Chloe Aulii Cravalho was born on November 22, 2000 , and an accomplished actress from the United States. Her journey in acting started at the age of sixteen, providing the voice the title character in the hit Disney film Moana. Following her debut , she went on to star in the NBC drama series Rise, the Netflix drama film All Together Now, the supernatural comedy Darby and the Dead, the Amazon Prime Video sci-fi series The Power, the Disney Channel animated series Hailey's On It, and the 2024 film adaptation of the Mean Girls musical. Early Life and Education Spintax Cravalho was born in Kohala, Hawaii , whose background is rooted in Chinese , Hawaiian, Puerto Rican, Portuguese, and Irish ancestry . When she gained recognition, she resided with her mother in Mililani, Hawaii, and was in her first year of high school . She sang soprano in the glee club at Kamehameha Schools Kapalama campus. In mid-2021, Cravalho shared that she had been admitted to Columbia University and stated her plans to study environmental science.