Megan Hilty

Stage and television actress/singer Megan Hilty is best known for her turns on Broadway as Glinda in Wicked and Doralee Rhodes in 9 to 5: The Musical, and -- most notably -- for her role as Ivy Lynn on NBC's Smash, a musical-within-a-musical that followed the development of a Broadway production about Marilyn Monroe. One of the songs she and co-star Katharine McPhee performed, "Let Me Be Your Star," was nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy in 2012. Early in 2013, Smash's second season premiered, and Hilty's debut album It Happens All the Time -- which featured songs by written Damien Rice, Ne-Yo, and Carrie Underwood -- arrived shortly after. ~ Heather Phares