The world knows her as the vacuous Dunphy daughter Haley in Modern Family (in which real-life boyfriend Matt Prokop has been cast) but 21-year-old Sarah Hyland has worked with everyone from Jennifer Aniston to Adam Sandler.

Coming soon: a starring role in Struck by Lightning, a film written by Chris Colfer from Glee. But first, her Disney Channel movie Geek Charming.

>> You’ve been working since you were about zero years old.
Since about like five.

>> Your parents are in the industry so they wouldn’t have been upset that you wanted to become an actor and face the disappointments that come with that, would they?
When I first started they didn’t really like me doing it, because they knew the trials and tribulations and the rejection, and they didn’t want a child to go through that. But I kind of forced them into it. So it worked out.

>> Geek Charming is so cute, and how exciting to have been able to make it with your boyfriend.
I had such fun. Even though it’s a Disney Channel movie, I feel like it’s really different. I haven’t seen a Disney Channel movie like this since Tru Confessions with Shia LaBeouf . It’s a lot deeper (but) when you’re in a Disney Channel movie your dress has to be a certain length, it can’t go past your fingertips.

>> Are you joking?
No I’m not joking. So at all the fittings I had to put my arms down and if the dress was shorter than the end of my fingertips then I couldn’t wear it. So I feel like if the dresses were shortened a little bit … I feel like with the tiniest adjustments to the movie it could’ve been a movie released in theatres.

>> Who’s going to be upset by a short skirt?
It was weird because we were filming the movie and then in between scenes they were doing some behind-the-scenes of it to air on Disney Channel, but Disney representatives were like, “You can’t wear that in the interview”, because they were spaghetti straps. Like, on the dress.

They were really tiny straps. And I was like, “What do you mean I can’t wear it?” And they were like, “They’re the same width as bra straps, so you have to put a jacket over it.”

>> Aren’t people funny.
I get it, with certain things, because it’s a kids’ channel and a kids’ movie, but I don’t understand spaghetti straps.

>> Have you had different offers since the success of Modern Family?
Modern Family has definitely opened up a lot of doors and I will always be grateful. And it’s funny, the roles I’m playing more often now and that people are thinking of me for, it’s more like the stupid party girl, bitchy roles and stuff.

So it’s kind of funny what one role can do for you. It opens so many doors but those doors are all leading to that character you’re already playing.

>> How much more of Modern Family do you want to do?
I’m willing to ride it out until the end… for as long as it goes.

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Earlier this evening, Sarah Hyland walked the red carpet at the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Sarah was wearing a mauve Alberta Ferretti draped dress – check out a preview of her at the event below!

“Modern Family’s” charmingly ditzy Haley Dunphy (Sarah Hyland) hasn’t exactly been lucky in love — her last boyfriend, Dylan, decided to stay in Wyoming after she invited him on a family vacation to a dude ranch.

Now, things may be looking up for Haley. Sources reveal exclusively to Zap2it that Hyland’s real-life boyfriend, Matt Prokop, has just been cast as Haley’s latest love interest.

Prokop and Hyland met at the casting call for Disney’s “High School Musical 3.” He won the role of Jimmie Zara, but Hyland didn’t get the gig — she did, however, get the guy.

Since then, Prokop and Hyland have co-starred in two projects. In “Conception,” they played a couple who conceived a baby the night they lost their virginity. Most recently they appeared in Disney’s “Geek Charming,” a “Can’t Buy Me Love” type rom-com in which she played the popular high school girl who is ultimately won over by his nerdy character.

Both actors can also be seen in Chris Colfer’s upcoming film “Struck By Lightning.”

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The first trailer for indie comedy Struck by Lightning, written by and starring Golden Globe winning Glee star Chris Colfer, directed by Brian Dannelly of Saved!, has arrived!

The film is about a high school kid who recounts the way he blackmailed his classmates into contributing to his literary magazine. The cast includes Sarah Hyland, Dermot Mulroney, Christina Hendricks, Rebel Wilson and Allison Janney.

This week, Sarah Hyland was photographed on the set of a photo shoot for the new “OP” Campaign! She will be appearing in the ads with Ashley Tisdale, Austin Stowell and Matt Lanter.

Check out this new scoop from Keck’s Exclusives! I think it would be a great episode if it happens!

Following their trips to Hawaii and a dude ranch, Modern Family’s next family outing will take the whole Pritchett/Dunphy/Delgado/Tucker gang to the happiest place on Earth.

Disneyland, part of the ABC/Disney family, is being eyed as a shooting location for an episode to air during May sweeps. My spies also tell me the Dunphys may run in to a familiar face at the park… someone not seen in several months. Hint: Think dim-witted and musically inclined.

Excellent news for all fans of Glee and Modern Family (and really, who isn’t at this point?): Sarah Hyland (Haley Dunphy) has joined the cast of Chris Colfer’s (Kurt Hummel on Glee) first film: Struck by Lightning, which he also wrote and directed.

“I play Claire, the head cheerleader,” Sarah told E!. “She does not like Chris’ character very much…But I’m playing a cheerleader. What else are cheerleaders? They’re mean!”

It sounds like Sarah’s character in the movie isn’t all that different from her character on Modern Family — a little bitchy, the “hot girl” in high school, and dismissive of the unpopular kids.

But we’re sure filming Chris’ movie is way more fun: Sarah’s boyfriend,, Matt Prokop, plays a stoner who will “roll a joint or two,” he says, in the film. We can’t wait!

Watch an all-new Modern Family on Wednesday, February 8 at 9pm ET/PT on ABC.

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From inexperienced teens to couples battling fertility issues, Josh Stolberg’s “Conception” follows nine couples as they embark on the road to parenthood.

From the trailer, it seems the ensemble cast — full of TV stars including “American Horror Story’s” Connie Britton, “Modern Family’s” Julie Bowen and Sarah Hyland, and “The League’s” Jason Mantzoukas — is full of awkward sex and little kids making remarks about knowing where babies come from.

An ensemble cast worked with Richard Curtis’ “Love Actually” and flopped with Garry Marshall’s “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Eve,” but regardless of the character development and overall quality of the film, the “Conception” cast will make it February’s must-see for anyone looking for a star-studded flick.

“Conception” hits On Demand and iTunes on February 24th.

The cast celebrates their big win for TV Comedy Series. Hear why their second win is even sweeter and why they just can’t get enough of each other.

Great news! The cast of “Modern Family” has just won the “Outstanding Ensemble, Comedy Series” award at the 2012 Screen Actors’ Guild Awards!