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Hilary Ann Duff (born September 28, 1987), is an
United States|American actor|actress and pop music
singer. After gaining prominence in the television
program|television show Lizzie McGuire, she has
since gone onto a successful film career, with
roles in mainstream pictures such as Cheaper by
the Dozen (2003 film)|Cheaper by the Dozen and
independent films such as Material Girls.

==Early life and career== 
Duff was born in Houston, Texas the second child
of Bob Duff, owner of a chain of convenience
store|convenience stores, and his wife Susan, a
homemaker. After her mother encouraged her to take
an acting class alongside her older sister, Haylie
Duff, both girls won parts in various local
theatre productions. At the age of six, the Duffs
participated in the ballet The Nutcracker|The
Nutcracker Suite with Columbus Ballet Met in San
Antonio, Texas|San Antonio. The siblings became
more and more enthusiastic about the idea of
acting professionally, and they eventually
relocated to California with their mother. Bob
Duff stayed at the family home in Houston to
maintain their business. Through years of
auditions and meetings, both sisters managed to
clinch appearances in several television
commercial|television commercials. She has
recently had veneers attached to her
teeth.ref|EarlyLifeCareer

==Acting==

Most of Duff's first few acting roles were small,
starting off with an uncredited appearance in
Hallmark Entertainment's TV Western|western
miniseries True Women (1997 in television|1997),
an adaptation of the novel by Janice Woods Windle.
She also served as an extra, again uncredited, in
screenwriter|writer and film director|director
Willard Carroll's comedy film|comedy drama
film|drama Playing by Heart (1998), whose ensemble
cast included Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery and
Angelina Jolie, star of True Women from the
previous year.

Her first major part was as the star of the 1998
in film|1998 film Casper Meets Wendy, playing the
young witch Wendy who encounters the animated
character Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper. Like
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997 in film|1997),
the first sequel to the hugely successful Casper
(movie)|Casper (1995 in film|1995), the film went
direct-to-video with generally unenthusiastic
reviews.

Duff later appeared in a supporting role in the
television movie The Soul Collector in 1999 in
television|1999, which was based on a Kathleen
Kane novel, and starred Bruce Greenwood as an
angel who helps out a female farmer (Melissa
Gilbert) whose husband has recently died. Duff
ended up winning a Young Artist Award for Best
Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot (Supporting
Young Actress). 

Duff's first serious shot at fame came when she
was cast as one of the children in the television
pilot|pilot episode of the NBC situation
comedy|sitcom Daddio (2000 in television|2000).
Said Michael Chiklis, star of Daddio, "After
working with her the first day, I remember saying
to my wife, 'This young girl is going to be a
movie star.' She was completely at ease with
herself and comfortable in her own skin."
ref|MichaelChiklisDaddio However, before the show
had even aired, Duff was dropped from its cast
lineup, an unfortunate turn of events which made
the twelve-year-old reluctant to continue her
acting career. But her manager and mother, Susan
Duff, spurred her on, and she successfully
auditioned for the family television comedy|comedy
television program|show Lizzie McGuire just a week
later.

Lizzie McGuire, which first aired on the Disney
Channel in January 2001 in television|2001, was a
ratings hit, drawing in 2.3 million viewers per
episode ref|LizzieMcGuireRatings, and became the
career breakthrough Duff had been waiting for. Her
performance in this role as a typical teenager led
to appearances on the covers of many teen
magazine|teen magazines, and she became highly
popular among Child|children between the ages of
seven and fourteen, with Richard Huff of the New
York Daily News calling her "a 2002 version of
Annette Funicello" ref|AnnetteFunicello2002. After
fulfilling her entire sixty-five episode contract,
as well as participating in a The Lizzie McGuire
Movie|film spin-off, Disney toyed with the idea of
continuing the franchise in further movies and a
prime-time television series to be broadcast on
American Broadcasting Company|ABC, but Duff
refused the proposal. There was a dispute over the
amount of pay Duff would receive; reportedly, she
had been receiving United States dollar|$15,000
per episode, but she and her representatives,
including her mother, wanted that figure to be
raised to $100,000. Disney offered to raise it up
to $35,000 but Duff would not relent and all plans
of continuing the series were abandoned.

Duff's second role in a theatrical motion picture
was in Human Nature, an independent film released
in most countries in 2002 in film|2002 following a
good reception at the Cannes Film Festival|Cannes
and Sundance Film Festival|Sundance film
festival|film festivals. Written by Charlie
Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry, the film
follows a female natural history|naturalist,
played by Patricia Arquette, who has body hair
growing all over her body. Tim Robbins and Rhys
Ifans co-starred. Duff played the younger version
of Arquette's character.

