Hilary Duff She launched her clothing line, "Stuff by Hilary Duff", in March 2004, with clothes distributed through Target in the US, Kmart in Australia, Zellers in Canada, and Edgars Stores in South Africa. The company, initially started as a clothing line, has expanded its business into furniture, fragrances, and jewelry, targeted at the teen and preteen crowd.
In 2007, the Internet website Stardoll.com previewed Hilary Duff's clothing line to customers by allowing them to dress up a paper doll on the website (which include Hilary Duff's own doll) with the clothes.
In February 2009, Hilary Duff and DKNY Jeans announced their new design partnership and the launch of their collaborative apparel line. She co-designed a collection of special pieces with DKNY Jeans brand called Femme for DKNY Jeans. The clothing line will debut in fine department and specialty stores nationwide in August 2009.
Playmates Toys released a celebrity doll of her in 2004. In late 2006, Mattel released a Hilary Duff Barbie doll. As a fashion designer, Hilary Duff had designed clothes for Barbie dolls in the past & w/ the release of her doll, Hilary Duff joined Reese Witherspoon, Beyoncé Knowles, and Lucille Ball who have their own celebrity dolls.
In September 2006, She released Hilary Duff 's perfume, "With Love... Hilary Duff", which was distributed by the Elizabeth Arden company. The perfume was initially sold only in Macy's in the U.S. and soon it was being sold in other regions like Japan and Canada. "With Love...Hilary Duff" was one of the three best-selling fragrances launched at U.S. department stores in late 2006. In 2007, she announced that she will be releasing a summer version of the perfume titled, "Wrapped With Love". It was released in January 2008, and a Spring Gift Set version was released in time for Valentine's Day.
She and her pet dog Lola made an appearance in the Electronic Arts game The Sims 2: Pets, which was released on October 2006. In console versions of the game, Hilary Duff's character visits public areas and allows the players to let their Sims socialize with her and Lola. Animal rights' organization, "Animal welfare league" have criticized Hilary Duff and celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson for displaying their dogs as fashion accessories rather than pets.
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In January 2009, it was announced that Hilary Duff would star in an indie feature, The Story of Bonnie and Clyde, an adaptation of Bonnie & Clyde. In April 2009, She began filming Provinces of Night, which is based on a book by the same name written by William Gay. She plays Raven Halfacre, the teenage daughter of a promiscuous, alcoholic mother. Hilary Duff has signed on for a 7-episode arc as Olivia Burke, a movie star who enrolls at NYU in search of a traditional college experience and ends up rooming with Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) in Gossip Girl.
In August 2009, it was announced that Hilary Duff 'll star in The Business of Falling in Love, a romantic comedy based on the book "Diary of a Working Girl," by Daniella Brodsky and directed by Gil Junger. The film is set to appear on the small screen for ABC Family. In the movie, Duff plays a fashion reporter who goes undercover in the business world hoping to find love while writing an article about dating men in suits. In September 2009, Duff released a second clothing line with DKNY Jeans as "Femme for DKNY." Hilary Duff decided to design a new clothing line for girls her age which had detachable scarves and adjustable belt loops.
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In June 2008, she joined the cast of the Polish brothers comedy Stay Cool. Hilary Duff co-starred alongside Winona Ryder, Mark Polish, Sean Astin, Chevy Chase, and Jon Cryer. In the film, Hilary Duff portrayed the character of Shasta O'Neil, described as a s*xy high school senior and the film is scheduled for release in 2009.
In November 2008, her 2nd greatest hits album, Best of Hilary Duff was released and the album's 1st single "Reach Out" which samples Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" was released in the previous month, the song became her 3rd number one dance hit. Hilary Duff thereafter announced that Hilary Duff would be leaving her record label Hollywood Records after 6 years of service. Hilary Duff later announced to MTV that she would begin work on her new album in December 2008.
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During her Still Most Wanted tour, Hilary Duff performed in Guadalajara, Mexico, where Hilary Duff filmed a brief appearance on the soap opera Rebelde. Hilary Duff was also the guest star on The Andy Milonakis Show for its 3rd season premiere in 2007. In April 2008, she was offered the lead role of Annie Mills in the CW Network's Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff, but Hilary Duff turned it down because Hilary Duff was more interested in looking for projects outside the teen genre. Hilary Duff is also a model signed to IMG Models New York.
