Introducing our winter cover star and certified TODAY bestie, Madelyn Cline ⭐ 📝: lizcalvario 📸: Maggie Shannon
adelyn Cline feels like a friend — my friend, your friend, the internet’s friend. A really, really cool friend.
The combination of a missing-person mystery, class clashes and a “West Side Story”-esque romance made the series an instant hit. But it was Cline’s on-screen charm and depiction of Sarah’s courage and fierce loyalty — plus a signature pout and perfectly tousled beach hair — that instantly made her the series’ breakout star.
Fame came fast for this 25-year-old who, it’s safe to say, has quickly become Hollywood's It Girl. Before “Outer Banks,” she guest-starred on “The Vampire Diaries” spinoff “The Originals” and Netflix’s other prized hit “Stranger Things,” in addition to sharing the screen with Nicole Kidman in the 2018 film “Boy Erased.
When she took an interest in acting and modeling, Cline’s parents were on board, excited to see their daughter break out of her shell. They also saw it as an investment in her future, a way for her to save money for college. But Cline’s time at Coastal Carolina University was brief, before she dropped out to move to Los Angeles and pursue acting full time. The following years proved to be fruitful, but they also came with sacrifices.
“We had a working relationship before we had a personal relationship, and our job from day one has always been to leave the show better than we found it,” Cline told EW. “I realized there are parts of my life that only me or one other person are entitled to. I prefer it that way. It also just makes things more special. That’s usually how relationships are.”Hard-earned lessons about relationships aside, Cline describes her life as “truly a dream.” With a scroll through her Instagram — followed by more than 13.6 million people — it certainly appears that way; her posts feature her on red carpets and gracing magazine covers.
She adds: “The main goal is staying healthy. And healthy doesn’t necessarily always look like eating kale. It just means you’re feeding your body, and you’re giving your body what it needs. My journey with my body got a lot healthier when I started to acknowledge and be thankful for what it puts me through.”At 25, one might argue that Cline’s journey is just beginning. Here she is, on the precipice of becoming a bonafide household name.
“It is gratifying when you see and read scripts that come through,” she says. “I am so excited that I’m even being considered, just to even be in the conversation.”
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