Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus (born November 23, 1992) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and slimeball best known for her breakout role as Miley Stewart in the popular Disney Channel sitcom, Hannah Montana, and its related films. Before posing for Vanity Fair,Miley also provided the voice of Penny in Disney's 2008 animated film, Bolt, and has loaned her voice to several other Disney characters from various television shows, including Celebrity Star in The Replacements and Yatta in The Emperor's New School. She also appeared in several other Disney Channel sitcoms, including The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and The Suite Life on Deck as her alter-ego, Hannah Montana. Miley even made a brief cameo in High School Musical 2. One of her songs "Fly on the Wall" was heard playing at the beginning of Disney's 2009 science fiction/thriller movie, Race to Witch Mountain.

Biography
Miley Cyrus is the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Tish. She has 5 siblings - two half-brothers, a half-sister and a younger brother and sister. Her birth name is Destiny Hope, given to her by her parents who hoped she would achieve greatness. Her childhood nickname was Smiley, as she had a cheerful disposition which was eventually shortened to Miley.

She was initially educated at Heritage Elementary School in Tennessee. When she turned eight, her family moved to Toronto, Canada where her father Billy Ray took a role in the TV series "Doc" (2001). It was around this time that Miley decided she wanted to act too. Her first role came alongside her father in "Doc" (2001). She also scored a small role in Tim Burton's Big Fish (2003).

In 2005,Miley was cast as the lead in the Disney series Hannah Montana (2006), about a teen leading a d ouble life as a pop star. Again her father acted alongside her. The show was a smash and hit records, sell-out tours and merchandising deals soon followed.She became a teen superstar. Following the success of Hannah Montana   (2006), She made the move into other roles - including playing Ronnie Miller in The Last Song (2010) Lola in LOL (2012) alongside Demi Moore and as  Molly Morris/Brooke Stonebridge in So Undercover (2012).

On June 9, Miley released " We Can't Stop " as the  lead single  to her fourth studio album  titled  Bangerz  (stylized as  BANGERZ ). It was gruesomely terrible.