ASHLEY TISDALE

'Ashley Michelle Tisdale' (born July 2 1985)^[1] is an American actress and singer.
After appearing in several television roles during the late 1990s and early 2000s, she became known to young audiences for playing Maddie Fitzpatrick on the Disney Channel Original Series ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'' and Sharpay Evans in the Disney Channel Original Movie ''High School Musical''. Tisdale has also pursued a music career and released her debut album ''Headstrong'' on February 6 2007. She also participated in '' and reprised her role as Sharpay Evans in ''High School Musical 2''.

Contents

Personal life

Career

Film and television

Music

Music videos

Filmography

Television

Discography

Albums

Soundtracks

Singles

Music Videos

Other charting songs

Other songs

Soundtracks

Footnotes

External links

Personal life

Tisdale was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey on July 2 1985^[2] to Lisa Morris and Mike Tisdale. Her older sister Jennifer Tisdale is also an actress. Her maternal grandfather is Arnold Morris, the developer of Ginsu Knives; through her grandfather, she is also related to businessman Ron Popeil. She has a maltipoo dog, named Blondie.^[3][4] Tisdale is Jewish on her mother's side and considers herself Jewish.^[5][6] She was discovered by Bill Perlman, who is her current manager, at South Shores Mall, when she was three.^[7] She began acting, appearing in stage productions of '' and ''The Sound of Music'' at the Jewish Community Center of Monmouth County.^[8]

Career

Film and television

During the late 1990s, Tisdale appeared in episodes of several television series, including ''Smart Guy'', ''7th Heaven'', ''Grounded for Life'', ''Boston Public'', ''Strong Medicine'', ''Charmed'', and ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. She had a minor role in the 2001 film ''Donnie Darko'' and she guest starred on ''The Amanda Show'' and recurring roles on the sitcoms ''The Hughleys'', and ''Still Standing''. In 2002, she starred in a TV commercial for Fruit Gushers (notable for the head transformation) "Photo Booth" and her head transformed into an oversized orange. She also starred in a T-Mobile commercial with Catherine Zeta-Jones and was in a Toys r Us commercial with Abigail Breslin. Then, Tisdale was cast in the role of Maddie Fitzpatrick on ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'' after auditioning for the roles of Maddie Fitzpatrick and London Tipton.^[9] As the series became popular, Tisdale became a featured performer on the Disney Channel and performed a voice role in ''Whisper of the Heart''. She was also cast in Disney Channel Original Movie ''High School Musical'', which became a major success for the channel after its premiere on January 20, 2006 Tisdale also auditioned for the role of Erin Ulmer in ''Final Destination 3'' but lost out to Canadian actress Alexz Johnson.
Tisdale originally tried out for Gabriella Montez, but was cast as Sharpay Evans, due to her alto voice, she suited a darker character.^[10] The role required her to perform several songs, including "What I've Been Looking For," "Bop to the Top," and "We're All in This Together." All three managed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Additionally, Tisdale made music history by being the first female artist to ever debut with two songs simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 with "What I've Been Looking For" and "Bop to the Top."^[11] She has also recorded versions of the songs "Some Day My Prince Will Come" and "Kiss The Girl" (including a music video)^[12] for Disney. In addition, she recorded a version of "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" with the other members of the Disney Channel Circle of Stars, and appeared in the ''Disney Channel Games 2006'' as captain of the Green Team. Tisdale is also appearing in the second rendition of the Disney Channel Games this year.
More recently, Tisdale signed a deal with Staples, Inc. to appear in the promotional campaign for the company's "Geared 4 School" sweepstakes in the fall. She will star in ''High School Musical 2'', which premiered on August 17, 2007. Tisdale also in a will have a supporting roll in Phines and Ferb.
Tisdale appeared in the second episode of Season 8 of MTV's ''Punk'd''. The skit was, she went to a children's hospital and sang "Kiss the Girl" to a little boy in a coma. After she sang a few lyrics of the song, the boy woke up. As she was singing, the lyrics were being censored out because MTV did not own the rights to the song. She also appeared in an episode where she helped Ashton Kutcher to punk her good friend and ''High School Musical'' co-star Zac Efron.
Tisdale told JustJared.com during an interview at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards that she will be filming a movie in August. No other information has been given since she stated she's superstitious.^[13]
On July 18, 2007, MTV News confirmed in an article interview with Ashley Tisdale that her August movie will be titled ''Picture This'' in which Tisdale plays an unpopular girl working at Petco in this father/daughter movie. Ashley states she will probably return to her natural brunette hair color for this movie.

