Auliʻi Cravalho

Auliʻi Cravalho
Chloe Auliʻi Cravalho (born November 22, 2000) is an American actress and singer. She made her acting debut as the voice of the title character in the Disney animated musical film Moana (2016). She went on to star in the NBC drama series Rise (2018), the Netflix drama film All Together Now (2020) and the Hulu romantic comedy Crush (2022) and supernatural comedy Darby and the Dead (2022), the Amazon Prime Video sci-fi series The Power (2023), and the Paramount film adaptation of Mean Girls based on the stage musical of the same name. She also voices Hailey Banks in the Disney Channel animated television series Hailey's On It! and will voice Meeka in the upcoming video game Ark 2.
Early life and education
Cravalho was born in Kohala, Hawaii, to Cathleen Puanani Cravalho and Dwayne Cravalho. She is of Native Hawaiian, Puerto Rican, Portuguese, Chinese, and Irish descent. At the time she made her breakthrough, she was living in Mililani, Hawaii, with her mother and was in her first year of high school, singing soprano in the glee club at Kamehameha Schools' Kapālama campus.
In June 2021, Cravalho announced that she had been accepted into Columbia University and subsequently revealed that she planned to major in environmental science at the school.
Career
Cravalho has stated that she was initially not going to audition for Moana because "there were already so many great submissions that I didn't think I needed to try out". However, an Oahu talent agent discovered her through a charity video contest and brought her to Los Angeles to audition for the role. Casting director Rachel Sutton has stated that Cravalho was the last person to audition out of hundreds of actresses.
In February 2017, it was announced that she had been cast in the pilot for the NBC drama Rise, which was ordered to series on May 4, 2017. The series premiered on March 13, 2018, but NBC cancelled the series on May 15, 2018, due to low ratings.
In May 2017, she sang the national anthem at the National Memorial Day Concert.
In November 2017, Cravalho announced she was going to reprise her role as Moana in the first Hawaiian-language dubbed Disney film. The dubbed Moana premiered on June 10, 2018.
On November 5, 2019, Cravalho portrayed Ariel in ABC's The Little Mermaid Live!, a live-action concert rendition of The Little Mermaid. In 2020, she starred in All Together Now, directed by Brett Haley for Netflix.Cravalho has twice performed as guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World, in 2018 and 2021.
In 2020, Cravalho participated in Acting for a Cause, a live classic play and screenplay reading series created, directed and produced by Brando Crawford. Cravalho played Gwendolen Fairfax in The Importance of Being Earnest, Laertes in Hamlet, Lady Catherine in Pride and Prejudice, and Jeannie Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The reading raised funds for non-profit charities including Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Cravalho was cast as the title character, Hailey, in the animated comedy-adventure series Hailey's On It!, which premiered on June 8, 2023. She also has a role in the sci-fi drama series The Power, where she plays Jos Cleary-Lopez, a teenager who develops electric powers, and as Janis in Mean Girls, a 2024 film adaptation of the stage musical.
Personal life
In April 2020, Cravalho publicly came out as bisexual.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Stage
Music videos
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
2000 births
Living people
21st-century American actresses
21st-century American women singers
21st-century American LGBT people
Actresses from Hawaii
American bisexual actors
American child actresses
American child singers
American film actresses
American LGBT people of Asian descent
American people of Native Hawaiian descent
American television actresses
American voice actresses
Annie Award winners
Audiobook narrators
Bisexual actresses
Columbia University alumni
Hawaii people of Portuguese descent
Kamehameha Schools alumni
LGBT Native Hawaiians
LGBT people from Hawaii
Native Hawaiian actresses
Native Hawaiian musicians
People from Hawaii (island)
Walt Disney Records artists