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Aly Michalka

Aly Michalka

Highest Rated: 85% Easy A (2010)

Lowest Rated: 3% The Roommate (2011)

Birthday: Mar 25, 1989

Birthplace: Torrance, California, USA

Alyson Renae Michalka was born on March 25, 1989 in Torrance, CA. Raised in a strict Christian household along with her sister Amanda, the future star learned how to play the piano at five and the guitar at 13. As a young girl, the curly-haired and pouty-lipped Michalka began acting in local church play productions, and made her television debut on the futuristic Disney Channel series, "Phil of the Future." She played a bubbly teen named Keely whose best friend Phil (Ricky Ullman) and his quirky family members were visitors from the year 2121. Michalka made her television movie debut on the kid-friendly network when she starred in "Now You See It " (Disney Channel, 2005), playing an aspiring reality TV producer who befriends a young magician (Johnny Pacar). Just when Michalka's acting career blossomed, she took on another ambitious project. Alongside her younger sister Amanda, the duo formed the pop/rock music group, Aly & AJ, and released their debut album Into the Rush in 2005. The album, certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, yielded the hits "Rush" and "Chemicals React." The group's second album Insomniatic fared even better on the charts, thanks to the lead single, "Potential Breakup Song," which became a heartbreak anthem for millions of teen girls. The talented sisters collaborated out of the recording studio as well. They also co-starred in the Disney Channel movie "Cow Belles" as a pair of spoiled heiresses who trade in their handbags and stilettos for hairnets and aprons in order to save their father's dairy business. Such projects in music and acting turned Michalka and her sister into teen superstars alongside fellow Disney Channel discoveries like Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. Like them, Michalka was quite vocal about her Christian faith and upbringing. Aly & AJ's music played not only on Top 40 radio but also on Christian rock stations. The sisters stirred up minor controversy after a 2006 interview with Blender magazine by proclaiming, "Evolution is silly. Monkeys? Um, no." In the same interview, the Michalka siblings said that even though their music comes from a Christian standpoint, they did intend to preach their religion to anyone else.In an effort to prove they had matured and evolved since their debut album, Aly & AJ announced in 2008 that the group had changed its name to 78Violet. The sisters also ventured into solo projects, including Michalka's starring role opposite "High School Musical" (2006) star Vanessa Hudgens in the coming-of-age film, "Bandslam" (2009). Michalka played a popular cheerleader who joins a struggling indie rock band made up of her school's outsiders. She further pushed away from her Disney Channel persona with a pair of more mature projects in 2010 - the dark teen comedy "Easy A," a feature film about a high school student (Emma Stone) who uses a malicious rumor to advance her social status, and the television comedy/drama "Hellcats." In the latter, Michalka starred as Marti, a tough-as-nails pre-law college student in Memphis, TN who loses her scholarship and ends up joining her university's cheer team. Her character finds not everything is pep and pizzazz in cheerleading after clashing with team captain Savannah, played by another Disney alum, Ashley Tisdale. The series was based on journalist Kate Torgovnick's 2008 book, Cheer: Inside the Secret World of College Cheerleaders.

Highest rated movies

85% 77% Easy A 82% 64% Bandslam 80% 57% Weepah Way for Now
3% 27% The Roommate

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 60% Sand Dollar Cove Elli (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lears Regan Lear (Character) - 2017
80% 57% Weepah Way for Now Elle (Character),
Producer
- 2015
No Score Yet 62% Sequoia Riley (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet 44% Crazy Kind of Love Janeen (Character) - 2012
3% 27% The Roommate Tracy (Character) $37.3M 2011
85% 77% Easy A Rhiannon (Character) $58.4M 2010
82% 64% Bandslam Charlotte (Character) $5.2M 2009
No Score Yet 56% Super Sweet 16: The Movie Taylor (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 62% Cow Belles Taylor Callum (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet 63% Now You See It... Allyson Miller (Character) - 2005

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 67% The Good Doctor Lexi Dunn (Guest Star) 2022
No Score Yet 71% MacGyver Frankie (Guest Star) 2017 2021
92% 69% iZombie Peyton Charles (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2015-2019
63% 98% Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television Amy (Character) 2017 2019
23% 52% Anger Management Lauren (Guest Star) 2014
65% 66% Two and a Half Men Brooke (Guest Star) 2013-2014
56% 76% Breaking In Heather Young (Guest Star) 2012
No Score Yet 82% CSI: New York Unknown (Guest Star) 2011
65% 44% Hellcats Unknown (Character) 2010-2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lopez Tonight Guest 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wendy Williams Show Guest 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet Phil of the Future Keely Teslow (Character) 2004-2006