Music

Tisdale's first solo album, ''Headstrong'', is distributed by Warner Bros. Records and was released on February 6 2007. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 album charts, selling 64,000 copies.^[14] Her first single was "He Said She Said", written by Jonathan "J.R." Rotem and Evan "Kidd" Bogart, but was pushed back and "Be Good To Me" was released. In January 2007, Tisdale was declared the 2nd Hottest Woman of Pop/R&B by Blender Magazine, which stated: "Tisdale has a gift. Not an angelic voice or a dazzling personality, but an even rarer commodity: millions of 'pre-sold' preteens eager to buy her debut album!"^[15] In March 2007, Tisdale told ''Blender'' that she was drug and alcohol-free, going on to say "my mom really instilled confidence in me, so I'm not somebody who'd be under peer pressure."^[16] Recently a Brazilian newspaper claimed that Ashley's new album ''Headstrong'' sold 23,000 copies in Brazil and over 900,000 copies worldwide.^[17]

Music videos

Ashley has been in two music videos on for "Be Good To Me", off her album ''Headstrong '', which is on the ''High School Musical: The Concert'' DVD. Ashley has also made a music video for "Kiss the Girl", the remake of the song from ''The Little Mermaid'', which can be found on ''The Little Mermaid'' Special Edition DVD. She was also featured in the "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes" (originally from Disney's ''Cinderella'') music video made for Disney Channel, along with several other Disney Channel stars. You can also buy the music videos of "What I've Been Looking For" and "We're All In This Together" from ''High School Musical'' on iTunes. The US iTunes Store also sells the ''High School Musical'' movie and concert version.
Tisdale filmed three music videos for her current album ''Headstrong'' on June 26 ("He Said She Said", "Not Like That" and "Suddenly")^[18].

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	''Picture This (pre production)''	Mandy	Lead Role
	''High School Musical 3 (pre production)''	Sharpay Evans	Walt Disney Pictures
2007	''High School Musical 2''	Sharpay Evans	Disney Channel Original Movie
2006	''High School Musical''	Sharpay Evans	Disney Channel Original Movie
2002	''The Mayor of Oyster Bay''		TV movie
2001	''Donnie Darko''	Kim, the Dorky girl
	''Nathan's Choice''	Stephanie	TV movie
1998	''A Bug's Life''	Lead Blueberry Scout/additional voices	voice over
1995	''Whisper of the Heart''	Yuko Harada	voice over

Television

Year	Title	Role
2005-present	''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody''	Maddie Fitzpatrick
2007	''Punk'd''	Herself	Was Punk'd herself and later came back to punk an old friend and fellow High School Musical castmate: Zac Efron
	''Kim Possible''	Camille Leon	voice over in 2007, episode "Trading Faces" and returned in "Fashion Victim"
	''Late Night With Conan O'Brien''	Herself	Aired on February 8; Guest
	''The Life of Eddie''	Verny
	''Phineas and Ferb''	Candace	voice over
	''Good Morning America''	Herself	Aired on February 6; performed Be Good to Me
	''Regis and Kelly''	Herself	Aired on February 7; performed Be Good to Me
	''Total Request Live''	Herself	Aired on February 7
	''Disney Channel Games 2007''	Herself	Green Team
2006	''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''	Herself
	''Total Request Live''	Herself	Co-host with Miley Cyrus on June 20; guest with Zac Efron
	''Hannah Montana''	Maddie Fitzpatrick	Episode On the Road Again which was part of the That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana special.
	''Disney Channel Games 2006''	Herself	Red team
2003	''Still Standing''	Bonnie	Recurring role
	''George Lopez''	Olivia
	''Grounded for Life''	Leah
	''Strong Medicine''	Sherry Lowenstein
2002	''Malcolm in the Middle''	Girl
	''The Hughleys''	Stephanie	Three episodes
2001	''Charmed''	Runaway Teen	Season 3, Episode 21: "Look Who's Barking"
	''Kate Brasher''	Winona
	''Once and Again''	Marni
	''Bette''	Jessica
2000	''Boston Public''	Carol Prader
	''The Geena Davis Show''	Tracy
	''Movie Stars''	Female Student
	''The Amanda Show''	Number One Fan - Cold-Curer
	''Beverly Hills 90210''	Nicole Jungquist
1997	''7th Heaven''	Janice
	''Smart Guy''	Amy	as Ashley Michelle Tisdale

