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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Ashley Michelle early life

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 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.
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 Candance 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 criticsIn 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.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
o 2.1 1997–2006
o 2.2 2007–2009
o 2.3 2010 onwards
* 3 Musical style
* 4 Public image and personal life
* 5 Filmography
o 5.1 Films
o 5.2 Television
* 6 Discography
* 7 Awards and nominations
* 8 References
* 9 External links
Early life
Tisdale was born in West Deal, Monmouth County, New Jersey on July 2, 1985, to Lisa née Morris and Mike Tisdale, the manager of a construction company. Her elder sister, Jennifer Tisdale, is an actress, and her maternal grandfather, Arnold Morris, developed the Ginsu Knives. Through her grandfather, Tisdale is also related to businessman Ron Popeil. She grew up in Ocean Township. She is Jewish on her mother's side and considers herself Jewish
She had a head full of beautiful curly hair, huge eyes and when she looked at me she made the hugest of smiles.
Bill Perlman, Asbury Park Press
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. 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 Tisdale in an interview to Newsday in 2007. also claims to have had only a single singing lesson before landing the role Tisdale toured for two years on Les Misérables landing a role in an international touring production of Annie At the age of twelve, Tisdale sang at the White House for President Bill Clinton
Career