Mandy Moore

Biography


A naturally pretty, bubbly singer and actress hailing from teen pop Mecca Orlando, Florida, Mandy Moore went from local musical theater and fame as the "National Anthem Girl" for her performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Orlando sports events to a platinum debut album at age fifteen. Spotted by producers who heard her take on the patriotic hymn and suggested she cut a demo, Moore was soon a fourteen-year-old sitting pretty with a record deal. Touring with the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC in 1999 exposed the young singer to a large audience, and demand for her debut single "Candy" was so strong that her album release date was actually pushed up, a rare occurrence in the business.

With a video that was strangely provocative although the teenaged Moore has always dressed conservatively in comparison to her teen pop genre-mates Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, "Candy" launched her MTV career as well. Reaching platinum sales by 2000, Moore was now a fixture on MTV, guest hosting the popular daily series "TRL" and starring in specials including "Mandy's Spring Break Makeover". Noting the performer's charm, charisma and excellent screen presence, the network offered Moore her own series, the summer 2000-premiered talk show "The Mandy Moore Show", which resumed in the summer of 2001 retitled "Mandy".

A star whose work has crossed media lines from the beginning, Moore began working as a Neutrogena spokesperson soon after "Candy" was released, and in 2000, the home video "Magic Al and the Mind Factory" surfaced, a children's project she had filmed in 1998. 2001 saw the actress make her big screen debuts, first with a small voice role in "Dr. Dolittle 2" and next as a pivotal supporting player in the G-rated Garry Marshall comedy "The Princess Diaries". As the popular tormentor of unlikely princess Mia (Anne Hathaway), Moore set aside her sunshiny image to play your typical catty schoolgirl bully. Excited for the opportunity to work with legends Marshall and star Julie Andrews, Moore enjoyed an overwhelmingly positive reaction to her entry into film, including a rather warm critics' reception.

As "The Princess Diaries" was set to open in 2001, Moore had just finished filming "A Walk to Remember" (2002), a period romance set in small town America that paired her quiet good girl character opposite troubled popular boy Shane West in a syrupy but effective teen "Love Story"-type tale, and had released a self-titled album that showed a more mature, musically experimental side to the singer, who had a hit with the edgy beat-driven leadoff single "In My Pocket".

After her debut starring role drew respectable box office numbers, Moore was next cast as the lead in "How to Deal" (2003), playing a teen whose cynical views on romance—spurred by her splintered family's misadventures in love—is turned on its head when she falls in love for the first time. That film was followed by another musical release, 2003's Coverage in which Moore attempted to bring songs by Elton John, Todd Rundgren, Cat Stevens and other classic rock and pop artists to her generation of fans. She next played the rebellious, overprotected first daughter of the United States President who, on a road trip to escape constant surveillance, unknowingly falls for the undercover Secret Service agent assigned to shield her in "Chasing Liberty" (2004).

After that conventionally mild crowd-pleaser, Moore co-starred in the sly indie comedy "Saved!" and demonstrated a surprisingly convincing edgy side playing Hilary Faye, an overzealous and self-righteous Christian school student who demonstrates a surprising degree of intolerance when her pregnant best friend refuses to be "saved" and questions their moral stances. The actress' dramatic depths and improvisational abilities added layers of complexity to her character, which in another's hands would've been entirely unsympathetic. For “Racing Stripes” (2005), a family-friendly combination live-action and animated feature, Moore provided the voice of Sandy, a young horse who helps Stripes the zebra run his first race. Moore also scored with a winning recurring stint on the HBO comedy series "Entourage" in 2005 playing herself, sort of, who has a complicated romance with her co-star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) while shooting a big screen superhero movie for director James Cameron. Moore then signed on to play Diane Keaton's daughter in the comedy "Because I Said So" (lensed 2005).

Also Credited As: Amanda Leigh Moore, Mandy MoreBorn: on 04/10/1984 in Nashua, New HampshireJob Titles: Actor, Singer, TV hostFamily
Mother: Stacy Moore.
Significant Others
Companion: Zach Braff. began dating early 2005; split in June 2006
Companion: Andy Roddick. dating as of December 2002
Companion: Wilmer Valderrama. played foreign exchange student Fez on Fox's "That '70s Show"; together from July 25, 2000 to early 2002

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Lindsay Lohan

Biography

When it came time to find a young actress to assume the role of the twins (originated by Hayley Mills) for the 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap", an exhaustive casting search occurred throughout the USA, Canada and even in London. Perhaps because the behind-the-scenes figures opted to avoid the obvious and cast the Olsen twins, thousands of girls were considered. After three callbacks and a screen test with stars Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson, auburn-haired, freckle-faced Long Islander Lindsay Lohan won the role. Although she was just eleven when she was cast, she had an impressive resume.