Discography

Albums

Album Information	'''Headstrong''' ★ Release: February 6, 2007 (U.S.) ★ Label: Warner Bros. Records ★ Peak U.S. Billboard: #5 ★ U.S. Sales: 280,000+ ★ Worldwide Sales: 800,000+[19] ★ RIAA certification: no Certification yet ★ Singles: ★ ★ 2007: "Be Good to Me ★ ★ 2007: "He Said She Said" ★ ★ 2007: "Not Like That" ★ ★ 2007: "Suddenly"

Soundtracks

Album Information
'''High School Musical Soundtrack''' ★ Released: January 10 2006 (U.S.) ★ Label: Walt Disney Records ★ Peak U.S. Billboard: '#1' (U.S. - 2 weeks) ★ U.S. sales: 4,100,000+ ★ RIAA certification: 4x Platinum ★ Singles feat. Ashley Tisdale: ★ ★ 2006: "What I've Been Looking For" ★ ★ 2006: "Stick to the Status Quo" ★ ★ 2006: "Bop to the Top" ★ ★ 2006: "We're All in This Together ★ ★ 2006: "I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"
'''High School Musical 2 Soundtrack''' ★ Released: August 14 2007 (U.S.) ★ Label: Walt Disney Records ★ Peak U.S. Billboard: 1 ★ U.S. sales: 982,482 ★ RIAA certification: ★ ★ 2007: "What Time Is It?" ★ ★ 2007: "Fabulous" ★ ★ 2007: "You Are The Music In Me (Sharpay Version)" ★ ★ 2007: "All for One" ★ ★ 2007: "HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKUAPUA'A"

Singles

Year	Title	Album	Chart positions
			U.S.	Disney	CAN	IRE	NZ	SPA	AUS	CHI	BRA	UK
2006	"What I've Been Looking For" (with Lucas Grabeel)	''High School Musical OST''	35	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Stick to the Status Quo" (with High School Musical Cast)		43	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	74
	"Bop to the Top" (with Lucas Grabeel)		62	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"We're All in this Together" (with High School Musical Cast)		34	—	—	31	14	—	—	44	—	40
	"Kiss The Girl"[20]	''The Little Mermaid Special Edition OST''	81[21]	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Last Christmas"	''Last Christmas - Single''	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2007	"Be Good to Me"	''Headstrong''	80	5	—	—	—	—	—	1	12
	"What Time Is It?"	''High School Musical 2 (Soundtrack)''	6	—	—	10	—	—	—	—	—	20
	"He Said She Said"	''Headstrong''	77	—	2	—	—	—	—	45	52	TBR
	"Not Like That"		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Suddenly"		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Fabulous"	''High School Musical 2 (Soundtrack)''	76	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Music Videos

Main articles: Ashley Tisdale Music Videos

Other charting songs

Year	Title	Album	Chart positions
			U.S.
2007	"Headstrong"	''Headstrong''	121

Other songs

Year	Title	Album
2006	"Some Day My Prince Will Come" (feat. Drew Seeley)	''DisneyMania, Vol. 4''
	"A Dream Is A Wish" (with Disney Channel Circle of Stars)	''DisneyMania, Vol. 4''

Soundtracks

Year	Album
2007	''
2007	''What Time Is It? - Single''
2006	''The Little Mermaid 2006 Special Edition Soundtrack''
	''High School Musical: The Soundtrack''

Footnotes

1. Fact Sheet
2. High School homecoming
3. Background info on Tisdale's maternal family found at the New Yorker
4. Tisdale mentioned her family relation on ''The Jimmy Kimmel Show'', May 9 2006
5. All About Ashley
6. The Jewish Paparazzi - Funny, Tisdale doesn't sound Jewish!
7. About Ashley
8. Celebrity Premiers Video in Deal (2006-07-11)
9. Ashley Tisdale
10. High School Musical Pop-up Edition
11. Chart Beat
12. Ashley Tisdale 'Kiss The Girl' Music Video
13. Ashley Tisdale @ MTV Movie Awards 2007
14. Fall Out Boy Hits 'High' Note With No. 1 Debut
15. High School Musical star tries a more challenging medium: pop songs.
16. Ashley Tisdale's After School Special
17. [1] 'oglobo.Globo.com''
18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Jn7fRgIfk
19. [2]
20. The Little Mermaid DVD
21. http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=44294

External links

★ The Official Ashley Tisdale Site

★ The Official Ashley Tisdale Music Site

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★ Ashley Tisdale at TV.com

★ Ashley Tisdale at MySpace

★ Ashley Tisdale at YouTube