Lindsay Dee Lohan (born 2 July 1986) is an American
actress and pop music singer. Known professionally as
Lindsay Morgan Lohan, she started in show business as
a child model for magazine and television ads. At age
10, she began her acting career on a soap opera; at
11, she made her motion picture début by playing
both twins in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.
Lohan's breakout role as a leading actress came six
years later with 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 more mature roles and
projects, including Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion.
While filming Herbie: Fully Loaded, Lohan recorded and
released Speak in 2004, launching her career in music;
her second album was released in 2005.
Biography and career
Personal
Lohan was born in New York City and raised
in Merrick, Long Island, New York. She is the eldest
child of Michael and Dina (née Sullivan) Lohan,
both former actors. She has two younger brothers, Michael
and Dakota ("Cody"), and a younger sister,
Aliana ("Ali"). Lohan—who originally
pronounced her name 'lo-han but later settled on 'lo-?n—is
of Irish and Italian heritage and was raised Catholic.
She and her family have donated time and money to charity
projects such as The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer
Foundation, Save the Children, The United Cerebral Palsy
Association, and her own charity organization, Dream
Come True.
Lohan's family was financially comfortable
from its inception; her father had inherited his family's
pasta business, and Lindsay helped him create Denata's
Pasta Chips. Michael Lohan later sold the business
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 attended public schools until just before
her high school graduation, finishing her studies
at home.
Like most celebrities, Lohan and her
family have endured public scrutiny of their private
lives. It was revealed in 2004 that Michael Lohan
had spent much of Lindsay's preteen years in prison
for securities fraud.In 2005, he was sent back to
prison for "aggravated 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
this chapter in their lives is finally over",
while her father, through his lawyer, said, "
look forward to the opportunity to rebuild my relationship
with my children."In 2005, Lohan bought a home
in Beverly Hills, California, but still spent much
of her time at her family's home in New York.
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 at first. She persisted, and eventually
appeared in more than 100 print ads for Toys "R"
Us.[9] 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, Bliss (UK),("High
Club", Bulgaria), and Blenda (Japan).
Lohan's first auditions for television
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. She
was hired, and Lohan went on to appear in over 60
commercials, including a Jell-O pudding spot with
Bill Cosby. Her ad work led to roles in soap operas,
and she was already considered a show-business "veteran"
in 1996 when she landed the role of Alexandra "Alli"
Fowler on Another World, "where she delivered
more dialogue than any other 10-year-old in daytime
serials" of the time.
Lohan gave up Another World for the
big screen when director Nancy Meyers cast her as
estranged twin sisters who try to reunite their long-divorced
parents (Dennis 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
(both 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 this movie while we were gone.'"Trap
did well at the box office, bringing in US$92 million
worldwide. Film critic Janet Maslin said that Lohan
"plays the dual role with ... so much forcefulness
that she seems to have been taking shy violet lessons
from Sharon Stone." Critic Kenneth Turan wrote,
"Lohan's the soul of this film as much as Hayley
Mills was of the original, and ... she is more adept
than her predecessor at creating two distinct personalities".
Signed by Disney 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. Later, she starred in two original
television movies, Life-Size (with Tyra Banks) and
Get a Clue. She also played Bette Midler's daughter
in the first episode 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 Disney's 100th birthday during a rebroadcast
of The Parent Trap.
Following a brief hiatus, Lohan auditioned
for (and won) the lead teen role in another Disney
remake; Freaky Friday (2003) starred Jamie Lee Curtis
and Lohan as a mother and daughter who each get trapped
in the other's body. Critic Roger Ebert wrote that
Lohan "has that Jodie Foster sort of seriousness
and intent focus beneath her teenage persona,"
while Carrie Rickey—who panned the film—called
Lohan's performance "unpredictable and inspired."
Through 2005, Friday was Lohan's biggest commercial
film success.
Actor/producer Ashton Kutcher considered
Lohan enough of a household name in December 2003
to feature her in the second-season finale of Punk'd,
his MTV series that plays practical jokes on celebrities.
Eleven months later, Lohan made a cameo appearance
on That '70s Show opposite Kutcher and her then-boyfriend,
actor Wilmer Valderrama.
