Miley Cyrus

Early life

Cyrus was born on 1992 to Letitia "Tish" (born Finley) and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. They gave her the nickname "Smiley", which was later shortened to "Miley", because she smiled so often as a baby.

Against the wishes of her father's record company, Cyrus's parents secretly married a year after Cyrus's birth on December 28, 1993. Tish had two children from a previous relationship. She has a half-brother, Christopher Cody, Billy Ray's son from a brief relationship. Tish and Billy Ray had two more children, Braison and Noah.

Cyrus was very close to her paternal grandfather, Democratic politician Ronald Ray Cyrus. Cyrus has paid her grandfather several tributes since his death in 2006, including eventually changing her middle name to "Ray".

Image & Earnings

Image

Cyrus is the youngest recording artist ever with four #1 albums in less than 3 years.

In June 2011, Cyrus was named by the Rolling Stones magazine a queen of pop, she was named #8 based on album sales selling 2.027 million copies. also, she was named #7 based on digital tracks selling 14.763 million digital copies, #5 based on youtube views with 784,667,358 views, #12 based on radio airplay with 216 airplay's, #11 based on Billboard hot 100 appearances with 164.2 points, and #9 based on social networking with 14.9 million Facebook likes, and 1.4 million Twitter followers.

Lastly, she was named #6 based off the gross of her tours with 66.5 million dollars in grossing, #14 based off award wins, in this case the Teen Choice Awards did not count and only mainstream-awards counted such as the Grammy Awards and awards like that in the music category, #14 based on album reviews. out of all the rankings for the categories, she was name on the official "Queen of Pop" list at #8 behind Beyonce, Katy Perry, best friend Taylor Swift, her inspiration Britney Spears and many more. She also beat out Carrie Underwood, Nicki Minaj, Adele, Christina Aguilera, and many more.

Earnings

In 2008, Cyrus earned $25 million, up from her earnings of $18 million in 2007, and was ranked number 35 on Forbes magazine's "Celebrity 100" list. Parade magazine reported she was the richest teenage celebrity and that her franchise would be worth approximately $1 billion by the end of the year.

In 2009, Forbes ranked her #29 on the Celebrity 100 and reported she had earned a total of $25 million. Then Cyrus got ranked number thirteen on Forbes' 2010 Celebrity 100 ranking $48 million. From the $48 million she made between June 2009 to June 2010 made her the no. 4 highest earners under 30 and the youngest on the list. between June 2010 and June 2011, Cyrus earned $54 million.

Also, she is behind friend and Disney star Selena Gomez that makes $25,000 per episode of her show. Though she had not got paid as much as other Disney stars,when she was 17 she was named #19 on the "Top 20 World's Richest Female Singers Of All Time" list with over $100 million in 5 years active throughout her career, which made her the youngest female artist on the list.

In 2011, she was named #1 on the "Top 10 Richest Teens In Hollywood" with $120 million.

Emotional Experiences

In an interview, Tyler Posey stated that he and Cyrus met on the set of the show Doc, and that they shared their first kiss on the show. He then stated that he and Cyrus dated for two years and then broke up when they were 11.

She and Nick Jonas had dated for two years and "were in love", but were "fighting a lot" by the end.

In June 2009, Cyrus ended her nine-month relationship with model Justin Gaston. While filming later that month, Cyrus began dating her co-star in The Last Song, Australian actor Liam Hemsworth.

In August 2010, it was confirmed that her relationship with Hemsworth had ended. Cyrus and Hemsworth were seen together a month later, and were reportedly back together. It was announced in early November that the couple had split again.

On March 31, 2011, Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth have reportedly rekindled their relationship. On June 20, Cyrus confirmed in a interview that she and Hemsworth are still rocking and still are together.

Filmography

Films:

• 2011: So Undercover

• 2011: LOL: Laughing Out Loud

• 2011: Justin Bieber: Never Say Never

• 2010: Sex and the City 2

• 2010: The Last Song

• 2009: Hannah Montana: The Movie

• 2008: Bolt

• 2008: Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert

• 2007: High School Musical 2

• 2003: Big Fish

Television

• 2011: i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll

• 2011: Saturday Night Live

• 2009: The Suite Life on Deck

• 2008: E! True Hollywood Story

• 2007-2008: The Emperor's New School

• 2007: The Replacements

• 2006-2008: Disney 365

• 2006: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

• 2006-2011: Hannah Montana

• 2001-2003: Doc

Studio albums

• 2010: Can't Be Tamed

• 2008: Breakout

• 2007: Meet Miley Cyrus

Tours

• 2011: Gypsy Heart Tour

• 2009: Wonder World Tour

• 2007-2008: Best of Both Worlds Tour