Lindsay Dee Lohan (born 2 July 1986) is an American actress and pop music singer. Known professionally as Lindsay Morgan Lohan, she started in show business as a child model for magazine and television ads. At age 10, she began her acting career on a soap opera; at 11, she made her motion picture début by playing both twins in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Lohan's breakout role as a leading actress came six years later with Mean Girls, which shone the media spotlight on her professional and personal lives—including her nightlife and her parents' marital and legal struggles.
As an adult, Lohan began to take on more mature roles and projects, including Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion. While filming Herbie: Fully Loaded, Lohan recorded and released Speak in 2004, launching her career in music; her second album was released in 2005.
Lohan was born in New York City and raised in Merrick, Long Island, New York. She is the eldest child of Michael and Dina (née Sullivan) Lohan, both former actors. She has two younger brothers, Michael and Dakota ("Cody"), and a younger sister, Aliana ("Ali"). Lohan—who originally pronounced her name 'lō-han but later settled on 'lō-ən—is of Irish and Italian heritage and was raised Catholic. She and her family have donated time and money to charity projects such as The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Foundation, Save the Children, The United Cerebral Palsy Association, and her own charity organization, Dream Come True.