Lindsay Lohan, Child Star

A gifted actress, Lindsay Lohan was born in New York City on July 2, 1986 and raised on Long Island, NY.
Lohan was already a fresh-faced TV advertising star by age 3 and appeared in national commercials for such name brands as Wendy's and Pizza Hut. The young actress by age 10 was appearing in her first full-time acting stint playing Ali Fowler in the NBC soap opera Another World.
Movies followed, with an auspicious debut playing twins in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Following up with a string of Disney Channel TV movies, Lohan's movie career continued its upward spiral in the 2002 Disney-made vehicle, Freaky Friday, a major comedy hit for Lohan who appeared alongside Jamie Lee Curtis as a mother and daughter who wake up in each other's bodies.
That same year, Lohan launched her music career with a five-album deal with Estefan Enterprises. In 2004, she took the lead role for another of Disney's recent hits, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen which also opened to critical acclaim.
Lohan scored another hit with her appearance in Mean Girls for Paramount Studios. She returned to Disney for her next role as a race car driver in the comedy Herbie: Fully Loaded in 2005, and appeared alongside the likes of Meryl Streep and other stars in Robert Altman's Prairie Home Companion.
 Lindsay Lohan as a pole stripper in "I Know Who Killed Me" won Worst Actress at the 2008 Razzie Awards.
However, Lohan proved no exception when it came to an already-familiar tale of a Hollywood child star stumbling into adulthood.
In early 2006, Lohan frankly admitted to dabbling in drugs and battling with bulimia in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine.
Lohan later made tabloid headlines throughout the year for her party girl antics, resulting in a blistering letter from Georgia Rule movie producer James G. Robinson castigating her for "discourteous, irresponsible and unprofessional" behavior.
The party-loving young star finally admitted to her battle with alcoholism and was regularly attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. By January 2007, Lohan was admitted to a rehab center in Los Angeles, but by spring was involved in a suspected drunk driving incident and arrested by Beverly Hills police. The crash was Lohan's third accident in two years.