---
name: "Halle Bailey"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/halle-bailey"
fi1m_id: "halle-bailey"
imdb_id: "nm1782991"
tmdb_id: 1735828
wikidata_id: "Q65028269"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 March 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T03:15:09.855670+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Halle Bailey

## Identity

Halle Bailey

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/halle-bailey
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** halle-bailey
- **IMDb ID:** nm1782991
- **TMDB ID:** 1735828
- **Wikidata ID:** Q65028269
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_Bailey, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65028269, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1782991/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1735828

Actor. Born 27 March 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 March 2000, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Also known as:** Halle Lynn Bailey, Halle
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 63 (1), 2020s 70 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 75 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $639m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_Bailey, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65028269, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1782991/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1735828

## Coming up

- *The Debut* (2026-12-10), as Stef — [page](https://film.one/film/the-debut.md)
- *Groove Tails* (2027-08-19), as (voice)

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Color Purple*](https://film.one/film/the-color-purple-2023.md) (73)
- **Disney+:** [*The Little Mermaid*](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Halle Bailey

> Halle Bailey sings 'Part of Your World' as a plea rather than a wish, and for four minutes of *The Little Mermaid* she carries a film that does not otherwise deserve her. Her films have not yet asked what she can do without a song.

Watch Halle Bailey's Ariel in the moments before she sings. The chin is up, the eyes are wide, and she looks at the hull of the ship above her as though it already belonged to her. It is the posture of a teenager who has decided the world is elsewhere and will not be talked out of it, and Bailey holds it through long stretches of Rob Marshall's *The Little Mermaid* (2023) in which she has nothing to say. Then Alan Menken's old melody starts and the posture becomes a voice. She sings 'Part of Your World' as a plea rather than a wish, and we were moved far more than we expected to be by a song we have heard in every school hall in the country. It is the only sequence in that film better than the cartoon.

The voice came first, which explains a good deal. Bailey and her sister Chlöe began as a cover duo on YouTube, Chloe x Halle, were signed to Beyoncé's Parkwood label around 2015 and toured with her, and the acting has run alongside the records ever since: four years as Sky Forster in *Grown-ish* (2018–2022), then Ariel, her first film lead. The films since have kept her close to a song. She was young Nettie in *The Color Purple* (2023), Anna opposite Regé-Jean Page in *You, Me & Tuscany* (2026), and Stef in Jesse Eisenberg's *The Debut* (2026), a comedy about a community theatre musical. Three musicals in four years is a pattern, and it is the industry's pattern rather than hers.

So what we know is what she does when she sings and what she does while waiting to. The first is settled. The second is the more interesting question, and nobody has properly put it to her. *The Little Mermaid* is murky under the water and afraid to change anything, and in the scenes where Ariel has no lines Bailey does the film's best acting with her eyes and a few gestures; we wrote at the time that she deserved a film built around what she can do rather than around what someone else once drew. *The Debut* is a better film, and it is not hers. It belongs to Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, whose rows are the funniest thing in it, and Bailey is one of the company Eisenberg gathers round them, alongside K. Todd Freeman, Colton Ryan, Bonnie Milligan and Bernadette Peters. We did not leave talking about her, and we do not think we were meant to.

She has said of Ariel, "She knew where she wanted to go, and she wasn't going to let anybody stop her," and that is also the only kind of part she has been offered: the girl who wants out. It suits her. It is also the easy thing to cast a singer as, because the wanting can always be handed to the song. Somebody should give her a part with no music in it and a reason to stand still. We suspect she would be good, and we would like to stop having to suspect.

## Biography

Halle Bailey is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She first came to prominence as one half of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle with her sister Chloe Bailey. The pair released the albums *The Kids Are Alright* (2018) and *Ungodly Hour* (2020), and received five Grammy Award nominations together.

Bailey has acted in the television series *Grown-ish* (2018–2022) as Sky Forster. Her film roles include a supporting part in *Last Holiday* (2006) and Young Nettie in *The Color Purple* (2023). She starred as Ariel in Disney's *The Little Mermaid* (2023).

*Sources: imdb.com, britannica.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (3) — the average rests on these

- *The Debut* (2026), Fi1m 78, as Stef — [page](https://film.one/film/the-debut.md)
- *The Color Purple* (2023), Fi1m 73, as Young Nettie — [page](https://film.one/film/the-color-purple-2023.md)
- *The Little Mermaid* (2023), Fi1m 58, as Ariel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Quincy* (2018), Fi1m 63, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/quincy.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Groove Tails* (2027), as (voice)
- *The Debut* (2026), as Stef — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-debut.md)
- *The Crystal Planet* (2026), as Songs
- *You, Me & Tuscany* (2026), as Anna
- *The Line* (2024), as Annabelle Bascom
- *The Color Purple* (2023), as Young Nettie, Songs — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-color-purple-2023.md)
- *The Little Mermaid* (2023), as Ariel — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid.md)
- *The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder* (2022), series, as Songs
- *The Kids Are Alright* (2018), Actor
- *A Wrinkle in Time* (2018), as Songs
- *grown-ish* (2018), series, as Sky Forster
- *Let It Shine* (2012), as Choir Girl #1
- *Last Holiday* (2006), as Tina
- *Golden*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Halle Bailey](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-0087afc74049.jpg) Halle Bailey — [1], CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Halle_Bailey_in_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Chloe x Halle on a talk show in November 2018](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-5055f9cdddeb.png) Chloe x Halle on a talk show in November 2018 — Sister Circle TV, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Chloe_x_Halle_Nov_2018.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Chloe x Halle in 2018](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-c1a002d0daae.png) Chloe x Halle in 2018 — [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuw6G0wwo_BmP9EmpEFVO1w 

HOTSPOTATL], CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/ChloexHalle2018.png/1280px-ChloexHalle2018.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Chloe x Halle in 2018](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-868884330941.png) Chloe x Halle in 2018 — HOTSPOTATL, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/ChloexHalle2018_%28cropped%29.png/1280px-ChloexHalle2018_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Halle Bailey](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-8b3bcb865c9c.jpg) Halle Bailey — Image via TMDB
- ![Halle Bailey](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-1b1a7e8927f4.jpg) Halle Bailey — Image via TMDB
- ![Halle Bailey](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-fa90a1da201b.jpg) Halle Bailey — Image via TMDB
- ![Halle Bailey in 2018](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-73f83ca77aae.png) Halle Bailey in 2018 — [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuw6G0wwo_BmP9EmpEFVO1w 

HOTSPOTATL], CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Halle_Bailey_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Singer and actress Halle Bailey reads “Hair Love” at the Reading Nook during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, Monday, April 10, 2023, on the South Lawn o](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-0ef8e693a79b.jpg) Singer and actress Halle Bailey reads “Hair Love” at the Reading Nook during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, Monday, April 10, 2023, on the South Lawn o — The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Halle_Bailey_White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll_2023_%28crop%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Halle Bailey](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-9f8ac38e828c.jpg) Halle Bailey — Image via TMDB
- ![Halle Bailey](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-94a6770c75cf.jpg) Halle Bailey — Image via TMDB
- ![Halle Bailey](https://film.one/media/person/17753/gallery-5857ac945397.jpg) Halle Bailey — Image via TMDB

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