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Lindsay
Dee Lohan known as Lindsay Lohan was born
on July 2, 1986 in New York City. Lindsay
Lohan is an American actress and pop music
singer. Child actress Lindsay Lohan was
already an experienced performer when
she made her feature debut in the 1998
remake of The Parent Trap. Lohan's family
was financially comfortable from its inception;
her father had inherited his family's
pasta business, which he later sold to
trade in futures (briefly becoming President
of New York Futures Traders). More recently,
he worked as an investment banker, securing
funding for independent films. Lohan's
mother, a former Rockette at Radio City
Music Hall, was a Wall Street analyst
before becoming her daughter's manager.
Despite the family's wealth, Lohan—when
she wasn't tutored on film sets—attended
public schools on Long Island until just
before her high school graduation, finishing
her studies at home. |
Lindsay Lohan began her career with Ford Models
at age three and, at a time when blue-eyed blondes
were in highest demand, the freckle-faced, auburn-haired
child found little work as a fashion model.
Lindsay Lohan started in show business as a
child fashion model formagazine ads and television
commercials.After appearing in numerous TV commercials,
Lohan moved to series TV with a role on the
daytime serial Another World from 1996 to 1997.
Cast as The Parent Trap's scheming twin sisters
after a six month search for just the right
girl, Lohan succeeded in filling Hayley Mills'
shoes, winning over audiences with her pert
charm as both the Californian Hallie and the
British-raised Annie. She subsequently starred
in the Disney TV film Life-Size (2000). Subsequently
cast in actress Bette Midler's shortlived sitcom
Bette, Lohan took a turn as a teenage gossip
columnist (Get a Clue (2002)) before turning
up in yet another remake of a Disney classic,
Freaky Friday (2003).
Following a brief hiatus, Lohan attended her
first-ever film audition and won the lead teen
role in another Disney remake; Freaky Friday
(2003) starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Lohan as
a mother and daughter trapped in the other's
body. Critic Roger Ebert praised Lohan's "Jodie
Foster sort of seriousness and intent focus
beneath her teenage persona," while Carrie
Rickey—who panned the film—called her performance
"unpredictable and inspired." Through
2005, Friday was Lohan's biggest commercial
film success, earning US$160 million worldwide.
Actor & producer Ashton Kutcher considered
Lohan a sufficient ratings draw in December
2003 to feature her in the second-season finale
of Punk'd, his MTV series that plays practical
jokes on celebrities (the episode was widely
reported as the end of the series—also a practical
joke).Eleven months later, Lohan appeared on
That '70s Show opposite Kutcher and her then-boyfriend,
Wilmer Valderrama.
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Lindsay
Lohan was given the lead in two films,
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (her
first feature that was not a remake) and
Paramount's Mean Girls, both released
in 2004. Drama Queen was a moderate success
at the box office, grossing about US$30
million, but was a failure with critics.
"Though still a promising star,"
Robert K. Elder wrote, "Lohan will
have to do a little penance before she's
forgiven for Confessions." That "penance"
came with Mean Girls, her first PG-13
(and first non-Disney) film; her breakout
lead performance pushed the critical and
commercial hit to grosses of over US$86
million domestically and US$128 million
worldwide, "cementing her status
as the new teen movie queen," wrote
Brandon Gray."Lohan dazzles us once
more," said Steve Rhodes. "The
smartly written script is a perfect match
for her intelligent brand of comedy." |
Lindsay Lohan returned to Disney for Herbie:
Fully Loaded (2005), the fifth film in the long-dormant
Herbie series. Her rising popularity allowed
her to choose from a wider variety of projects
and, at age 19, Lohan felt Herbie would help
her make the transition into more grown-up roles."In
most of my other films, I was in high school,"
she said. "Here, just out of college. It's
nice to be able to do something that I think
will be acceptable to the fan base I've accumulated
from my Disney movies, but subconsciously they'll
see me getting older and maturing."Fully
Loaded did well at the box office, earning more
in international release than in the United
States.
Her next film in wide release, Just My Luck,
opened in May 2006 to poor reviews and earned
only $33 million worldwide.The following month,
A Prairie Home Companion—an ensemble film directed
by Robert Altman—fared better, debuting at #7
in limited release and ending its run with nearly
$US20 million in domestic box-office receipts."Lohan
rises to the occasion," wrote Peter Travers,
"delivering a rock-the-house version of
'Frankie and Johnny'." Lohan completed
filming the independent Emilio Estevez film,
Bobby, opposite Elijah Wood, in December 2005;
the film débuted at the Venice Film Festival
on September 5, 2006, and was released in theaters
on November 23, 2006. Chapter 27 with Jared
Leto began filming in New York on January 9,
2006, and had wrapped by March.
Three new projects were announced in April 2006;
Lindsay Lohan will play a girl molested by her
stepfather in Georgia Rule opposite Felicity
Huffman and Jane Fonda (filming began in June),
and a speech assistant to Adrien Brody in Speechless
(she also was set to portray the friend of a
rebellious teenage boy in the comedy Bill, but
dropped out).In May, Lohan joined Annette Bening
and Sean Bean as the announced stars of the
film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of
No Importance;she later dropped out because
"right now she needs focus." MTV News
announced in October that she was signed to
play opposite Keira Knightley in The Best Time
of Our Lives.Lohan began filming I Know Who
Killed Me in late 2006,and she is also set to
appear in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond.
Filmography:
1998 The Parent Trap
2000 Life-Size (TV)
2002 Get a Clue (TV)
2003 Freaky Friday
2004 Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Mean Girls
2005 Herbie: Fully Loaded
2006 Just My Luck
A Prairie Home Companion
Bobby
2007 Georgia Rule
Speechless
2008 The Best Time of Our Lives
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Television:
Another World - 1996–1997
Bette (2000–2001) (appeared October 11, 2000,
in pilot episode only)
Punk'd - one episode, December 14, 2003 (see
above)
Saturday Night Live - Host, May 1, 2004
2004 MTV Movie Awards - Host, June 10, 2004
That '70s Show - "Mother's Little Helper"
episode, November 10, 2004
Saturday Night Live - Cameo for Weekend Update,
December 11, 2004
Saturday Night Live - Host of the season finale,
May 21, 2005
Saturday Night Live - Host, April 15, 2006
2006 World Music Awards - Host, November 2006
Discography
Main article: Lindsay Lohan discography
Albums
Speak (2004)
A Little More Personal (Raw) (2005)
Singles
2004: "Rumors"
2005: "Over"
2005: "First"
2005: "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter
to Father)"
2005: "I Live for the Day"
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