She starred in the Disney Channel television movie
Cadet Kelly (2002 in television|2002) with Christy
Carlson Romano and Gary Cole, which became the
network's most watched program in its
nineteen-year history. ref|CadetKellyNetworkHit

Her first major role in a feature film was in
Agent Cody Banks with Frankie Muniz in 2003 in
film|2003. It was successful enough to spawn a
sequel, proving that Duff's popularity was not
limited to the small screen.

Duff then reprised the role of Lizzie McGuire in
The Lizzie McGuire Movie, which was her first
million-dollar movie role. 

She played the part of Lorraine Baker in the
Twentieth Century Fox film Cheaper by the Dozen
with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt.

In 2004 in film|2004, she appeared in the 
romantic comedy film|romantic comedy A Cinderella
Story, a twenty-first century update of Charles
Perrault's classic fairy tale Cinderella.
Comedian|Comedienne Jennifer Coolidge played the
wicked stepmother of the picture, which was
directed by Mark Rosman, a veteran of Duff's
Lizzie McGuire. Trashed upon its release in the
summer, the film nonetheless became a modest
sleeper hit, and many critics were impressed by
Duff's performance, as well as her chemistry with
co-star Chad Michael Murray, another actor popular
with teens, who plays Duff's love interest in the
film.

Later that year, she starred in the romance film
Raise Your Voice, which marked the third
collaboration between Duff and director Sean
McNamara (after Casper Meets Wendy and episodes of
Lizzie McGuire). While some critics praised Duff
for appearing in a more drama film|dramatic role
than she had previously been seen in, the film was
heavily panned, with many slating in particular
the striking similarities to the musical film Fame
(movie)|Fame (1980). Reviews were, by and large,
negative to Duff's vocals (several critics have
pointed out what appears to be her digitally
enhanced voice ref|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-1
ref|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-2
ref|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-3
ref|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-4
ref|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-5) and indifferent
towards her acting performance, although she did
receive a Golden Raspberry Awards|Razzie award
nomination for "Worst Actress" (in addition to her
work in A Cinderella Story).  The film also
received a muted reception at the Autumn|fall box
office, where it became Duff's least commercially
successful film to date.

In Duff's latest film, The Perfect Man, she plays
the eldest daughter of a divorced woman, played by
Heather Locklear, who moves to New York City as
she desperately searches for a good man to settle
down with. The movie saw Duff once again united
with director Mark Rosman.  Reviews were mostly
negative. 

Duff has recently filmed the satire|satirical
comedy Material Girls. The Martha
Coolidge-directed film, co-produced by Madonna
(entertainer)|Madonna's independent film
production company Maverick Entertainment, stars
Hilary and her real-life sister Haylie Duff as
wealthy siblings who must fight to reclaim their
fortune following a scandal ref|MaterialGirls. The
Duff sisters are also due to lend their vocal
talents to the computer animation|computer
animated comedy Foodfight!, to be distributed by
Lions Gate Films in the fall of 2006. The film's
director, Larry Kasanoff, said that he is
"absolutely thrilled to have Hilary and Haylie
Duff as part of the cast." ref|Foodfight

==Music== 

After seeing her sister perform in a band, Hilary
decided that she wanted to be the next 'Pop
princess'. Duff's first recorded singing
performance was on the song "I Can't Wait", which
appeared on the original television soundtrack for
her television show Lizzie McGuire in August 2002
in music|2002. The following month, the first
Disneymania compilation album was released,
featuring Duff in the song "The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki
Room". 

Her first album was the 2002 collection of
Christmas songs entitled Santa Claus Lane, which
included duets with Lil' Romeo and Christina
Milian. Released in October, it made the lower
reaches of the Billboard 200 album chart and #3 on
the kids' music chart, and eventually achieved
RIAA certification|gold sales in December of the
following year. The title track was also included
on the soundtrack to The Santa Clause 2.

She also sang on several tracks on the soundtrack
to The Lizzie McGuire Movie which was released in
April 2003 in music|2003, a few weeks before the
actual film came out. One of these tracks, "Why
Not", which is performed by Duff in the film, was
released as a single, and reached the Top 20 on
singles charts in countries including Australia,
New Zealand and the Netherlands.