She co-wrote the material for her 3rd studio album Dignity, along with Kara DioGuardi, who co-produced the album with Rhett Lawrence, Tim & Bob, and Richard Vission. She stated that compared to her previous music, it is "more dancey" and makes use of more real instruments. Hilary Duff said, "I don't know exactly how to explain what we're doing, but it's fun and funky and different, something new for me. It's really cool". In late 2005, the Duff sisters lent their voices to the computer animated comedy Foodfight!, which is to be distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment, but has no scheduled release date. The director of the film, Larry Kasanoff, said that he was "absolutely thrilled to have the Duff sisters as part of the cast". She also starred opposite John Cusack in War, Inc. which was released in theatres in LA and Manhattan, NY on May 23, 2008.
On September 7, 2007, She confirmed on MuchOnDemand, that Hilary Duff would be filming two independent films Greta, and What Goes Up.
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o Hilary Duff o then-boyfriend Joel Madden and stalker Maksim Miakovsky
0 comments Posted by Baserolo at 8:13 PMwhen asked about her then-boyfriend Joel Madden, a native of Waldorf, Maryland, in an interview with Elle, she replied, "He's very real, like, he's from a pretty ghetto place in Maryland... I like that". her "ghetto" comments sparked a mixture of mild offense and bemusement from residents of the Waldorf area, as the suburban, mostly middle-class town did not fall into the traditional impoverished inner city concept of a ghetto. o Hillary Duff o later claimed she's referring not to Waldorf, but actually a section of Baltimore where Madden lived briefly as a young adult.
In late 2006 she took legal action against an alleged stalker and his roommate. On November 3, 2006, Hilary Duff's stalker, Maksim Miakovsky, was arrested for threatening to kill her. He was booked on charges of making criminal threats and stalking. According to legal papers filed by her, Miakovsky came to the U.S. "for the sole purpose of meeting and becoming romantically involved with Ms. Duff". Miakovsky was being held on $200,000 bail at the Manhattan Beach jail. He was arraigned on November 7, 2006. On January 19, 2007, Miakovsky was sentenced to 117 days in jail and 5 years probation after pleading no contest to the charges.
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"Hilary Duff-Career Work 2005"
In 2005, Hilary Duff starred in The Perfect Man in which Duff played the eldest daughter of a divorced woman (Heather Locklear). The Perfect Man film received mostly harsh reviews and did not live up to box office expectations, grossing $19,770,475 globally. In the same year,2005, Hilary Duff was again nominated for a Razzie Award, for The Perfect Man and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. The 2006 satirical comedy Material Girls, in which Hilary Duff co-starred with her sister Haylie, was also not well received by critics, grossing only $16,907,561 worldwide. The Perfect Man film, directed by Martha Coolidge and co-produced by Madonna's independent film production company Maverick Entertainment, starred the Duff sisters as wealthy siblings who must fight to reclaim their fortune following a scandal. She along with her sister Haylie, received 2 more nominations for Razzie awards for their role in the film.
Hilary Duff's 3rd album, Most Wanted (2005), comprised her favorite tracks from Hilary Duff's previous 2 albums, remixes, and new songs inspired by pop-rock musicians such as The Killers and Muse. In an appearance on Total Request Live, She stated that it was not a greatest hits album, but that her label told her it was time to release a new album. She had more creative control over Most Wanted compared to her previous releases, co-writing the new material with producers Joel Madden and his brother, Benji, both members of Good Charlotte. The lead single, "Wake Up", became Hilary Duff's highest peaking single on the U.S. Hot 100 at the time, and its video received heavy rotation on MTV. The video for the 2nd single, "Beat of My Heart", was also popular, but the single itself did not chart in the United States The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and became her 3rd number one debut in Canada. An Italy-only compilation, 4Ever, was released in 2006. Duff recorded new songs for her movie, Material Girls, which included a Timbaland-produced cover version of Madonna's "Material Girl" with her sister.
By 2005, Hilary Duff appeared to have lost weight, leading the media to speculate that she had developed an eating disorder, though Duff denied this claim. She was interviewed on the Australian current affair show Today Tonight and stated that Hilary Duff lost weight by leading a more active lifestyle. Later in 2006, an article on Digital Spy stated that Duff had slimmed down to a U.S. size zero because of media reports suggesting she had gained fifteen pounds. Hilary Duff later stated that she had been feeling the pressure to be thin, because Hilary Duff is perceived in the media to be either too fat or too thin. Duff called this "judgmental" and "mean".
