Kyliegh Curran

About

Kyliegh Curran (born December 10, 2005) is an American actress. She starred in the horror film Doctor Sleep and played Harper on the Disney Channel mystery series Secrets of Sulphur Springs. She previously played young Nala in a Broadway production of The Lion King.

Curran was born in Miami, Florida on December 10, 2005. Her maternal grandfather is the Bahamian-American writer and scholar Whittington B. Johnson.
She started taking acting classes at seven years old. She moved to New York City for her career. Through first and second grades, Curran practiced theater at an Actors’ Playhouse conservatory close to the Broadway theatre area. Curran, not finding film-related opportunities in Miami and New York, started attending the British Academy of Performing Arts in Marietta, Georgia and the Renaissance International School of Performing Arts in Milton, Georgia. As part of growing up with an acting career, she is homeschooled.

Curran’s first show was Madeline’s Christmas in Coral Gables, Florida. When she was 10 years old, she was cast as Young Nala in Julie Taymor’s Broadway production of The Lion King. In 2015, she was cast in her first film…