Later that year, she recorded her first
non-holiday album, entitled Metamorphosis (Hilary
Duff album)|Metamorphosis, which was released in
August 2003 and went to #1 on the US and Canadian
charts in that year. The Metamorphosis album
featured music that would appeal to teenagers, as
well as the younger children who had supported her
to date. Songwriter|Songwriting team The Matrix
(music producer)|The Matrix, who had worked with
singers such as Avril Lavigne (on her Let Go
(Avril Lavigne album)|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 #2 in Canada, the Top 40 in
Australia and just outside the Top 40 of the
Billboard Hot 100 in the US. Duff agreed to
perform her singles "So Yesterday" and "Come
Clean" at MTV's New Year Bash 2004 in New York
City's Times Square on December 31, but when she
performed "Come Clean" the song (and the vocals)
playing over the speakers during the performance
skipped (in the same way that a Compact disc|CD
does on a malfunctioning CD player), revealing
that she had been lip synch|lip synching: during
the last seconds of "Come Clean", Duff was forced
to sing the final few words of the song.

Metamorphosis became the eighth-highest selling LP
of the year, with over 2.4 million copies
purchased in its first four months of release in
the US alone; it has since gone to sell over 3.7
million copies. Her success as a singer helped her
to be ranked #96 on the Forbes Top 100 Celebrity
List of 2003. Metamorphosis was also nominated in
the Juno Awards of 2004 for International Album of
the Year.

On May 31, 2004, the music video for her cover
version of "Our Lips are Sealed" by The Go-Gos,
which she performed with her sister Haylie Duff,
made its MTV debut ref|OurLipsAreSealedMTVDebut.
The song was commissioned for the soundtrack of
Duff's film A Cinderella Story, which came out the
following July.

On September 28, 2004 (her seventeenth birthday),
she released her second album, the self-titled
Hilary Duff (album)|Hilary Duff; it reached a peak
of #2 on the Billboard 200 and #1 in Canada. When
describing the album to her fans, Duff noted that
she felt it has an edgier, rock feel to it. The
album's working title was The Girl Can Rock. Its
first single was "Fly", and it also includes
"Haters", the lyrics of which were once rumoured
to be about Lindsay Lohan, who is often considered
by the media to be Duff's rival.
ref|HatersLyricsLohan The album has sold over 1.5
million copies in the US to date.

She accepted an invitation to perform at the youth
concert which formed part of George W. Bush's 2005
Inauguration Day celebrations.

On August 16, 2005 in music|2005, Duff will
release her third official album, Most Wanted
(Hilary Duff album)|Most Wanted, a compilation of
her most popular hits alongside three new songs.
Hilary enlisted help from boyfriend Joel Madden to
make her three new tracks edgier and more rock,
and listened to music by artists such as The
Killers and Muse for inspiration. The lead single
off the album is "Wake Up".

Drake Bell told the New Jersey newspaper, The Star
Ledger, that Duff's music is "sugar pop" and not
really popular among 18-year-old guys.  However,
he also said, "For what she's done, it's amazing. 
It definitely opens doors for me and other
artists."

Lil' John has recently reported to MTV that he is
working with Hilary Duff on a new song called
Material Girls for the soundtrack of the movie
with the same name. He also says it gives the song
a new and cool groove.

==Personal life==
Duff has dated singer Aaron Carter, brother of The
Backstreet Boys|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, as
well as other reports about a fistfight that
supposedly took place between the two actresses.
Hilary Duff was furious when she found out that
Aaron Carter had been dating her and Lindsay Lohan
at the same time.

Duff has also been reported to have dated Jordan
Masterson.

She also was involved in a celebrity feud with
Avril Lavigne. Apparently, she insulted Avril
Lavigne by saying that she didn't respect her
fans, which Lavigne disagreed with.

Duff is involved with many charity|charities, is
an animal rights enthusiast, and a member of "Kids
With a Cause." She gets up at 4.30 a.m. to allow
herself to study. Nicknames include Hil (allegedly
the most common), Hilly, Juicy Fruit, and Hils.
Her eyes are hazel-coloured and her hair is
naturally light brown, but she's been bleaching it
blonde since she was a pre-teen. Duff also has six
dogs.

Duff launched a clothing line, "Stuff By Duff" on
March 12, 2004 with clothes distributed through
Target Stores|Target in the United States and
Zellers in Canada. Playmates Toys also released a
celebrity doll|doll of Hilary that year.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1480405/20031113/
pink.jhtml?headlines=true

Her sister, Haylie Duff, has been trying to sing,
too. Hilary has helped her with duet songs
including "Our Lips Are Sealed" which have been
successful in the United States and in other
countries, including Mexico and Colombia.

