for the “Once on This Island” revival was straight out of a movie, according to Kilgore, eventual star of the show. “I get really excited anytime anyone asks me to tell the story. It’s not something that you see in real life,” she says. A 2018 Tony nominee this year, Kilgore made her Broadway dreams come true earlier than she ever could have imagined. “I grew up in a small town and my parents were very realistic about the fact that there are not many leading lady roles for young African-american women. I don’t take anything for granted.” Kilgore aspires to do a major motion picture one day, perhaps for the House of Mouse. “The biggest thing I want to do is be a Disney princess. That would be the ideal.”