lindsay dee lohan(born july 2 1986),known professionally as lindsay morgan lohan,** an american actress and pop music singer.she started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine ads and telev**ion commercials.at age ten,she began her acting career on a soap opera;at eleven,she made her motion picture début by playing both twins in d**ney's 1998 remake of the parent trap.lohan's breakout role as a leading actress came six years later with 2004's mean girls,which shone the media spotlight on her professional and personal lives—including her nightlife and her parents' marital and legal struggles.
as an adult,lohan began to take on varied roles and projects,including robert altman's a prairie home companion.while filming herbie:fully loaded in 2004,lohan launched her career in music,recording and releasing her first studio album,speak;her second album,a little personal(raw),was released in 2005
personal
lohan was born in new york city and grew up in merrick and cold spring harbor on long **land in new york.she ** the eldest child of michael and dina(née sullivan)lohan,both former actors.she has three younger siblings:brother michael had a role as"lost boy at camp"in the parent trap(1998),s**ter aliana ** an aspiring model and actress,and brother dakota(cody)has modeled fashions.lohan ** of ir**h and italian heritage and was ra**ed catholic.[2]she originally pronounced her name ˈləʊhæn but later settled on ˈləʊən and,in 2005,explained to a **ick audience that she had changed her middle name to something that sounded professional.
lohan and her family h**e donated time and money to charity projects such as the carol m.baldwin breast cancer foundation,s**e the children,the united cerebral palsy associations,and dream come true.
lohan's family was financially comfortable from its inception;her father had inherited h** 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.lindsay'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 **land until just before her high school graduation,fin**hing her studies at home.
like most celebrities,lohan and her family h**e endured public scrutiny of their private lives.it was revealed in 2004 that michael lohan had spent much of lindsay's pre** years in pr**on for securities fraud.in 2005,he was sent back to pr**on for"aggr**ated unlicensed driving"and attempted assault.later that year,lindsay's parents settled their divorce case;her mother's attorney said,"dina and the children are delighted that th** chapter in their lives ** finally over",while her father(through h** lawyer)said,"[i]look forward to the opportunity to rebuild my relationship with my children.
in 2004,lohan shared an apartment in the los angeles,california,area with actress r**en-symoné.the following year,she bought a home in west hollywood while still spending much of her time at her family's home in new york.she has previously dated actor wilmer valderrama.as of 2006,lohan ** dating pink taco restaurateur harry morton.
early work
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.[9]she pers**ted,and eventually appeared in than 100 print ads for toys"r"us.[10]she also modeled for calvin klein kids(usually with siblings michael and ali)and abercrombie kids.through young adulthood,lohan was featured in such diverse magazines as vogue,elle,bl**s(uk),хай клуб(high club,bulgaria),and blenda(japan).
lohan's first auditions for telev**ion work did not go well;by the time she tried out for a duncan hines commercial,she told her mother that she would give up if she did not get the job.[9]she was hired,and lohan went on to appear in over 60 commercials,including a jell-o pudding spot with bill co**y.her ad work led to roles in soap operas,and she was already considered a show-business"veteran"[10]in 1996 when she landed the role of alexandra"alli"fowler on another world,"where she delivered dialogue than any other ten-year-old in daytime serials"of the time.[11]
lohan g**e up another world for the big screen when director nancy meyers cast her as estranged twin s**ters who try to reunite their long-divorced parents(denn** quaid and natasha richardson)in the parent trap(1998).hired in 1997 at age 10,lohan was 11 when filming began in england and california(in los angeles and the napa valley)."i left school for eight months,"she said."when i came back,my friends[asked],'where'd you go?' i said,'my family and i went on a long vacation.' then the movie came out,and they were,like,'um,lindsay?that's you in parent trap,' and i said,'oh,yeah.i also did th** movie while we were gone.'"[5]trap was well-received for a family comedy,bringing in us$92 million worldwide.[12]film critic janet maslin found lohan's dual performances so forceful"that she seems to h**e been taking shy violet lessons from sharon stone."[13]critic kenneth turan called lohan"the soul of th** film as much as hayley mills was of the original,and…she ** adept than her predecessor at creating two d**tinct personalities".[14]
signed by d**ney to a three-film contract,lohan was offered the role of penny in inspector gadget but,after seven months' work on the parent trap,she turned it down.[1]later,she starred in two original telev**ion movies,life-size(2000)(with tyra banks)and get a clue(2002).she also played bette midler's daughter in the first ep**ode of the short-lived series,bette(2000),but lohan—then 14—quit when the production moved from new york to los angeles.in 2001,she hosted the abc-tv commercial series commemorating walt d**ney's 100th birthday during a rebroadcast of the parent trap.
following a brief hiatus,lohan attended her first-ever film audition and won the lead ** role in another d**ney remake;freaky friday(2003)starred jamie lee curt** and lohan as a mother and daughter trapped in the other's body.critic roger ebert pra**ed lohan's"jodie foster sort of seriousness and intent focus beneath her **age persona,"[15]while carrie rickey—who panned the film—called her performance"unpredictable and inspired."[16]through 2005,friday was lohan's biggest commercial film success,earning us$160 million worldwide.[17]
actor/producer ashton kutcher considered lohan a sufficient ratings draw in december 2003 to feature her in the second-season finale of punk'd,h** mtv series that plays practical jokes on celebrities(the ep**ode was widely reported as the end of the series—also a practical joke[18]).eleven months later,lohan appeared on that '70s show opposite kutcher and her then-boyfriend,wilmer valderrama.
breakout role
lohan was given the lead in two films,confessions of a **age 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 30 million but was a failure with critics;though still a prom**ing star,"robert k.elder wrote,"lohan will h**e to do a little penance before she's forgiven for confessions."[19]that"penance"came with mean girls,her first pg-13(and first non-d**ney)film.her breakout lead performance[20]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 ** movie queen,"wrote brandon gray.[21]"lohan dazzles us once "said steve rhodes."[t]he smartly written script ** a perfect match for her intelligent brand of comedy."[22]
mean girls was scripted by tina fey and featured several alumni of saturday night live;lohan was asked to host the show three times,in 2004,2005,and 2006.
lohan returned to d**ney for herbie:fully loaded(2005),the fifth film in the long-dormant herbie series.her r**ing popularity allowed her to choose from a wider variety of projects[4]and,at age 19,lohan felt herbie would help her make the transition into grown-up roles."in most of my other films,i was in high school,"she said."here,[my character **]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 d**ney movies,but subconsciously they'll see me getting older and maturing."[23]fully loaded did well at the box office,earning in international release than in the united states.[24]
her next film in wide release,just my luck,opened in may 2006 to poor reviews and earned only$33 million worldwide.[25]the following month,a prairie home companion—an ensemble film directed by robert altman—fared better,debuting at#7 in limited release and ending its run with nearly$us20 million in domestic box-office receipts.[26]"lohan r**es to the occasion,"wrote peter tr**ers,"delivering a rock-the-house version of 'frankie and johnny'."[27]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 its release ** scheduled for november 17,2006.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: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 ass**tant to adrien brody in speechless[28][29](she also was set to portray the friend of a rebellious **age boy in the comedy bill,but dropped out[30]).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.[31].
music
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