Lindsay Lohan Biography

The American actress Lindsay Lohan was born in 1986 in New York, and grew up in Long Island’s Cold Spring Harbor area. Lohan’s mother was a former performer, and so all the Lohan children were encouraged to pursue careers in entertainment from a very young age.

Lindsey began modeling when she was still a toddler, and by the time she was a teenager she’d appeared in over sixty commercials. By the age of ten, she’d started homeschooling to allow her more time to work, and she began her role as Alli Fowler on the soap opera Another World. But it was a role offered to her in the year that followed that ultimately became her big breakthrough and made Lohan one of the most recognizable faces of the new millennium.

In the late 1990’s, Disney Studios sought to re-boot the classic Disney film The Parent Trap, in the same fashion as the first was filmed – with one actor playing the parts of both twins (instead of hiring twins to play the role.) Lindsey Lohan auditioned for the role and was hired alongside her screen parents, Natasha Richardson and Dennis Quaid. The film was a huge success, earning nearly $100 million worldwide and earning Lohan significant acclaim for her performance.

The Parent Trap earned Lindsey a three-film deal with Disney Studios and also a Young Artist Award for her performance. Over the course of the next decade, Lindsey Lohan appeared in multiple films, including: Mean Girls (2004), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Bobby (2006.) But at the same time, Lindsey decided to pursue another goal, to launch a career as a singer. She released a debut album, Speak, in 2004, followed by the album A Little More Personal (Raw) in 2005, but to lukewarm reviews and moderate commercial success.

In recent years, Lindsey Lohan has become equally famous for her brushes with the legal system and her evolving struggle with addiction, finding herself in and out of rehab facilities over the last few years. But as of 2013, her career was back on track with an appearance in the film The Canyons, and she recently made her stage debut in London, starring in the West End production of Speed the Plow.