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Hilary Duff... in January 2004, the 2nd DisneyMania disc, DisneyMania 2, was released and featured a duet, "The Siamese Cat Song" with her sister. Another song, "Circle of Life", featured Duff and other Disney Channel stars. Hilary Duff and her sister recorded a cover of The Go-Go's' "Our Lips Are Sealed" for the soundtrack to A Cinderella Story, which also included two other songs by Hilary Duff. The video for "Our Lips Are Sealed" was popular on MTV's Total Request Live, but the song failed to chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
Hilary Duff's 2nd full-length album was the self-titled Hilary Duff in which Hilary Duff co-wrote some songs. Hilary Duff described the album as more "personal" and having a "rock feel" than Metamorphosis. It was released on her 17th birthday (in September 2004) and debuted at number two in the U.S. and at number one in Canada. The album sold over 1.5 million copies in the U.S. in 8 months, but its only U.S. single, "Fly", failed to chart on the Hot 100. "Fly" reached the top forty in Australia, where the album produced a second top forty single, "Someone's Watching over Me", which was the theme song of the film Raise Your Voice. Hilary Duff contributed the song "(I'll Give) Anything but Up!" for the 2004 album Marlo Thomas & Friends: Thanks & Giving All Year Long (2004).
In 2004, "Hilary Duff" starred in the romantic comedy A Cinderella Story. Though the reviews were mostly negative, the film went on to become a moderate box office hit, and critics were impressed by Duff's performance. A Cinderella Story earned $70,067,909 worldwide and was a commercial success. Later that year, Hilary Duff starred in the film Raise Your Voice, Hilary Duff's 1st role in a drama film. While some critics praised Hilary Duff for appearing in a more mature and serious role than her previous films, the film itself was heavily panned. Several reviews were indifferent towards her acting performance and were particularly harsh towards Duff's vocals, with critics pointing out what appeared to be her digitally enhanced voice. The film received a lukewarm response at the box office, and is Duff's least successful film commercially, with total theater receipts of $14 million. The same year, Duff received her 1st Razzie nomination for worst actress for her roles in Raise Your Voice and A Cinderella Story.
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Hilary Duff in 2002, she recorded a cover version of Brooke McClymont's "I Can't Wait" for the Lizzie McGuire soundtrack, and "The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room" for the first DisneyMania compilation album. Hilary Duff 1st album was Santa Claus Lane (2002), a collection of Christmas songs that included duets with her sister Haylie, Lil' Romeo, and Christina Milian. Accompanied by the Disney Channel-only single "Tell Me a Story (About the Night Before)", it peaked at 154 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart and was certified gold. The track "Santa Claus Lane" was included on the soundtrack to The Santa Clause 2 and the single, "What Christmas Should Be", was used in Cheaper by the Dozen. Hilary Duff sang several tracks for The Lizzie McGuire Movie soundtrack, which included "I Can't Wait" and "Why Not", the latter peaking at # 14 in Australia. The soundtrack to The Lizzie McGuire Movie went platinum in 2003.
In 2003, Hilary Duff received her 1st major role in a feature film when Hilary Duff was cast alongside Frankie Muniz in Agent Cody Banks. Agent Cody Banks film received positive reviews and was successful enough to spawn a sequel, in which Duff did not participate. The same year, in 2003, Hilary Duff reprised her role as Lizzie McGuire for The Lizzie McGuire Movie, which exceeded box office expectations, earning $42.6 million at the US box office and $55 million worldwide. It received mixed reviews, with certain critics calling it "an unabashed promotion of Duff’s image, just as Crossroads was for Spears", while other reviews were generally positive and encouraging. Later that year, Hilary Duff played one of the 12 children of Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt in the family film Cheaper by the Dozen, which remains her highest grossing film to date. Hilary Duff reprised her role in the sequel Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), which failed to be as successful as the original film and was panned by critics.
