Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan is an American actress and singer whose career has produced multiple defining American teen-comedy roles, plus substantial public visibility through tabloid coverage of her late-2000s personal-life difficulties. She was born Lindsay Dee Lohan on July 2, 1986, in The Bronx, New York City, to Michael Lohan, a former Wall Street trader, and Dina Lohan, a former singer-dancer turned show-business manager. She started modeling at age three at the Ford Models agency.

Her breakthrough came at age 11 in Disney's The Parent Trap (1998) — the Nancy Meyers remake of the 1961 Hayley Mills original. Her dual-role performance as separated twin sisters Hallie Parker and Annie James established her as one of the leading American child actresses of the late 1990s. The film grossed $92 million worldwide.

Her 2003–2004 teen-comedy peak — Freaky Friday (2003, opposite Jamie Lee Curtis) and Mean Girls (2004, the Tina Fey-scripted high-school comedy in which she played Cady Heron opposite Rachel McAdams's Regina George) — established her as the defining American teen-film actress of the mid-2000s. Mean Girls grossed $130 million worldwide and has been continuously cited as one of the formative American teen comedies of the 21st century.

Her late-2000s personal-life difficulties — including multiple DUI arrests, substance-abuse rehab stays, and a 2010 jail sentence — shaped her tabloid coverage through 2007–2013. Her 2010s and 2020s career renaissance has produced Netflix's Falling for Christmas (2022), Irish Wish (2024), and Our Little Secret (2024). She married financier Bader Shammas in 2022 and the couple has one son.

Her name Lindsay derives from the Old English place-name meaning "Lincoln island" or "Lincolnshire wetland." Lindsay was a leading American girls' name through the 1980s and 1990s.