The oldest child of four born to former actors, Lohan became a child model at age three, purportedly the first red-haired child signed by the Ford Modeling Agency. TV commercials for various products followed, including a Jell-O spot with pitchman Bill Cosby. Lohan also had recurring roles on two daytime dramas (CBS' "Guiding Light" and NBC's "Another World") before she landed the first movie role for which she ever auditioned. Playing separated at birth twins, one American and one British, for "The Parent Trap" remake, she turned in a delightful performance. Lohan next filmed the telepic "Life-Size" (2000)--originally a "Wonderful World of Disney" production later released on home video--opposite Tyra Banks as a Barbie-style doll come to life, part of Lohan's three-picture deal with Disney. In 2000, Lohany was cast Bette Midler's teen daughteer on the short-lived CBS sitcom "Bette" (2000). After shooting the pilot episode, the show's producers decided it would be easier on the L.A.-based crew if filming moved to California, and Lindsay gave up the role to stay in New York, and the role was recast although the series was canceled shortly thereafter.

Lohan next played Lexy Gold in Disney Channel telepic "Get a Clue" (2002). The young actress also pursued a musical career when Emilio Estefan, Jr., took her under his professional wing in 2002. with a five-album production deal and the promise of an aggressive effort to sell her popular style "with a rock edge" to a major record label. She also has worked as a model for Abercrombie & Fitch Kids (A&F Kids) and Calvin Klein Kids.

Lohan continued her relationship with the Mouse Factory, signing on to play Anna Coleman in the theatrical remake of the body-swapping comedy "Freaky Friday" (2003) opposite Jamie Lee Curtis as the mother-and-daughter team who wake up one day in each other's bodies. The film was a surprise summer, generating over $100 million at the box office, raising Lohan's profile even further and landing her in a public fued with fellow teen queen Hilary Duff (the two briefly shared a boyfriend: singer Aaron Carter). Like Duff, she also incorporated her singing career into his acting gig, with the "Freaky Friday" soundtrack including her debut single, "Ultimate." Lohan returned to the public eye carrying the girl-minded comedy "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" (2004) on her solo shoulders. Lohan played Lola, an egocentric teen who is uprooted from the home town that seemingly revolves around her and finds herself competing for attention in Manhattan, with grander and grander schemes. The actress provided vocals on four songs from the film's soundtrack: "Drama Queen (That Girl)," "What Are You Waiting For," "A Day in the Life" and a medley that incorporates the original song "Don't Move On" with her take on Stevie Wonder's "Living for the City" and David Bowie's "Changes."

Next up was a slightly edgier role, taking on the lead in "Mean Girls" (2004), a funny if familiar comedy penned by Tina Fey exploring in-fighting amongst a clique of catty high school girls. The film proved to be a box office success and firmly cemented Lohan's star power, even beyond her teen and 'tween core audience. Under the wing of new mentor Tommy Mottola, the famed head of Sony Music, Lohan also released her first full album, Speak, which swifty achieved platinum status, featuring the single "Rumors," in which she decried the gossipy buzz that had suddenly surrounded her every move.

Indeed, the young actress' rapidly maturing body and youthful sex appeal combined with a reputation for enjoying the Hollywood fast lane suddenly made her regular fodder for gossip magazines, which dutifully followed her denials about having received breast implants, her brief relationship with TV actor Wilmer Valderrama, her alleged hard-partying ways, an agressive paparazzi pursuit that resulted in a fender bender, and, after her figure had turned voluptuous and her titian hair became her trademark, her eyebrow-raising rapid weight loss (which the actress attributed to a healthier lifestyle) and new look as a blonde. The actress also had to deal with press reports regarding her estranged father Michael Lohan, whose alleged substance abuse and short temper (he reportedly threatened the lives of his ex-wife and children) resulted in several brushes with the law, including a legal restraining order preventing him from contact with his family and jail time for a litany of legal offenses including assaulting his brother-in-law at his son's first communion party, violating terms of his restraining order and a 2005 drunk driving crash in which his vehicle struck a utility pole in Long Island and caught fire. Further estranging his famous daughter, he also sought to claim a percentage of his offspring's earnings.

Despite all the lurid press, Lohan's popularity continued unabated and Disney cast her in further family fare, this time the remake of the studio's famous "Love Bug" franchise, "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (2005) as a young girl who inherits the legendary Volkswagen Beetle and takes to the NASCAR race circuit. The Mouse House did have some concerns about the then-voluptuous Lohan's image for its young audiences in some scenes, and spent considerable sums to digitally decreade her burgeouning bust size when it was deemed distracting. Later in 2005 she was in her second auto accident of the year, again blaming pursuing paparazzi. her private life made headlines again when she confessed to Vanity Fair that she had indeed experienced an eating disorder, bulemia, that accounted for her significant weight loss, and was shocked back to healthy ways after she was confronted by "Saturday Night Live's" Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey while hosting the show in 2005. She also admitted to experimenting with drugs. The cover story was released just as Lohan was hospitalized for a reported asthma attack in Miami after ringing in 2006 there. Within a week, Lohan denied having made the statements to the magazine, saying her words were "misconstrued and misconstructed" - The magazine stood by the story.

She joined the cast of Emilio Estevez's independent film "Bobby" (lensed 2005), about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and was set to costar in "Chapter 27" (lensed 2006), an indie film about a woman who befriends Mark David Chapman during the weekend that he kills John Lennon

Born: on 07/02/1986 in Long Island, New YorkJob Titles: Actor, Model

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