Hilary Duff, the actress cum singer was born on September 28, 1987 in Houston, Texas, United States of America. Her full name is Hilary Ann Duff and she is called Hil by closed ones. Her father, Robert Erhard Duff has a chain of convenience stores and mother, Susan Duff is a housewife. Hilary Duff has an elder sister Hailey Duff who is also an actress cum singer. As of education, she was home-schooled since the age of 10. It was mother who encouraged Hilary Duff to pursue acting class along with her sister Hailey Duff. Hilary Duff joined Cecchetti ballet classes. When she became six, she performed for the first time that too with her sister Hailey who was then eight, in the Nutcracker with the Columbus BalletMet. That was Duff sisters’ first step in the journey towards acting career. In search of greener pasture of opportunities Hilary Duff along with her sister and mother moved to California leaving father back in Houston to take care of business. Though she waited few years doing auditions, her passion for acting and hard work paid. Initially they appeared in few television commercials.

Hilary Duff’s acting career started with minor role in ‘True Women’ (1997) and as an extra in 1998. She played a young witch, Wendy in the film ‘Casper meets Wendy’ (1998). Hilary Duff got the Young Artist Award for her supporting role in ‘The Soul Collector’, a television film. She started to taste fame after acting as one of the children in pilot episode of ‘Daddio’. She was rejected before it aired and that made her to think again about this career. But later Hilary Duff got the title role in the Children television series, ‘Lizzie McGuire’. Her fame shot up and even the critic Richard Huff called her, ‘a 2002 version of Annette Funicello’.

Hilary Duff also handled the title role in a feature film ‘The Lizzie McGuire Movie’ (2003). She also acted in ‘Chicago Hope’ (2000), ‘Cadet Kelly’ (2002), ‘Joan of Arcadia’ (2005) etc. Hilary Duff also appeared in ‘The George Lopez Show’ in 2003 and 2005. She guest starred in ‘Rebelde’ and on ‘The Andy Milonakis Show’. Hilary Duff acted with her sister Hailey Duff in ‘American Dreams’ (2003) and ‘Material Girls’ (2006). She acted in several other films including ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ (2003),’ Agent Cody Banks’ (2003), ‘Hilary Duff: All Access Pass’ (2003), ‘A Cinderella Story’ (2004), ‘Raise your Voice’ (2004), and ‘The Perfect Man’ (2005) where she had major roles. Hilary Duff won Young Artist Awards: Best Young Ensemble in a Feature Film for Cheaper by the Dozen. Her upcoming projects are ‘War’, ‘Greta’ and ‘Safety Glass’.

Hilary Duff’s career in music world started with ‘Santa Claus Lane’ (2002) a Christmas song collection, ‘Tell Me a Story (About the Night Before)’, the track ‘Santa Claus Lane’, ‘What Christmas Should Be’, ‘Why Not’, ‘So Yesterday’, the Laguna Beach theme song ‘Come Clean’, ‘Little Voice’, DisneyMania 2, ‘Circle of Life’, ‘Our Lips Are Sealed’, ‘Fly’ and ‘Someone’s Watching over Me’. Hilary Duff also sang in ‘Lizzie McGuire’ and The Lizzie McGuire Movie. She also conducted tours like Metamorphosis Club Tour, Most Wanted tour and Dignity tour. Her albums are ‘Metamorphosis’, ‘Hilary Duff’, ‘Most Wanted’ and 'Dignity'. In her life she dated with singers like Aaron Carter and Joel Madden. Recently she was seen with NHL player Mike Comrie and it is heard that he gave $100,000 worth car on her 20th birthday.

Hilary Duff, just like any teenager is crazy about dresses, shoes and other accessories. Also, this 5' 4" teen queen made her career in this young age! In 2004, Hilary Duff also started a clothing line, Stuff, which later accommodated furniture, fragrances and jewelry. Even though she is busy with her career, she finds time to indulge in her hobbies like swimming, tumbling and roller-blading. Hilary Duff is also known for her charity activities. In 2004, she became international representative of KID with A Cause, an organization worked for the welfare of poverty-stricken children. Hilary Duff donated a part of ticket sales of her concert to Tsunami Relief Fund also for the Hurricane Katrina victims. Hilary Duff is satisfied with the present life getting support from her family, friends and fans.