Sarah Jane Hyland (born November 24, 1990) is an American actress. Born in Manhattan, she attended the Professional Performing Arts School, followed by small roles in the films Private Parts (1997), Annie (1999), and Blind Date (2007) Hyland is popularly known for playing the character of Haley Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family, for which she has received critical acclaim and numerous accolades and nominations, sharing four Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with her cast members and garnering a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Hyland is also known for her roles in the films Geek Charming (2011), Struck by Lightning (2012), Scary Movie 5 (2013), Vampire Academy (2014), See You in Valhalla (2015), XOXO (2016) and Dirty Dancing (2017). Hyland dated her Geek Charming co-star Matt Prokop for several years after meeting in 2010. In August 2014, Hyland obtained a domestic violence temporary restraining order against Prokop for physically and verbally abusing her for throughout the four years of their relationship. In October, the restraining order became permanent. Hyland was in a relationship with actor Dominic Sherwood in February 2015, when they met on the set of Vampire Academy. The relationship ended in 2017. Hyland is currently dating The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise alum Wells Adams, first reported in November 2017. As of December 2018, they have lived together in Los Angeles since August 2018. In December 2018, Hyland said in a Self magazine article that she had contemplated suicide because she felt she was a burden on her family and that she blamed herself for her body rejecting her father's kidney. Since birth she has undergone 16 surgeries to improve her health, including numerous kidney surgeries and a laparoscopic surgery to treat her endometriosis.
