50 Fun Facts About Hilary Duff

In The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Lizzie is mistaken for a pop star on a graduation trip to which city?

Rome was the real backdrop too: the film shot on location there in autumn 2002 and became the first theatrical movie spun off from a Disney Channel series.

Which Hilary Duff song became the theme tune of the MTV reality series Laguna Beach?

Come Clean got a lasting boost from the show, which helped promote the single across America; it went on to become her best-selling song in the United States.

In 2005, Hilary Duff began taking extension-school classes at which famous American university?

Harvard Extension School is one of twelve schools in the university's system, and she enrolled at 17, having been home-schooled since the age of eight because of her acting career.

Mike Comrie, who married Hilary Duff in 2010, was a professional player in which sport?

Ice hockey took Comrie to six NHL clubs, starting with his hometown Edmonton Oilers; he retired in early 2012 after a third hip operation.

Which comedian played Hilary Duff's father, a dad of twelve, in Cheaper by the Dozen?

Steve Martin led the 2003 remake of a 1950 comedy, which took $190 million worldwide on a $40 million budget and earned a sequel two years later.

Hilary Duff's very first studio album, released in October 2002, was a collection of what?

Christmas songs filled Santa Claus Lane, which mixed seasonal covers with guests including her sister Haylie; it went Gold despite peaking at only 154 on the Billboard 200.

Hilary and Haylie Duff's 2006 comedy Material Girls loosely updates a classic novel by which author?

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility was moved to modern Los Angeles, with the Duffs as spoiled cosmetics heiresses left penniless when a scandal hits the family firm.

Which pop superstar was an executive producer of Hilary Duff's 2003 spy comedy Agent Cody Banks?

Madonna's company Maverick Films had acquired the script, and actor Jason Alexander, a fellow executive producer, was originally attached to direct.

Which actress plays the older Sophie, narrating How I Met Your Father to her son from 2050?

Kim Cattrall joined in November 2021 as the future version of Duff's Sophie, telling an unseen son how she met his father back in January 2022.

In A Cinderella Story, Hilary Duff's Sam agrees to meet her pen pal Nomad at which school event?

The Halloween dance does the fairy tale's work: Sam arrives masked as Cinderella, Nomad comes as Prince Charming, and she drops her cell phone instead of a slipper.

On Lizzie McGuire, how are the private thoughts of Hilary Duff's shy heroine revealed to viewers?

A cartoon alter ego, also voiced by Duff, was drawn by animator Debra Solomon from the actress's audition tape and was first imagined as a talking head in the corner of the screen.

Which character, a budding filmmaker, shares a rooftop kiss with Lizzie in The Lizzie McGuire Movie?

Gordo, played by Adam Lamberg, is Lizzie's childhood best friend with a passion for hacky sack; in the film he even takes the blame for her and is sent home early.

In The Lizzie McGuire Movie, which popular ex-best friend has to share a hotel room with Lizzie?

Kate, the queen bee turned frenemy, discovers Lizzie's double life on the trip and agrees to cover for her, which finally thaws their feud.

In The Lizzie McGuire Movie, what does the crowd learn when Paolo's microphone is switched on?

He lip-syncs, the very thing he had accused his singing partner Isabella of, and he flees the stage once the audience hears his real, mediocre voice.

Which song does Lizzie perform on stage in the finale of The Lizzie McGuire Movie?

What Dreams Are Made Of starts as a duet with Isabella, whose singing voice was supplied by Duff's sister Haylie, before Lizzie finishes the number alone.

Which teen pop singer, a boyfriend of Hilary Duff, guest-starred in an episode of Lizzie McGuire?

Aaron Carter and Duff dated on and off for several years from 2001, a romance the tabloids turned into a love triangle with actress Lindsay Lohan.

Hilary Duff urged Disney to move the stalled Lizzie McGuire revival to which streaming service?

Hulu was her pick because Disney+ had restricted the revival, about a 30-year-old Lizzie in New York, to a PG rating; two episodes were filmed before it was scrapped in December 2020.

