Child actress Lindsay Lohan was already an experienced performer when she made her feature debut in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Born in New York City, Lohan began modeling at age three. After appearing in numerous TV commercials, Lohan moved to series TV with a role on the daytime serial Another World from 1996 to 1997. Cast as The Parent Trap's scheming twin sisters after a six month search for just the right girl, Lohan succeeded in filling Hayley Mills' shoes, winning over audiences with her pert charm as both the Californian Hallie and the British-raised Annie. She subsequently starred in the Disney TV film Life-Size (2000). Subsequently cast in actress Bette Midler's shortlived sitcom Bette, Lohan took a turn as a teenage gossip columnist (Get a Clue (2002)) before turning up in yet another remake of a Disney classic, Freaky Friday (2003). Lohan kicked off 2004 with her first big starring vehicle, the comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Met with mixed reviews and modest box-office receipts, the film didn't prove to be a huge hit
However, it would only be two months before Lohan finally proved she could carry a winner. The Tina Fey-penned Mean Girls debuted at number one, recouping its budget and then some in its first week of release. Lohan quickly became a tabloid fixture with her fluctuating weight, tales of ongoing debauchery, a string of occasionally high-profile male companions, family drama involving her incarcerated father, and feuds with a variety of other young female celebrities. All of the hullabaloo seemed to have little effect on her work as she starred in Herbie: Fully Loaded for Disney before graduating to more adult fare with Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion where she was very good in her scenes with Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin. Her first shot at an adult romantic comedy, Just My Luck, fell flat at the box office. Undaunted, Lohan set to work on the comedy Georgia Rule, in which she played a rebellious teenage daughter who is hauled off to live with her grandmother for the summer. Ironically, Lohan's behavior during filming was so infamous irrisponsible that director Garry Marshall blasted her in public for holding up shooting. The problems did not stop there for the actress, as just under a year later, she departed the adaptation of playwright Sharman MacDonald's The Best Time of Our Lives where she was poised to play Welsh poet Dylan Tomas' wife Caitlin -- a role eventually filled by Sienna Miller. Lohan also released two albums of pop music, Spark