Hilary Duff's first full-length studio album, Metamorphosis (2003), reached #1 on the U.S. and Canadian charts and had sold over 3.7 million copies by May 2005. The lead single, "So Yesterday" (co-written and produced by The Matrix), was a top ten hit in several countries; its follow-up, the Laguna Beach theme song "Come Clean", became Hilary Duff's first top 40 U.S. hit and reached the top 20 in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The video was nominated in the category of MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. The 3rd single, "Little Voice", was not released in the U.S. and was a minor hit in Canada and Australia. In late 2003, Hilary Duff embarked on her first concert tour, the Metamorphosis Tour, and later the Most Wanted Tour. Most shows scheduled in the major cities were completely sold out.
Hilary Duff also made several guest appearances in television shows, Hilary Duff's 1st as a sick child in the medical drama Chicago Hope in March 2000. In a 2003 episode of George Lopez, Hilary Duff had a role as a makeup salesperson; Hilary Duff later reappeared in the show in 2005 as Kenzie, a feminist poet friend of the character Carmen (Masiela Lusha). In 2003, Hilary Duff acted opposite her sister Haylie in American Dreams, while in 2005, Hilary Duff played a classmate and idolizer of the title character of Joan of Arcadia.
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Hilary Duff - 1st role in a theatrical motion picture, Human Nature.
0 comments Posted by Baserolo at 12:56 AMHilary Duff's 1st role in a theatrical motion picture was in Human Nature (2002), an independent film shot around the time of the start of Lizzie McGuire.
Human Nature was 1st showcased at the Cannes and Sundance film festivals. Human Nature film, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry, follows a female naturalist, played by Patricia Arquette. Hilary Duff played the younger version of Arquette's character.
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Hilary Duff, with Lizzie McGuire 1st aired on the Disney Channel on January 12, 2001. Hilary Duff, with Lizzie McGuire was a ratings hit, drawing in 2.3 million viewers per episode.
Hilary Duff's participation in the show led to her becoming highly popular among children between the ages of 7 and 14, with critic Richard Huff of the New York Daily News calling her "a 2002 version of Annette Funicello".
After Hilary Duff fulfilled her 65 episode contract with Lizzie McGuire, Disney considered continuing the franchise further, through films and a prime-time television series to be broadcast on ABC.
However, the plans failed because Hilary Duff's representatives said she was not being paid enough for the proposed series. Hilary Duff also starred in the Disney Channel television film Cadet Kelly. Cadet Kelly became the network's most watched program in its 19-year history. In Cadet Kelly movie, Hilary Duff plays a free-spirited girl who enrolls in a military school and finds it hard to adjust to its strict and disciplined environment.
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Hilary Duff - Rise to fame, when cast children in the pilot episode of the NBC sitcom Daddio.
0 comments Posted by Baserolo at 7:06 AMHilary Duff's 1st serious rise to fame came when Hilary Duff was cast as one of the children in the pilot episode of the NBC sitcom Daddio in 2000. Her co-star Michael Chiklis, stated, "After working with her the first day, I remember saying to my wife, 'this young girl is going to be a movie star'.
Hilary Duff was completely at ease with herself and comfortable in her own skin." Duff was dropped from the cast of Daddio before it was aired, which made her reluctant to pursue her acting career further.
However, Hilary Duff manager and mother urged her on, and a week later Hilary Duff successfully auditioned for the children's television series Lizzie McGuire, where Hilary Duff portrayed the title role of a clumsy but average middle school girl. The show focused on her growth into teenhood.
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Hilary Duff - In The Soul Collector, won a Young Artist Award.
0 comments Posted by Baserolo at 6:45 PMHilary Duff, in 1999, she appeared in a supporting role in the television film The Soul Collector, which was based on a (Maureen Child) Kathleen Kane novel.
Hilary Duff won a Young Artist Award for "Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot (Supporting Young Actress)" for Duff's role in the movie.
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Hilary Duff's early career was marked by playing minor roles, starting off with an uncredited appearance in Hallmark Entertainment's western miniseries True Women in 1997.
Hilary Duff also served as an uncredited Extra (actor), in writer-director Willard Carroll's ensemble dramedy Playing by Heart in 1998.