Her mother, Susan Duff, is a producer, and manages
Hilary's career. Susan also co-produced A
Cinderella Story.

Hilary is currently dating Good Charlotte singer
Joel Madden. She finally cleared up all the rumors
in June 2005 by admitting they were dating, and
had been seeing each other since she was only 16.
Their first public appearance will be at the MTV
Video Music Awards in August on the verge of
Hilary's 18th birthday.

==Filmography==

===Films===

{| prettytable
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Year !! Film !! Role !! Other notes
|-
| 2006 in film|2006 || Foodfight! ||   ||
Animation|Animating
|-
| 2006 in film|2006 || Cheaper by the Dozen 2 ||
Lorraine Baker || Principal photography|Filming as
of July 2005
|-
| 2006 in film|2006 || Material Girls || Tanzie
Marchetta || Post-production
|-
| 2005 in film|2005 || The Perfect Man || Holly
Hamilton ||  
|-
| 2004 in film|2004 || In Search of Santa ||
Crystal || Animation, direct-to-video
|-
| 2004 in film|2004 || Raise Your Voice || Terri
Fletcher ||  
|-
| 2004 in film|2004 || A Cinderella Story || Sam
||  
|-
| 2003 in film|2003 || Cheaper by the Dozen (2003
film)|Cheaper by the Dozen || Lorraine Baker ||
 
|-
| 2003 in film|2003 || The Lizzie McGuire Movie ||
Lizzie McGuire/Isabella ||  
|-
| 2003 in film|2003 || Agent Cody Banks || Natalie
Connors ||  
|-
| 2002 in film|2002 || Cadet Kelly || Kelly
Collins || Disney Channel original movie
|-
| 2001 in film|2001 || Human Nature (film)|Human
Nature || Young Lila Jute || Theatrical release in
2002
|-
| 1998 in film|1998 || Playing by Heart ||  
|| Bit part, uncredited
|-
| 1998 in film|1998 || Casper Meets Wendy || Wendy
|| Direct-to-video release
|}

===Television work===
*True Women (1997 in television|1997)
*The Soul Collector (1999 in television|1999)
*Lizzie McGuire (2001 in television|2001-2004 in
television|2004)
*Cadet Kelly (2002 in television|2002)

====Guest appearances====
 
Duff has made numerous guest appearances in
television shows, her first as a sick child in the
medical drama Chicago Hope in March 2000. In a
2003 episode of The George Lopez Show|George
Lopez, she had a role as a makeup salesperson, and
would later appear in the show in 2005 as a
feminist poet friend of Carmen (Masiela Lusha).
She acted opposite her sister Haylie as the '60s
pop group The Shangri-Las in American Dreams in
2003, played a classmate and idoliser of the title
character in Joan of Arcadia in the winter of
2005,
and served as guest co-host on the talk show The
View in the first week of April 2005.

==Discography==
===Studio albums===

#2003 in music|2003: Metamorphosis (Hilary Duff
album)|Metamorphosis #1 US (1 week), #1 CAN, US
Sales: 3.7+ Million; US Certification: 3x Platinum
#2004 in music|2004: Hilary Duff (album)|Hilary
Duff #2 US, #1 CAN, US Sales: 1.5+ Million; US
Certification: Platinum

===Compilation albums===

#2002 in music|2002: Santa Claus Lane #154 US, US
Sales: 500,000+ Copies; US Certification: Gold
#2005 in music|2005: Most Wanted (Hilary Duff
album)|Most Wanted

Total US Album Sales: 5.7+ Million

===Singles===

*Metamorphosis (Hilary Duff album)|Metamorphosis
**"So Yesterday" - August 2003; #42 US, #7 UK, #2
CAN, #8 AU 
**"Come Clean" - January 2004; #35 US, #20 UK, #7
CAN, #17 AU 
**"Little Voice" (Non-US release) - May 2004; #29
CAN, #29 AU 

*Hilary Duff (album)|Hilary Duff
**"Fly" - August 2004; #21 AU 
**"Haters"
**"I Am" (Radio Release)
**"Someone's Watching Over Me" (Non-US release) -
February 2005; #22 AU 

*Most Wanted (Hilary Duff album)|Most Wanted
**"Wake Up" - June 2005 

*Misc. 
**"Why Not" (Non-US release) - June 2003; #14 AU 
**"Our Lips are Sealed" (with Haylie Duff) - June
2004; #8 AU

===Soundtracks and other recordings===

Besides from her albums, Hilary has also recorded
songs for some soundtracks and compilations. 

