Hilary Duff portraits

Duff was born in Houston, Texas on September 28, 1987.^[5] She is the second child of Susan Colleen (née Cobb), a homemaker and a film producer and husband Robert Erhard Duff, a partner in a chain of convenience stores, who resides at the sexy la laine family home in Houston to maintain the family's convenience store business. She has an elder sister, Haylie Duff, who is also an actress/singer. Duff's mother encouraged Hilary to take up acting classes alongside her elder sister, Haylie, which resulted in both girls winning roles in various local theater productions. At the ages of eight and six, respectively, the Duff sisters participated in the ballet, The Nutcracker Suite with Columbus BalletMet in San Antonio.^[5] The 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.^[6] After several years of auditions and meetings, the Duff sisters were cast in various television commercials.^[7]

Duff's early career was marked by playing minor roles, starting off with an uncredited hilary duff wallpapers 1280x1024 appearance in Hallmark Entertainment's western miniseries True Women in 1997. She also served as an uncredited extra, in writer-director Willard Carroll's ensemble dramedy Playing by Heart in 1998. Her first major role was as a star of the 1998 film Casper Meets Wendy, a direct-to-video sequel to Casper in which she plays the young witch Wendy, who encounters the animated character Casper. The film was released to mostly unenthusiastic reviews.^[8][9]

Duff's first full-length studio album, Metamorphosis (2003), reached number one on the U.S. and Canadian charts^[27] and had sold over 3.7 million copies by May 2005.^[28] The lead single, "So photos d'hilary duff avec scarlett johansson Yesterday" (co-written and produced by The Matrix), was a top ten hit in several countries,^[29] its follow-up, the Laguna Beach theme song "Come Clean", became Duff's first top forty U.S. hit^[30] and reached the top twenty in UK, Australia and New Zealand. The video was nominated in the category of Best Pop Video at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards.^[31][32] The third single, "Little Voice", was not released in the U.S. and was a minor hit in Canada and Australia. In late 2003, 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.^[33]