Miley Ray Syrus

Miley Ray Cyrus was born on 23 November 1992. Now she is a popular American actress and singer, daughter of the country music performer Billy Ray Cyrus.

Miley Cyrus grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. Her parents gave her unusual name - Destiny Hope - maybe feeling her great prospective future. In childhood the girl got the nickname Miley (derivative of Smiley - smile) due to her cheerful, friendly character. In 2008 Syrus officially changed her name to Miley Ray.

Her first debut secondary role was in Tim Burton's tragicomedy Big Fish where she was a 8-year-old girl Ruthie.

Syrus became a world-known star at the age of 12 due to her key role in the Walt Disney series 'Hanna Montana'. She performed the role of Miley Stewart, an ordinary American school girl, who changes in the evening into a famous pop-singer Hanna Montana. She sang most of the songs in this series herself. The series was showed to the public for the first time in 2006 and was a success.

Syrus's solo musical debut took place in June 2007, when Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records labels released double album Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus, half of which contained soundtracks for 'Hanna Montana', and the second part consisted of songs performed by Miley and not connected with her role in the series. In July 2008 Miley released her second album (now it was not connected with Hanna Montana) under the name Breakout. It was on top of American, Canadian and Australian hit-parades.

Other films where Miley acted are 'Doc' (2001 and 2003), 'High School Musical 2' (2007), she sounded the cartoon film 'Volt' and 'Dubbing actors', 'The Emperor's New School'. On the 2nd of April 2010 the new drama 'The Last Song' is to be released, Miley performs the role of a girl-teenager with usual problems of growing. It is her first serious work after Hanna Montana.

In April 2008 Syrus headed the Forbes list of the richest children and teenagers from 8 to 16 years.