Name Lalaine Vergara-Paras Residence Los Angeles Height 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) Nationality American Role Actress | Other names LaLaineLalaine Paras Parents Elena Vergara Years active 1999–present | |
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Full Name Lalaine Vergara-Paras Occupation Actress, singer-songwriter, writer Albums Inside Story, DisneyMania 3 in Concert, Haunted Siblings Cristina Paras, Marian Paras, Marian Vergara, Cristina Vergara, Francisco Vergara, Francisco Paras Cousins Garret Paras, Miracel Paras, Jared Paras Movies and TV shows Similar People Adam Lamberg, Jake Thomas, Ashlie Brillault, Hilary Duff, Clayton Snyder | ||
Lalaine
Lalaine Vergara-Paras (born June 3, 1987), is an American actress, singer-songwriter and writer of Filipino descent. She is best known for her roles as Kate in Annie, Miranda Sanchez in Lizzie McGuire, and Abby Ramirez in You Wish. She has been pursuing a music career as a child, appearing in a Broadway production of Les Miserables when she was nine years old, and signing to Warner Bros Records after Lizzie McGuire and You Wish ended.. She was also a member of the band Vanity Theft from 2010 to 2011.
Contents
- Lalaine
- LaLaine NEW SONG Always Too Good To Be True
- Early life
- Acting career
- Lizzie McGuire
- Music career
- Other Songs
- Leaked Songs
- Filmography
- References
LaLaine - NEW SONG! - Always Too Good To Be True
Early life
Lalaine Vergara-Paras was born in Burbank, California to Filipino parents; her mother, Lilia Vergara Paras is originally from Batangas, and her father from Pampanga. She has three older siblings; Marian, Francisco and Cristina. She spent most of her early years in Burbank and Sherman Oaks, CA, then joined the Broadway National Touring cast of Les Misérables as Little Cosette. After the tour Lalaine and her mother resided in Sherman Oaks, CA.
Acting career
Lalaine is normally credited by her first name only. She is commonly known for playing Lizzie's best friend, Miranda on Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire, alongside Hilary Duff. She reprised this role on the pilot of a spin-off series What's Stevie Thinking? about Miranda's younger sister, but this did not air in 2005 as originally expected and was scrapped.
Lalaine's acting career began when she was cast in the Broadway production of Les Misérables in the roles of Young Cosette and Eponine.
She also played orphan "Kate" in the Wonderful World of Disney ABC-TV version of the movie Annie. She starred alongside A.J. Trauth and Spencer Breslin in the Disney Channel original film You Wish! as Abby. Lalaine portrayed "Chloe", a young Slayer-In-Training who commits suicide, on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In 2009, she appeared in the film Royal Kill along with Eric Roberts and Pat Morita. In 2010, Lalaine also appeared in Easy A starred by Emma Stone in a small role as a gossiping girl.
In late July 2011, Lalaine was featured in a Shane Dawson video titled "Urban Legendz" She was also featured in another one of Shane's videos titled "Hot Chick or Cat Lady?".
In 2014, Lalaine starred in the movie One Night Alone. She will be playing the role as "Stacy". Lalaine and former "All That" star Lori Beth Denberg both co star in the new web series "Raymond and Lane".
Lizzie McGuire
Lalaine auditioned for the part of Miranda Sanchez in the Situation Comedy even though they did not have a laugh track. She portrayed a person who out her three best friends who was self- conscious. Lalaine received $80,000 an episode and her co- star Hilary Duff reportedly got $90,000 an episode and Adam Lamberg their other co- star got approximately $75,000 an episode.
Lalaine told Seventeen Magazine "We were friends and we still are friends but we are not best friends like who we portray on TV."
Lalaine left "Lizzie McGuire" to work on other projects. Lalaine declined to reprise her role as Miranda in "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" in an effort to focus on music.
Music career
In 2003, Lalaine released her independent album, Inside Story. Lalaine wrote six songs on the album, including "Life Is Good", "Can't Stop", and "Save Myself". She worked with Radio Disney, performing her songs in Southern California, and went to Hawaii with Disney's Imagineers.
In 2005, she performed on the last episode of Nickelodeon's All That. The following year, she released a single, "I'm Not Your Girl" and remade the song "Cruella DeVil" for the album DisneyMania 3.
She played bass guitar in the band Vanity Theft from April 2010 to January 2011.
In 2011, Lalaine sang on the song "Different" as part of the "Artists Against Hate".