Madison Bailey

Madison Bailey is an actress best known for her role as Kiara Carrera on the Netflix teen drama series Outer Banks. Since the show debuted in 2020, Bailey has played a core member of the Pogues, filming in South Carolina alongside a cast that includes Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Jonathan Daviss, and Rudy Pankow.

During production of the series, Bailey performed extensive ocean scenes and physical stunts. Reports revealed that co-star Chase Stokes rescued Bailey from drowning when she was in clear distress while filming deep-water boat and diving sequences. On screen, her character Kiara deals with intense storylines, including mourning her boyfriend JJ Maybank following his tragic death in Morocco at the end of the fourth season.

Off screen, Bailey is openly pansexual and has shared her reflections on the show as it wrapped its fifth and final season. She called out the series for its overall lack of LGBTQ+ storylines across five seasons, expressing that she had personally hoped her character Kiara might be depicted as queer.