Sweet Sarah Hyland

Sarah Hyland might seem like a new kid on the block with sparkly eyes that adorn her young appearance but this petite young lady is one-short-candle away from entering the big THREE-O.

- Jennifer F. Netto

Sarah Hyland is America’s sweetheart, but life has taken quite the twist and-turn on her off-screen presence.

Early Years to Stardom

Hyland was born in Manhattan on the 24th of November 1990, to parents Edward James and Melissa Canaday who were no strangers in the acting world. Like most children of Hollywood celebrities, Hyland’s fame came early. She was only seven when she first landed her acting gig for the film Private Parts. But this alumna of the Professional Performing Arts School of New York went on to act in even bigger roles in the movies Annie and Blind Date.

However, her popularity soared when she took on the role of Haley Dunphy in ABC’s longest running, Emmy-award winning comedy, Modern Family. The show was recently renewed for its 11th and final season in January this year. To date, Hyland has acted in close to twenty films of which she was Executive Producer of a few, thirty-odd television shows, and six music videos, and has a net worth of 9 million on her name. She has won the Screen Actors Guild Award, Teen Choice Awards, Critics Choice Television Award, and Glamour Awards between 2011 and 2014 as Haley in Modern Family.

The Tender Road

While her fame as an actress started when she was young, the pain of dealing with kidney dysplasia began at birth for her. Hyland’s kidneys did not develop properly in her mother’s womb and they never functioned well. Kidney dysplasia, which is sometimes called multicystic dysplastic kidney, is a condition that occurs in the womb when one or both of a baby’s kidneys does not develop correctly and fluid-filled sacs (cysts) grow in place of normal tissue. It is the most common type of pediatric renal cystic disease, occurring in approximately 1 of every 4,300 live births, according to Children’s Hospital Boston.