Hilary Duff's first major role was as a star of the 1998 film Casper Meets Wendy, a direct-to-video sequel to Casper in which Hilary Duff plays the young witch Wendy the Good Little Witch, who encounters the animated character Casper the Friendly Ghost. The film was released to mostly unenthusiastic reviews
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Hilary Duff's mother encouraged her to take up acting classes alongside her elder sister, Haylie Duff, which resulted in both girls winning roles in various local theater productions. At the ages of 8 and 6, respectively, the Duff sisters participated in the ballet, The Nutcracker Suite with Columbus BalletMet in San Antonio, Texas.
Haylie/ Hilary Duff siblings became more enthusiastic about the idea of choosing acting as a profession, and eventually relocated to California with their mother. Duff's father stayed at the family home in Houston to take care of their business.
After several years of auditions and meetings, the Duff sisters (Haylie Duff and Hilary Duff) were cast in various television commercials.
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Hilary Duff was born in Houston, Texas on September 28, 1987.
Hilary Duff is the 2nd child of Susan Colleen (née Cobb) and husband Robert Erhard Duff.
Hilary Duff's mother is a homemaker and a film producer.
Hilary Duff's father is a partner in a chain of convenience stores, who resides at the family home in Houston to maintain the family's convenience store business.
Hilary Duff has an elder sister, Haylie Duff. Haylie Duff is also an actress/singer.
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Hilary Duff - Launched a clothing line, "Stuff by Hilary Duff" and two exclusive perfume.
0 comments Posted by Baserolo at 6:44 AMHilary Duff has launched a clothing line, "Stuff by Hilary Duff", and two exclusive perfume collections with Elizabeth Arden.
Hilary Duff and her mother were listed as producers for the movie Material Girls, As of September 2008, Hilary Duff upcoming films include animated comedy Foodfight!, and independent films Greta, What Goes Up and Stay Cool.
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Hilary Duff has expanded her repertoire into pop music, with three RIAA certified Platinum albums and over thirteen million records sold worldwide.
Hilary Duff's 1st studio album, Metamorphosis (2003), was certified triple platinum and Hilary Duff followed it up with two more platinum albums, Hilary Duff (2004) and Most Wanted (2005). Hilary Duff had a musical comeback with the release of her third studio album, Dignity (2007), which was certified Gold in August 2007.
In November 2008 Hilary Duff released another Greatest Hits compilation, Best of Hilary Duff.
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Hilary Duff with birth name Hilary Erhard Duff was born on September 28, 1987, Houston, Texas, U.S..
Hilary Duff is an American actress singer-songwriter, fashion designer, film producer, and spokesperson. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in Hilary Duff's childhood, she gained fame for playing the title role in the television series Lizzie McGuire.
Hilary Duff went on to have a film career; Hilary Duff's most commercially successful movies include Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), and A Cinderella Story (2004).
Hilary Duff's Genre(s) Pop, teen pop, pop rock, dance-pop, bubblegum pop, electronic rock, electropop, synthpop; Instrument(s) Vocals; Label(s) Walt Disney (2001—2003), Buena Vista (2001—2004), Hollywood (2002—2008).
Edited May 11, 2011, additional informationHilary Duff subsequently ventured into motion pictures and has many successful films to her credit including The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Hilary Duff has most recently appeared in According to Greta and Stay Cool.
As of December 2010, Hilary Duff's upcoming films include, Bloodworth, The Story of Bonnie and Clyde, and She Wants Me.Hilary Duff has since expanded her repertoire into pop music with the release of three RIAA-certified platinum albums: Metamorphosis, her debut studio album, was certified triple platinum and was supplemented by a further two platinum albums, Hilary Duff and Most Wanted.
In 2007, Hilary Duff released her third studio album, Dignity, which was certified gold later than year and spawned singles "With Love" – her highest charting US single to date – and "Stranger". Best of Hilary Duff, a compilation of her greatest hits, was released in the last quarter of 2008 producing her a third #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs with the single "Reach Out". Duff has sold over thirteen million records worldwide; her contributions to the music industry have gained her commercial and critical success worldwide while Billboard ranked her the 69th Artist of the 2000s decade.
Branching into the fashion industry, Hilary Duff has also launched her own clothing lines, Stuff by Hilary Duff and Femme for DKNY Jeans, and two exclusive perfume collections with Elizabeth Arden as well as having been signed on to modelling agency IMG Models.
Other business ventures include writing a young adult novel Elixir and being accredited as an executive producer for According to Greta and a producer for the films Material Girls and Beauty & the Briefcase.
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