Which actor played quarterback Austin Ames opposite Hilary Duff in A Cinderella Story?

Chad Michael Murray's Austin is the popular but unhappy school hero hiding behind the screen name Nomad, who wants to be a writer rather than follow the football future his father plans.

Which actress played Fiona, the vain stepmother of Hilary Duff's Sam, in A Cinderella Story?

Jennifer Coolidge's Fiona inherits everything when Sam's father dies in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, but is arrested for inheritance fraud once his hidden will turns up.

Which actor played the teenage CIA spy sent to befriend Hilary Duff's Natalie in Agent Cody Banks?

Frankie Muniz's Cody is a 15-year-old placed in Natalie's prep school by the CIA, which even does his chores and homework so he has time to learn how to talk to girls.

Which single, with a video about pranking an ex-boyfriend, gave Hilary Duff her first Hot 100 entry?

So Yesterday peaked at number 42 in America but did better abroad, reaching number two in Canada and the top ten in Britain, Australia and France.

The video for which Hilary Duff single doubled as the television commercial for her first perfume?

With Love was filmed at San Francisco's City Hall with Kellan Lutz as the stranger trailing her, and the single climbed to number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Which 2003 Hilary Duff album rose to number one on the Billboard 200 in its second week on sale?

Metamorphosis sold 203,000 copies in its first week and five million worldwide, making Duff, then 15, the sixth solo artist to top that chart before turning 18.

Which longtime collaborator co-wrote almost every track on Hilary Duff's 2007 album Dignity?

Kara DioGuardi helped Duff turn her parents' divorce and a breakup into an electropop record that critics praised, even though it sold less than her earlier albums.

Hilary Duff's 2008 single Reach Out is built on a sample of Personal Jesus by which British band?

Depeche Mode's hit underpins the track, released on the compilation Best of Hilary Duff, and it became her third single in a row to top the US club chart.

Which English singer-songwriter wrote the breakup song Tattoo for Hilary Duff's 2015 album?

Ed Sheeran's song is, as Duff described it, about a relationship ending and what it leaves behind; the same album carries writing credits from Tove Lo.

Hilary Duff covered Little Lies, a hit for which band, to mark season two of Younger in 2016?

Fleetwood Mac's 1987 hit got the Duff treatment in January 2016, and her cover later appeared on the show's soundtrack album alongside a cast version of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5.

Joel Madden, who dated Hilary Duff for two years in the mid-2000s, fronts which pop-punk band?

Good Charlotte's singer also worked on her compilation Most Wanted, and their November 2006 split fed into the songs she wrote for her next studio album.

Which co-writer of Zedd's Grammy-winning hit Clarity did Hilary Duff marry in December 2019?

Matthew Koma had already written and produced tracks on her 2015 album, and he went on to produce her 2026 return, Luck... or Something, co-writing every song with her.

Which Canadian rock band plays a concert cameo in Hilary Duff's musical drama Raise Your Voice?

Three Days Grace's gig sets the plot in motion: Terri sneaks her grounded brother Paul out to see them, and he is killed by a drunk driver on the way home.

What is the day job of Sophie Tompkins, Hilary Duff's hopeless romantic in How I Met Your Father?

Photographer Sophie leads a spin-off that ran for two seasons from January 2022, with two of her friends living in Ted and Marshall's old apartment from How I Met Your Mother.

Which actress starred opposite Hilary Duff on Younger as Liza Miller, a divorced mother of 40?

Sutton Foster's Liza restarts her career by passing as a twenty-something, an idea sparked when a tattoo artist named Josh mistakes her for one.

On Younger, Hilary Duff's ambitious 26-year-old Kelsey Peters is a rising star in which industry?

Book publishing is the show's world: Kelsey is an editor at Empirical Press who befriends her new colleague Liza, and later heads the imprint Millennial.

