Karen Lucille Hale (born June 14, 1989) is an American actress and singer. Early in her career, she was sometimes referred to as Lucy Kate Hale. She is best known for her role as Aria Montgomery on the Freeform series Pretty Little Liars. Some other notable roles played by Hale include Becca Sommers in Bionic Woman, Rose Baker in Privileged and Stella Abbott in Life Sentence.

Hale is also a singer when she first came to prominence as one of the five winners of the reality show American Juniors, a children's spin off of American Idol and released her debut studio album Road Between.