Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan is known most famously as an American actress and pop singer, although she has accumulated a large amount of headlines and column inches for a colourful personal life. Littered with rehabilitation, probation and community service her career has been marred with heavy negative exposure from the press.

Breaking through with her 1998 Disney remake of The Parent Trap, Lindsay co-stared along side Dennis Quaid and showcased her acting abilities playing identical twins. After the success of that Lindsay Lohan then went on to boost her status with the younger market with: Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded. All three films did reasonably well at the box office and with critics, although at this point Lohan was in danger of becoming typecast within that juvenile teenage role a lot of young teen stars find themselves in.

Off the back of her success on the big screen Lindsey Lohan then went on to try her hand as a pop singer with the release of two albums Speak (2004), A Little More Personal (Raw) and a third untitled album which is slated for release toward the end of 2008. With a number of singles released from the two albums again they were received better with the public than the critics but this was something Lindsay was becoming accustomed to.

Sadly in conjunction with her raising celebrity status and mixed success Lindsay Lohan has been plagued by the press over a number of different personal issues and arrests. This has seen her popularity and paparazzi coverage go in two differing directions. Some say her party lifestyle has been to blame and Lohan has been lumped in the same category as regular socialites and acquaintances of Lindsay's - Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie.

After a period in rehab and with the press seemingly constantly on the hunt for scandal and gossip Lindsay has started moving away from more teen orientated films. A role in Chapter 27 about the famous murder of John Lennon, saw Linday star alongside Jared Leto in a departure from the types of film that saw Lohan break through.

Lindsay is still in her early 20's and with a strong work ethic and obvious acting ability the future can still be bright for a starlet who has so far been tainted with a life in the spot light. She is slated to be joining the cast of Ye Olde Times alongside Jack Black with filming due to start in April 2008 and also on the horizon is a role playing Nancy Pitman in Manson Girls a film about Charles Manson. Both projects will definitely mark the end of Lindsay Lohan's more juvenile films and possibly see her make that transition between teen starlet hounded by the media for the wrong reasons into an A list actress with media coverage for the right reasons.

Only time will tell.