Ashley Tisdale 4ever

Ashley Tisdale 4ever The High School Musical series became a successful franchise which included two television films, a feature movie, a spin-off and numerous soundtrack albums.

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 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.[2][3][4] 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. Contents [hide]
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 1997–2006
2.2 2007–2009
2.3 2010 onwards
3 Musical style
4 Public image and personal life
5 Filmography
5.1 Films
5.2 Television
6 Discography
7 Awards and nominations
8 References
9 External links


Early lifeTisdale was born in West Deal, Monmouth County, New Jersey on July 2, 1985,[5] 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 related to businessman Ron Popeil.[6] She grew up in Ocean Township. She is Jewish on her mother's side and was raised with "a little bit of both" of her parents' religions.[7]

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[8]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.[9] She began her theatrical career by appearing in Gypsy: A Musical Fable and The Sound of Music at Monmouth County's Jewish Community Center.[5][10]

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.[8] She also claims to have had only a single singing lesson before landing the role.[8] Tisdale toured for two years on Les Misérables[11] before landing a role in an international touring production of Annie[9] in Korea.[12] At the age of twelve, Tisdale sang at the White House for President Bill Clinton.[5]

Career1997–2006
Tisdale performing at the High School Musical: The Concert tour in 2006.In the late 1990s and early 2000s, 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.[9] During this time, she simultaneously worked as a Ford Model.[6] For her role in Boston Public, she received a 2000 Young Artist Award nomination for "Best Guest Performance In a TV drama".[13]

In 2004, she was cast as the teenage candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, which premiered in March 2005 and ended in 2008.[6] She later won her first award at the UK Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for "Best TV Actress", due to her performance as Fitzpatrick.[14][6]

Although the producers of the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical did not initially consider her because of her "good-girl image" on The Suite Life, Tisdale was eventually cast as the popular, narcissistic high school student Sharpay Evans in the 2006 film.[8] High School Musical became Disney Channel's most watched movie that year, with 7.7 million viewers in its US premiere broadcast.[15] The soundtrack, in which Tisdale lent her vocals for several songs, became the top-selling album in the United States that year.[16] Tisdale became the first female artist to debut with two songs simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "What I've Been Looking For" and "Bop to the Top", both tracks from the film's soundtrack.[9] Due to the popularity earned by Tisdale through her performance in High School Musical, Warner Bros. Records signed her for a recording contract in July 2006 and she started working on her debut album.[17]

2007–2009
Tisdale performing at the opening of the first Microsoft Store in Scottsdale, Arizona, in October 2009.Headstrong is Tisdale's US Gold-certified[18] debut album, released in February 2007 via Warner Bros,[19] which debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, with 64,000 copies sold in that week.[19] "Be Good to Me" was released as the album's first single in the December, 2006 and "He Said She Said" was released as the second, in September, 2007. In 2008, "Not Like That" and "Suddenly" were released as singles in a selective number of countries that did not include North America.[20][21] A music DVD entitled There's Something About Ashley followed the release of her debut album, with a three-song trilogy comprising music videos and a documentary about the creation of Headstrong.[22]

The success of the first High School Musical film led Tisdale to reprise the role in the 2007 sequel High School Musical 2. She lent vocals for several tracks in the film's soundtrack[8] and her performance in High School Musical 2 was critically acclaimed by many media outlets such as The Hollywood Reporter.[23][24][25] Even more successful than the first film, High School Musical 2 became the most-watched cable-television movie, receiving 17 million viewers on its premiere night.[26] Also in 2007, Tisdale was given the voice role of Candace Flynn, the series' secondary antagonist, in Phineas and Ferb and made a vocal contribution to the show's 2009 soundtrack.[27] The cartoon became television's most-watched animated series among kids and tweens[2] and had very positive reviews.[3][4]

As a producer,[28] Tisdale formed her own production company in 2008 and named it Blondie Girl Productions.[29] Tisdale had her first lead role in the 2008 ABC Family Original Movie Picture This as Mandy Gilbert, an unpopular and bullied teenager, and she also served as the executive producer of the film,[30] which captured 4.3 million total viewers in its debut night.[31]

Tisdale reprised her role as Sharpay Evans in the 2008 Walt Disney Pictures feature film High School Musical 3: Senior Year.[6] Her performance in the film earned her an MTV Movie Award for "Breakthrough Performance Female" in 2009.[32] and acclaim by critics including Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly, who labeled her one of film's breakout stars and said her portrayal of Evans makes "narcissism a goofy, bedazzled pleasure",[33] and Mark Kermode, who said Tisdale is 2008's "best supporting actress".[34] High School Musical 3 earned $42 million in its domestic opening weekend, which became the biggest opening for a musical film.[35]

Her second studio album, Guilty Pleasure, was released in 2009.[36] Described by Tisdale as a "rocker and edgier" album,[37] it generated mixed reviews, with a 54% rating on Metacritic,[38] and Billboard claimed the album "doesn't give the singer room to comfortably let loose".[39] Guilty Pleasure debuted at number twelve on the Billboard 200, selling 25,000 copies in its first week, archiving a low commercial performance in comparison with her debut album.[40] The song "It's Alright, It's OK" was released as the album's lead single in April in airplay and digital formats[37] and a second single, "Crank It Up", was later released in October.[41]


Tisdale during the filming of the TV series Hellcats in 2010Tisdale starred in the 2009 20th Century Fox family feature film Aliens in the Attic as Bethany Pearson,[42] the elder sister of the family and although she is credited as one of the main characters, The New York Times said Tisdale "spends much of the film off screen".[43] The film was a minor success in box office, grossing $60 million worldwide.[44]

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West Deal, NJ

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