Haylie Katherine Duff (born February 19, 1985) is an American actress and singer songwriter. She is best known for being the sister of Hilary Duff and her supporting role on 7th Heaven, as well as playing supporting roles in the films Material Girls and Napoleon Dynamite.

Early life

Duff was born in Houston, Harris County, Texas. She is two and a half years older than her sister, the popular musician and actress Hilary Duff.

Her mother, Susan Colleen (née Cobb), is a homemaker and film producer (co-executive producer of A Cinderella Story (2004) and producer of The Perfect Man (2005) and Material Girls (2006), as well as the manager of her sister Hilary. Her father, Robert Erhard (Bob) Duff, is a partner and owner in a chain of convenience stores with father John B. Duff and who resides at the family home in Houston to maintain the family's business. She began her acting career as an offshoot of her early dance training. Growing up in Texas, Duff began ballet at an early age. By age ten, Duff landed a role in the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s production of The Nutcracker.

Career

Actress

Duff's early career started by making guest appearances on made for television movies such as Hope and True Women and on TV shows such as The Amanda Show. In addition to guest-starring roles on Chicago Hope, Boston Public, and Third Watch, Duff became a familiar face starting in late 2002 as Amy Saunders/Sanders on the children's television series, Lizzie McGuire. The star of that show was Duff’s younger sister, Hilary, whose own acting career was just starting to take off at the time. Hilary’s career would quickly eclipse her sibling's in short time, but Haylie would continue to maintain a presence on the small screen.

In 2004, Duff made a guest appearances on That's So Raven as Katina Jones. After making guest appearances on television, Duff received her first role in a feature film when she was cast in Napoleon Dynamite. She then by making guest appearances, which include Joan of Arcadia and American Dreams. In 2005, Duff joined the cast of the TV show 7th Heaven, playing Sandy Jameson, best friend to Simon's girlfriend in a Pregnant stage, where she got Pregnant by Martin Brewer.

In summer 2006, Duff joined the Broadway cast of Hairspray, portraying mean girl Amber Von Tussle, and playing the part through the beginning of October 2006. Duff has also starred in Material Girls with her sister Hilary.

Following Material Girls, Duff appeared in various made for television/straight-to-DVD movies including Nightmare, My Sexiest Year, Legacy, Backwoods, Love Takes Wing, and Love Finds a Home.

On January 22, Duff landed a role in the show Barely Legal, which her sister appears in, as "the big sister who visits from time to time."^[1]

Singer

Duff wrote or co-wrote several songs on three of Hilary Duff's albums, Metamorphosis (2003), Hilary Duff (2004), and the song "Gypsy Woman", on Hilary's fourth album, Dignity (2007). She has recorded numerous singles for various soundtracks with her sister, with most of them appearing on the Disneymania discs. She was featured on legendary rapper Kool G Rap's album Half A Klip, providing the background vocals on the track "On The Rise Again" produced by DJ Premier. She had supposedly completed work on her debut album Walk the Walk due mid 2008.^[2][3] Duff confirmed that this was false; she is not working on or releasing an album at this time.^[4]

Duff was involved in a court battle with Paris Hilton over the song Screwed. Both Duff and Hilton had recorded it in 2004, Duff having planned it for her album, and Hilton for it to be released as her debut single, however after what seemed like Hilton had withdrawn from the fight, she was awarded the song by the court, and Duff was left without it. Even though she won the battle for "Screwed", Hilton released "Stars Are Blind" instead, releasing "Screwed" in Asia only.

Television

Duff hosted the reality show Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods, which searched for the next actress to take over the lead role in Legally Blonde: The Musical where she was previously in the chorus.^[5] She is also an executive producer of the show.

Public image

Duff appeared on the cover of Maxim in January 2006 and is featured in their Girls of Maxim gallery.^[6] Duff and sister Hilary Duff are ranked number two on E!'s "Favorite Famous Sisters".

Filmography

Films

Awards

• Teens Choice Awards 2006 - Nominated - TV Choice Breakout Star For 7th Heaven.

• Teens Choice Awards 2005 - Winner - Choice Breakout Performance, Female For Napolean Dinamite.

• Young Artist Award 1999 - Winner - Best Performance In a TV Movie/pilot/Mini- Series For Adams Family Reunion.

• Razzie Award 2007 - Nominated - Worst Actress For Material Girls.

• Razzie Award 2007 - Nominated - Worst Screen Coulple with Sister Hilary Duff For Material Girls.

Television

Guest appearances

• 1999: The Amanda Show as Girl in crowd
• 2000: Chicago Hope as Jenny
• 2001: Boston Public as Sylvia (two appearances)
• 2002: Lizzie McGuire as Cousin Amy (Three appearances)
• 2003: Third Watch as young Faith Mitchell
• 2004: American Dreams as Shangri- Las (with Hilary Duff)
• 2004: That's So Raven as Katina
• 2004: One on One as Mandy
• 2005: Complete Savages as Jessica
• 2005: Joan of Arcadia as Stevie Marx (three appearances)

Host

• 2008: Legally Blonde - The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods as Host

Musical

• 2006: Hairspray

Discography

Singles

Albums

• Come Around

Soundtracks

Other singles

References

External links

• Haylie Duff at IMDb
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• Haylie Duff cast bio on The CW
• Haylie Duff Online