Hilary Duff joined which teen drama in 2009 as Olivia Burke, a film star enrolling at NYU?

Gossip Girl gave her a recurring role in its third season even though she had turned down 90210 to avoid teen shows, and the part won her a Teen Choice Award.

Hilary Duff was born in 1987 in which Texas city?

Houston remained her father's home when her mother took Hilary and Haylie to California in 1993, where the girls spent years auditioning and making commercials.

Which US retailer exclusively sold Stuff by Hilary Duff, the clothing line she launched in 2004?

Target carried the brand from 2004 until 2007, while Zellers sold it in Canada and Kmart in Australia; the range ran from clothes and shoes to cosmetics and jewelry.

What is the title of Hilary Duff's 2010 debut novel, a best-seller co-written with Elise Allen?

Elixir follows Clea Raymond, who spots the same mysterious man in the background of all her pictures; it opened a trilogy completed by Devoted and True.

Hilary Duff gave $250,000 and more than 2.5 million meals to victims of which 2005 hurricane?

Katrina's victims also got a visit: in August 2006 she travelled to a New Orleans elementary school and handed out meals with the charity USA Harvest.

Hilary Duff won a Worst Actress Razzie for playing which real-life 1960s star in a 2019 horror film?

Sharon Tate's sister Debra publicly disapproved of the film, which imagines the actress having premonitions of her murder; Duff also served as an executive producer.

What did a ten-year-old Hilary Duff play in her first starring role, 1998's Casper Meets Wendy?

A witch, specifically Harvey Comics' Wendy the Good Little Witch, who befriends the friendly ghost; the film went straight to video six days before her eleventh birthday.

In Cadet Kelly, which group does Hilary Duff's Kelly join after first mocking its members as robots?

The drill team enters her life as a punishment: found guilty in cadet court, she is sentenced to shine its uniforms, and ends up liking the squad enough to try out.

In The Perfect Man, which actress plays Jean, the mother Hilary Duff's Holly invents an admirer for?

Heather Locklear's Jean moves towns after every heartbreak, so Holly fakes love notes and orchids from an invented suitor modelled on a friend's uncle, played by Chris Noth.

Which actor co-wrote and starred in War, Inc., the 2008 satire featuring Hilary Duff as a pop star?

John Cusack plays a hitman posing as a trade-show producer, and he called the film a spiritual cousin of his earlier assassin comedy Grosse Pointe Blank.

Producer Stan Rogow said the visual design of Lizzie McGuire was inspired by which film?

Run Lola Run was the model for the show's look, according to Rogow, who developed the series from a script by Terri Minsky under the working title What's Lizzie Thinking?

As children, Hilary Duff and her sister took part in a touring BalletMet production of which ballet?

The Nutcracker run in San Antonio followed the acting, singing and ballet classes their mother had encouraged, and in 1993 she moved with the girls to California.

Which actress played the strict chaperone Angela Ungermeyer in The Lizzie McGuire Movie?

Alex Borstein's Ungermeyer is also the students' future high school principal, and she ends the film flirting with Sergei, who has just quit working for Paolo.

Hilary Duff's five-million-selling 2003 album was credited with reviving which record label?

Hollywood Records had been cutting costs after two years of falling CD sales; Duff's jump from Disney star to singer was later seen as the blueprint for Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez.

Hilary Duff's older sister Haylie played Summer Wheatly in which 2004 comedy film?

Napoleon Dynamite was Haylie's first feature film, coming after her run as Amy Sanders, cousin of Lizzie's rival, on her little sister's Disney Channel show.

Younger, co-starring Hilary Duff, became the longest-running original series of which cable network?

TV Land aired six seasons before the seventh and last moved to streaming on Paramount+, and a planned spin-off for Duff's Kelsey was dropped in 2021.

Hilary Duff's feature film debut, Human Nature, cast her as the childhood self of whose character?

Patricia Arquette starred in the 2001 comedy, which gave Duff a small big-screen start in the same year that Lizzie McGuire launched on television.