1 : Hilary Duff
2 : Early Career
3 : Acting Career success
4 : Musical career
5 : Personal life and trivia
6 : Acting Roles
7 : Discography
8 : External links
Hilary Ann Lisa Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an US actress and pop music singer.
Early Career
Hilary Duff was born in Houston, Texas and who started her career at the age of six in the Nutcracker Suite with Columbus Ballet Met in San Antonio, Texas with her older sister ballet dancer Haylie Duff. She decided to pursue an acting career and appeared in some television commercials.
Her first part was in the TV mini-series True Women in 1996. She appeared as the star of the 1998 video Casper meets Wendy as the young witch Wendy with the animated character Casper the Friendly Ghost. Her reputation was further enhanced by her appearance as Ellie in the TV Movie The Soul Collector in the 1999 winning a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot (Supporting Young Actress).
Acting Career success
Duff's career breakthrough was as the star of the successful Disney Channel show Lizzie McGuire in 2001. Her appearance in this role as a typical teenager led to appearances on the covers of teen magazines and become highly popular among children commonly called "tweens", i.e. those between the ages of 7 and 14. Duff announced in 2003 that she will not act in the Lizzie McGuire show anymore due to a contract dispute with Disney. While she was getting paid $15,000 an episode to appear on the program, by 2003 she was receiving millions of dollars to act in movies.
Following her success in Lizzie McGuire she received offers to appear in movies. Her first movie role was in Human Nature an independent US/French coproduction released in 2001. She starred in television movie Cadet Kelly with Christy Carson Romero and Gary Cole. Her first hit movie was Agent Cody Banks with Frankie Muniz in the title role in 2003. Duff then reprised the role of Lizzie McGuire in the The Lizzie McGuire Movie which was her first million dollar movie role. Her final role of 2003 was costarring in the Disney film Cheaper by the Dozen with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt. Her success as a singer led to her being rated as number 96 in the Forbes Top 100 Celebrity List.
In 2004 she appeared in A Cinderella Story, alongside Chad Michael Murray with a salary of $2 million. As at May 2004, forthcoming roles included Heart of Summer, The Perfect Man and Outward Blonde (2005).
Musical career
Duff's first recorded singing performance was on the song I Can't Wait which appeared on the Lizzie McGuire Original Television Soundtrack in 2002. She would also sing on several tracks on the soundtrack to The Lizzie McGuire Movie in 2003. One of these tracks "Why Not" was released as a single reaching the top 20 in Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
Her first album was a 2002 collection of Christmas songs called Santa Clause Lane which made the lower reaches of the Billboard 200 album chart and number 3 on the kids music chart in 2002. The title track also featured on the soundtrack to The Santa Clause 2 starring Tim Allen.
In 2003 she recorded her first album entitled Metamorphosis which was released on August 26, 2003 and went to number one of the US and Canadian charts in that year. The Metamorphasis album featured music that would appeal to teenagers as well as the tweens who had supported her to date. The Matrix who had worked with singers such as Avril Lavigne on her Let Go album and Liz Phair provided three songs on the album. One of these songs So Yesterday was released as the first single reaching number 2 in Canada, top 40 in Australia and just ouside the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
Subsequent singles from the album include:
- "Come Clean" reached the top 10 in Canada, top 20 in Australia and New Zealand and top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100; and
- "Little Voice" reached the Australian Top 40 in May 2004.
Metamorphosis was nominated in the Juno Awards of 2004 for "International Album of the Year" losing to 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
On May 31, 2004, a video of her cover version of "Our Lips are Sealed" by the Go-Gos with her sister Haylie Duff made its MTV debut. The song is from the soundtrack of The Cinderella Story [1].
Personal life and trivia
Hilary Duff has dated singer Aaron Carter, brother of The Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter. There were reports that she had tried to have fellow teen actress Lindsay Lohan banned from the preview of Cheaper by the Dozen because Lohan had previously been dating Carter in late 2003. She has most recently (2004) been romantically linked to Jordan Masterson, younger brother of Danny Masterson and Chris Masterson.
Duff is involved with many charity groups, is an animal rights enthusiast, and a member of "Kids With a Cause". She gets up at 4.30am to allow her to study as well as pursue her acting and singing career. One of her nicknames is "Juicy". Other nicknames include Hil, Hilly and Hils
Hilary Duff lauched a clothing range Stuff on March 12, 2004 with clothes distributed through Target.
Acting Roles
Discography
As of 2004, Hilary Duff has released two albums:
As well, she has several tracks on the Lizzie McGuire film and TV soundtracks.
External links
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