Haylie Duff Biography

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NAME: Haylie Duff
OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress, Musician
BIRTH DATE: February 19, 1985 (Age: 28)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Houston, Texas
Full Name: Haylie Katherine Duff
ZODIAC SIGN: Pisces

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Actress and musician Haylie Duff is Hillary Duff’s older sister. Haylie earned national fame as Summer Wheatley in the 2004 cult classic Napoleon Dynamite.

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Fusing her television and stage experiences, in 2008 Duff produced and hosted the MTV reality show Legally Blonde—The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods. Duff guided contestants through a competition to play the part of Elle Woods in the Broadway production of the show.

Interests and Recent Work

Besides acting, Duff has also dabbled in music, modeling and cooking. She wrote several songs on her sister Hilary's albums Metamorphosis, Hilary Duff and Dignity. As a singer, Haylie Duff has performed songs on the soundtracks of The Lizzie McGuire Movie, A Cinderella Story and Material Girls. Duff has also forayed into the modeling world. She appeared on the cover of Maxim in January 2006 and landed on that magazine's 2007 list of the world's 100 most beautiful women. Despite her slim figure, Duff says that she loves to eat and cook, and she writes her own food blog in her spare time. On her blog, Real Girl's Kitchen, Duff shares her favorite dishes and original recipes "for real girls, who love real food." She is dating fellow actor Nick Zano.

Fully emerged from her younger sister's shadow, Haylie Duff's career continues its upward trajectory. She stars in two films, Tug and Slightly Single in L.A., scheduled for release in 2010. Still, the Duff sisters insist that their friendship is more important than either of their careers. Duff attributes their enduring great relationship to the way their parents forbade them from fighting or competing as kids. She recalls, "Everyone thinks siblings would be jealous over each other and fighting, but my dad always said, 'If you ever fight over a part or cry over a part, you guys have to come home!'" They haven't had to come home yet.