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Bailey Noel Hanks (born February 6, 1988) is an American singer, actress, and dancer best known for winning MTV's Legally Blonde: The Musical – The Search for Elle Woods. She performed on Broadway as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde: The Musical in 2008.
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- Recording so much better with bailey hanks
- Early life and career
- Career
- Personal life
- Stage
- Television
- Film
- References
Recording so much better with bailey hanks
Early life and career
Hanks was born on February 6, 1988 in Anderson, South Carolina, to Brad and Angie Hanks. She has one older sister, Brooke, and one younger sister, Bradlee. Her father is a pastor and youth minister in addition to being a highway patrolman, while her mother is a nurse. Hanks attended Westside High School in Anderson. She transferred to and graduated from Pendleton High School in 2006.
Hanks performed the National Anthem for president Bill Clinton in 2000, at age 12.
Growing up in the local theater, her notable appearances were as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz; Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical the Musical; Elle Woods in Legally Blonde; Baby June in Gypsy; Hello, Dolly!; Music Man; A Year With Frog and Toad; Annie; Bye Bye Birdie; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; and High Steppin' Country. Bailey studied under Sarah Reese, an esteemed former opera singer.
Bailey was also crowned Miss Liberty Teen 2005, and competed in the Miss SC Teen Pageant.
She attended Tri-County Technical College in Pendleton, SC, as well as Coastal Carolina University, where she was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, though she did not graduate.
Career
Hanks starred as Sharpay Evans in a production of High School Musical which ran from November 5 to December 7, 2008 at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
Hanks appeared in the daytime television soap opera Guiding Light in April 2009.
Bailey played the part of the NYU Tour Guide in the third installment of Touchstone Pictures' "Step Up" franchise. The film, titled Step Up 3D, premiered in August 2010.
In 2012, Hanks tweeted out a photo of her lunch at Chick-fil-A, which some interpreted as a statement of support for the chain's anti-gay marriage stance. Some fellow Broadway performers condemned her action, including John Carroll, who wrote an opinion piece in The Advocate critical of Hanks with the title "Gays Giveth and Gays Taketh Away".
Personal life
Hanks currently resides in Piedmont, South Carolina.
On March 15, 2014 she married Jason Weidman in Central, SC, and then honeymooned at the tropical Barceló Punta Cana Resort in the Dominican Republic.