Madison Lilly Bailey is an American actress, singer, and model best known for her breakout role as Kiara "Kie" Carrera in the Netflix hit series Outer Banks.

🎂 Age and Early Life

Born on January 29, 1999, in Kernersville, North Carolina, Madison is 27 years old. She spent her childhood and teen years in North Carolina before moving to Los Angeles to professionally pursue acting. Initially, she dreamed of becoming a professional singer but transitioned to acting and modeling around age 15 after developing severe stage fright.

🧬 Ethnicity & Background

Madison is of Mauritian and Italian descent. Adopted as an infant, she grew up in a transracial family and has been vocal about the unique experience of being a mixed-race individual raised in a predominantly white household and geographic community.

🧠 Personality

Madison describes herself as transparent, genuine, and highly adaptable. Her peers and fans frequently note her vulnerable and "offbeat" charm.

• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Madison was diagnosed with BPD at age 17 after experiencing severe anxiety and lifelong panic attacks. She openly advocates for mental health awareness to break down the stigmas surrounding the condition. She views her BPD as a source of her broad personality, noting that it makes her highly empathetic and uniquely capable of connecting deeply with different kinds of people.

• Astrology: She is an Aquarius sun with a Cancer moon. She identifies with the eccentric, "weird" traits of an Aquarius while attributing her deep emotional intuition to her Cancer moon.

✨ Beliefs, Quirks & Habits

• Spiritual Wellness: She heavily relies on meditation and crystals to ground herself.

• Advocacy: She is a passionate, public advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and the Black Lives Matter movement. She identifies as pansexual.

• Food Habits: She is a self-proclaimed pasta lover, admitting to eating pasta almost every single day or every other day (with vodka pasta being a favorite). For dessert, she strictly prefers crème brûlée.

• Fears and Dislikes: She is afraid of heights and strongly dislikes riding bicycles. She also admits that she never learned how to hula hoop.

• Future Dreams: An avid horse rider, she hopes to step away from the city one day and own her own farm.

🏡 Family Structure

Madison comes from a large, tight-knit foster and adoptive family.

• Parents: She was raised by her adoptive parents, Alex and Katherine Bailey. Sadly, her mother passed away in 2018. To honor her memory, Madison and two of her sisters got matching memorial tattoos.

• Siblings: She is the youngest of seven children. Her parents had one biological child and fostered many children over the years, ultimately adopting six of them (including Madison). She has three older brothers and three older sisters.

• Stunt Double Sister: Her sister, Katie Bailey, has a background in gymnastics and actively serves as Madison’s professional stunt double on the set of Outer Banks.