Madison Bailey

CTL-E-5833 · Person · other · 1999–present

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Combined Graph record U-07089 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5833.

Madison Bailey, born Madison Lilly Bailey on 29 January 1999 in Kernersville, North Carolina, is an American actress who identifies, in her own words, as a biracial Black woman. Adopted as a child and raised in Kernersville by her adoptive family, she is of Mauritian and Italian descent and has spoken about growing up in a predominantly white household and community. She first reached a national audience inside Black television canon, playing the metahuman Wendy Hernandez across two seasons of the CW's Black Lightning, before breaking out as Kiara "Kie" Carrera, the conscience of the Pogues, in Netflix's Outer Banks (2020– ). In October 2025 she headlined the Prime Video romantic comedy Maintenance Required, speaking in interviews about choosing projects that let her tell the stories inside her own intersection — Black, queer, and a woman.

The record

• Also known as: Madison Lilly Bailey

Notes

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Sources

• Refinery29, "Madison Bailey On Life After Outer Banks & New Rom-Com" (October 2025) — Bailey on her identity in her own words ("I'm a woman, I'm Black, I'm queer") and on choosing projects; Maintenance Required streaming on Prime Video from 8 October 2025 — https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2025/10/11937209/madison-bailey-maintenance-required-rom-com-outer-banks-final-season-interview (primary source · build store)
• TheWrap, "Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Madison Bailey on the Importance of Positivity in Queer Representation" (2020) — Bailey of Outer Banks and Black Lightning on representation and "the struggles of being Black" — http://www.thewrap.com/maisie-richardson-sellers-madison-bailey-queer-representation-be-conference-2020-video/ (build store)
• The List, "The Untold Truth Of Madison Bailey" — adopted with five siblings through foster care, raised in Kernersville, North Carolina; began as a singer before acting — https://www.thelist.com/584124/the-untold-truth-of-madison-bailey/ (build store)
• Madelyn Cline Wiki (Fandom), "Madison Bailey" — born Madison Lilly Bailey, 29 January 1999, Kernersville, North Carolina; of Mauritian and Italian descent; Wendy Hernandez in Black Lightning for two seasons from 2018; Kiara Carrera in Outer Banks (vitals leg — fan-wiki grade, flagged for replacement at enrichment) — https://madelyn-cline.fandom.com/wiki/Madison_Bailey (build store)

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