Chloe Auliʻi Cravalho (pronounced ow-LEE-ee krə-VAHL-yoh) is an American actress born on November 22, 2000. She started acting at 16, voicing the main character in Disney’s animated movie “Moana” (2016). She also starred in the NBC series “Rise” (2018), Netflix’s “All Together Now” (2020), the comedy “Darby and the Dead” (2022), Amazon’s sci-fi series “The Power” (2023), the Disney Channel series “Hailey’s On It!”, and the 2024 film version of the musical “Mean Girls.”
Cravalho was born in Kohala, Hawaii, and is of Chinese, Native Hawaiian, Puerto Rican, Portuguese, and Irish descent. When she got her big break, she was living in Mililani, Hawaii, with her mother and attending high school. She sang in the glee club at Kamehameha Schools’ Kapālama campus.
In June 2021, Cravalho announced she was accepted into Columbia University and planned to study environmental science.
Cravalho played the main character in the 2016 animated movie “Moana.” She almost didn’t audition for the role, but a talent agent saw her in a charity video contest and brought her to Los Angeles to try out. She was the last person to audition out of hundreds.
In 2017, she was cast in the NBC drama “Rise,” which premiered in 2018 but was canceled after one season. She sang the national anthem at the National Memorial Day Concert in 2017. Cravalho also voiced Moana in the first Hawaiian language-dubbed Disney film, which premiered in June 2018.
On November 5, 2019, she played Ariel in ABC’s live-action concert of “The Little Mermaid.” In 2020, she starred in the Netflix film “All Together Now.” She has performed as a guest narrator at Disney’s Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World twice, in 2018 and 2021.
In 2020, Cravalho participated in “Acting for a Cause,” performing in classic play readings to raise money for charity. She played various roles in these readings.
On November 18, 2021, it was announced that she would voice the main character in the animated series “Hailey’s On It!,” which premiered in June 2023. She also stars in the sci-fi series “The Power” and the 2024 film “Mean Girls.”
In 2023, it was announced that Cravalho would be an executive producer for the live-action adaptation of “Moana” but would not reprise her role, wanting to pass it to another young Pacific Islander actress.
In April 2020, Cravalho came out as bisexual. In January 2024, she revealed she has Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, she signed a letter to President Joe Biden calling for a ceasefire.