Breakout role
Lohan was given the lead in two films, Confessions
of a Teenage Drama Queen (her first Disney 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, but a failure with critics;
Robert K. Elder wrote, "Though still a promising
star, 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$129 million worldwide, "cementing
her status as the new teen movie queen," wrote
Brandon Gray.Steve Rhodes said, "Lohan dazzles
us once more ... the smartly written script is a perfect
match for her intelligent brand of comedy."Mean
Girls was scripted by Tina Fey and featured several
alumni of Saturday Night Live; Lohan was asked to
host the show in 2004 and again in 2005.
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,
[my character is] 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, Just My Luck, is scheduled
for theatrical release on 12 May 2006; A Prairie Home
Companion, an ensemble film directed by Robert Altman,
follows on 9 June 2006 (its North American premiere
is set for 10 March 2006 at the South by Southwest
Festival in Austin, Texas). Lohan completed filming
the independent Emilio Estevez film, Bobby, opposite
Elijah Wood, in December 2005; Chapter 27 with Jared
Leto began filming in New York on 9 January 2006.
Music
Hoping to become a "triple threat" (actor/model/singer)
like her idol, Ann-Margret, Lohan began by showcasing
her singing talents through her films. For the Freaky
Friday soundtrack, she sang the closing theme, "Ultimate";
she also recorded four songs for the Confessions of
a Teenage Drama Queen soundtrack.
Producer Emilio Estefan, Jr., signed
Lohan to a five-album production deal in 2002. "The
minute I heard her sing, I knew she was gifted,"
he said, "and [she] has an incredible ability
to connect with her audience. I am very excited to
be working with her." Lohan said she was "extremely
excited" and added, "I am surrounded by
a group of very talented people." Two years later,
Lohan signed a recording contract with Casablanca
Records, headed by "diva-maker" Tommy Mottola.
Her début album, Speak, was released in December
2004, and peaked at number four on the Billboard 200.
By early 2005, it was certified Platinum. Though primarily
a pop-rock album, Speak was introduced with the single
"Rumors", described by Rolling Stone as
"a bass-heavy, angry club anthem".Its sexually-suggestive
video reached number one on MTV's TRL and was nominated
for Best Pop Video at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.
"Rumors" eventually earned a Gold certification.
"[W]ith just two hit films under
her belt," Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music
Guide wrote, "Lohan decided it was time to turn
[herself] into a multimedia, cross-platform star ...
and so Speak was recorded quickly and rushed into
the stores". He called her music "a blend
of old-fashioned, Britney-styled dance-pop and the
anthemic, arena rock sound pioneered by fellow tween
stars Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson. [However,] Lohan
stands apart from the pack with her party-ready attitude
and her husky voice".
In December 2005, her second album,
A Little More Personal (Raw), débuted at number
20 on the Billboard 200 chart, but fell under the
top 100 within six weeks. Reviews were mixed; critics
wondered why an album in which Lohan poured out her
heart came across instead as a "slick pop production."Slant
magazine called it "contrived" and said,
"for all the so-called weighty subject matter,
there's not much meat on these bones." Still,
A Little More Personal (Raw) was certified Gold on
18 January 2006.
The music video for her first single,
"Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)"—directed
by Lohan and featuring the acting début of
her sister, Ali—was a dramatization of the pain
Lohan says her family has suffered at the hands of
her father."It's kind of offensive," she
said, "[but] I hope he sees the positive side
of the video rather than the negative."
Filmography
2007 Chapter 27 Friend of Mark David Chapman Post-production
2006 Bobby Diane Post-production
A Prairie Home Companion Annie Angels Premiere: June,
2006
Just My Luck Ashley Premiere: May, 2006
2005 Herbie: Fully Loaded Maggie Peyton
2004 Mean Girls Cady Heron
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen Mary Elizabeth
"Lola" Cep
2003 Freaky Friday Anna Coleman
2002 Get a Clue (TV) Lexy Gold
2000 Life-Size (TV) Casey Mitchell
1998 The Parent Trap Hallie Parker/Annie James
Television
Saturday Night Live - Host of the season finale, 21
May 2005
Saturday Night Live - Cameo for Weekend Update, 11
December 2004
That '70s Show - "Mother's Little Helper"
episode, 10 November 2004
Saturday Night Live - Host, 1 May 2004
Punk'd - one episode, 14 December 2003 (see above)
Bette (2000–2001) (appeared 11 October 2000
in pilot episode only)
Another World - 1996–1997
Discography
Albums
A Little More Personal (Raw) (2005)
Speak (2004)
source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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