*Lizzie McGuire discography TV Series and Movie
Soundtracks
*Disneymania Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
*Radio Disney Jingle Jams
*A Cinderella Story (album)|A Cinderella Story
Soundtrack
*Marlo Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year
Long
*"(I'll Give) Anything But Up!"

==Notes==

# note|EarlyLifeCareer Huff, Richard.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/39915p-3768
6c.html A very busy Miss 'Lizzie'. New York Daily
News. December 1, 2002. Retrieved May 22, 2005.
# note|MichaelChiklisDaddio Ibid.
# note|LizzieMcGuireRatings Ibid.
# note|AnnetteFunicello2002 Ibid.
# note|CadetKellyNetworkHit Ibid.
# note|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-1
http://tvguide.com/movies/database/showmovie.asp?M
I=45647 Tone deaf. TV Guide|TV Guide Online.
October, 2004. Retrieved June 23, 2005.
# note|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-2 Cordova, Randy.
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/1008R
aiseYourVoice08.html Raise Your Voice. The Arizona
Republic. October 8, 2004. Retrieved June 23,
2005.
# note|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-3 Hanke, Ken.
http://www.mountainx.com/movies/r/raiseyourvoice.p
hp Movies: Raise Your Voice. Mountain Xpress.
October, 2004. Retrieved June 23, 2005. 
# note|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-4
http://www.accessatlanta.com/movies/content/shared
/movies/reviews/R/raiseyourvoice.html Review:
Raise Your Voice (free registration required). The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution. October 8, 2004. 
Retrieved June 23, 2005.
# note|RaiseYourVoiceDubClaim-5 Ringel Gillespie,
Eleanor.
http://www.reflector.com/movies/content/shared/mov
ies/reviews/R/raiseyourvoice.html Raise Your
Voice. Reflector. October, 2004. Retrieved June
25, 2005.
# note|MaterialGirls
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=9080  Duff
Sisters Team For Material Girls. Coming Soon.
April 7, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2005.
# note|Foodfight
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8878
Animated Foodfight! at Lions Gate. Coming Soon.
March 22, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2005.
# note|OurLipsAreSealedMTVDebut Desens, Krista.
http://www.netmusiccountdown.com/inc/news_article.
php?id=5567/1 Hilary Duff Records New Album. May
27, 2004. Retrieved June 19, 2005.
# note|HatersLyricsLohan
http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2004-11-30#celeb9
Duff Slams Lohan Song Rumors. Internet Movie
Database. November 30, 2004. Retrieved May 25,
2005.

==Media==
*
http://www.hyfntrak.com/hilaryduff/AFF18869/go.php
Most Wanted Media Player
* http://flashtracking.com/hilaryduff/default.asp?
The Original Media Player

==References==
* http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/default.asp RIAA
Searchable Database Retrieved August 2, 2005.
(record sales)
*
http://www.rockonthenet.com/artists-d/hilaryduff.h
tm Rock on the Net: Hilary Duff Retrieved August
2, 2005. (music information)
*
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADF
EAEE57B1FDA48A57120E1872F4CC6A67AF108D250DA971F284
55A92B63E4591186EC37DA0ABBBE6B67DAB7BB0FD2EA45F43D
5C0EA50F6DD652D5DF0&searchlink=HILARY|DUFF&uid=CAW
030508021846&samples=1&sql=11:ip09kentsq7q~T5 All
Music Guide: Hilary Duff Retrieved August 2, 2005.
* http://top40-charts.com/artist.php?aid=3897
Worldwide Charts: Hilary Duff Retrieved August 2,
2005. (record sales)

==External links==

* http://www.hilaryduff.com/ Official fan site
* http://www.hilaryduffmusic.com/ Official music
site
* http://www.hilaryduff.com/cgi-bin/diary/diary.pl
Her weblog
*imdb name|id=0240381|name=Hilary Duff
*nndb name|id=484/000023415|name=Hilary Duff
*
http://www.mtv.com/community/profiles/profile.jhtm
l?username=MTV_Hilary_Duff MTV Hilary Duff Profile
* http://hduff.net/ Hilary Duff Fan Site
* http://hilarymedia.net/ Hilarymedia.net - Media
site
* http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/People/D/Duff,_Hilary/
Hilary Duff Directory