Ashley Tisdale

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Ashley Michelle Tisdale (born July 2, 1985) is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series. The High School Musical series became a successful franchise which included two television films, a feature movie, a spin-off and numerous soundtrack albums.

The popularity earned by Tisdale in High School Musical led her to sign a solo record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 2006. Her debut album Headstrong, was released in February 2007, and debuted at number five in the U.S. chart and sold 64,000 copies in the first week. It was later certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. A second studio album, Guilty Pleasure, was released in 2009.

Tisdale owns a production company and has worked as an executive producer in movies which included the ABC Family television film Picture This. Tisdale has a prominent voice role as Candace Flynn in Disney Channel’s Phineas & Ferb, a cartoon which became television’s most-watched animated series among kids and tweens and had been met with acclaim by critics. In 2009, she was cast in her first major broadcast role in The CW’s television series Hellcats as Savannah Monroe, an intense and very religious cheerleader.

At the age of three, Tisdale met her current manager, Bill Perlman, at a New Jersey mall. He sent her to numerous auditions for commercials, resulting in her placement in more than 100 national network TV ads as a kid. She began her theatrical career by appearing in Gypsy: A Musical Fable and The Sound of Music at Monmouth County’s Jewish Community Center.

At the age of eight, she was cast to play the part of Cosette in a national touring production of the musical Les Misérables. When I was little, I saw the play Les Misérables on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen so I went to my manager and told him I wanted to be in it, said Ashley Tisdale in an interview to News day in 2007. She also claims to have had only a single singing lesson before landing the role. Ashley Tisdale toured for two years on Les Miserables before landing a role in an international touring production of Annie in Korea. At the age of twelve, Ashley Tisdale song at the White House for President Bill Clinton

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ashley Tisdale had minor roles in several television shows such as The Hughleys, Smart Guy, 7th Heaven, Boston Public and Bette and in the feature films A Bug’s Life and Donnie Darko. During this time, she simultaneously worked as a Ford Model. For her role in Boston Public, she received a 2000 Young Artist Award nomination for Best Guest Performance In a TV drama.