Emily Jordan Osment (born March 10, 1992) is an
American teen actress and singer-songwriter. After working in
several television films in her childhood, Osment gained fame for
co-starring as Gerti Giggles in
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost
Dreams and
Spy Kids
3-D: Game Over which earned her several nominations and
awards. Osment went on to co-star in the
Emmy Award-nominated Disney Channel sitcom
Hannah Montana as
Lilly Truscott as well as the series movie,
Hannah Montana: The
Movie. She also starred as Cassie in
R. L. Stine's:
The Haunting
Hour Volume One: Don't Think About It and most recently
the
Disney Channel
Original Movie,
Dadnapped as
Melissa Morris.
Osment expanded her repertoire into pop music and more recently
alternative/
indie rock where she has recorded teen pop hits
like "
I Don't Think About
It", "
If I Didn't Have You"
alongside her
Hannah Montana
co-star
Mitchel Musso, and most
recently "
Once Upon a
Dream."
She is recording her debut album, which features several songs
written by her, due for release in March 2010 on
Wind-up Records, where she recently signed.
Emily collaborated on the album with Tom Higgenson of the
Plain White T's and
Eve
6's Max Collins & Tony Fagenson. The first single from the
album, "All the Way Up", premiered on
Radio
Disney on August 14, 2009.
Early life
Emily Osment was born in Los Angeles, where her family still
resides, to actor Michael Eugene Osment, and Theresa Osment
(
née Seifert), an English teacher. Her father is an actor
of various films and appeared in Osment's movie debut
Soccer Mom, and her older brother is
the
Academy Award-nominated actor
Haley Joel Osment.Osment was
raised Roman Catholic.
She was a student at Flintridge Preparatory School
in La Cañada
, California, and now has a private
tutor.
Acting career
Early career
Her introduction into the entertainment industry began in 1998,
when she was cast in a commercial for flower delivery company
FTD. From there she
went on to feature in many commercials, after which she made her
acting debut in the 1999 film
The Secret Life of Girls,
starring
Eugene Levy and
Linda Hamilton. The same year, she co-starred
with
Glenn Close in the Hallmark Classic
telefilm
Sarah,
Plain and Tall: Winter's End, a role that would lead a
Young Artist Award nomination.
Since then, she has gone on to do a number of roles, such as
appearances on television shows like
Touched by an Angel,
Friends, and
3rd Rock from the Sun.
2002-2006
In 2002, Osment made her film debut as Gerti Giggles in
Spy Kids 2: Island
of Lost Dreams which grossed $119 million globally and for
which she won the "Young Artist Award" for best performance in a
feature film. In 2003, she reprised her role in the third and final
part of the
Spy Kids trilogy,
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, which
grossed $197 million worldwide.
In 2006, Osment got the role of
Lilly
Truscott in the
Disney Channel
series
Hannah Montana. The
series premiere scored record ratings for the Disney Channel with
5.4 million viewers, a response "beyond our wildest expectations,"
according to the president of Disney Channel Entertainment. The
show earned her a
Young Artist
Award nomination in 2007 for
best performance in a TV
series (Comedy or Drama). Osment also appeared in the Disney
Channel
Hannah Montana promotion "Hannah Montana's
Backstage Secrets", in which she portrays Lola in a fictional
interview set in the show's canon. In addition, Osment helped to
design some of the pieces from the
Hannah Montana clothing
collection which Disney released in the latter part of the summer
in 2006.
On December 25, Osment hosted the
Walt Disney World
Christmas Day Parade with
Hannah Montana co-star
Mitchel Musso. The parade featured
acts like
Miley Cyrus and the
High School Musical
cast. Osment and Musso performed a sketch based on a
Hannah
Montana episode. Osment also had a voice over role in a movie
called
Holidaze: The
Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen, which also featured
the voices of fellow Disney Channel stars
Brenda Song and
Dylan and Cole Sprouse. Osment
performed several songs for the movie, including "Don't Ya Just
Love Christmas" and "One Day".
2007–present
Osment did a voice over role in the
Disney movie
Lilo &
Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch and also a voice role in
Edward Fubbwupper
Fibbed Big. She also starred as a
goth in
R.
L. Stine's:
The Haunting
Hour Volume One: Don't Think About It (co-starring with
Hannah Montana co-star
Cody
Linley). The movie earned her a
Young Artist Award nomination in 2008 for
Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special Leading
Young Actress. In 2007, Osment guest-starred as Kelly &
tall skunk girl on Disney Channel's
Shorty McShorts' Shorts.
According to an audio interview with Emily backstage at the
Grammys, she is to start filming a new movie called
Soccer Mom. In April 2008,
Parade magazine and
Forbes ranked her #1 in their
Hot Kid Stars To Watch list. Osment starred in the
Disney Channel Original
Movie,
Dadnapped. The film
premiered in February 2009.
Music career
Emily Osment sang vocals in
Billy Ray
Cyrus's song "
You've Got a
Friend" from his 2007 album
Home at Last.
Osment has also recorded a song entitled "I Don't Think About It"
for
The Haunting Hour Volume One under the label
Hatchery, for which she shot an accompanying music video.
The video was released in
The Haunting Hour DVD and
premiered on Cartoon Network.
Osment also recorded a remake version of the song "
If I Didn't Have You" with
Mitchel Musso for the
DisneyMania 6 CD. The song was produced
by
Bryan Todd. The two also filmed a
music video for their remake. In addition, Osment also recorded a
song, released in 2008, with "The Disney Channel Circle Of Stars."
Osment recorded a remake of "Once Upon a Dream" for the release of
Sleeping Beauty 50th Platinum Edition. The song was aired on Disney
Channel on September 12, 2008. Osment also recorded a song called
"Hero in Me" for her
Disney Channel Original Movie,
"
Dadnapped." She also filmed a music video
to accompany it. The song will also be released on the Disney
compilation album
Disney Channel
Playlist, which was released June 9, 2009.
According to an audio interview with Emily backstage at the Grammys
2008, she is currently writing and recording tracks with
Eve 6. In an interview with Half Taft Blue in 2008,
Osment said that she is working on her EP which is called
All the Right
Wrongs, though the sound will be completely different from
Disney
pop. Instead, the main genre will
be
Indie rock, and the EP will be
released on
Wind-up Records October
27, 2009. Osment is set to write most of the songs on the album,
with the new track "All The Way Up" being premiered on
Radio Disney in August 2009.
Osment describes her music as "definitely
Pop but with an
Alternative rock edge". She has
collaborated on tunes with
Tom
Higgenson,
Max Collins and
Tony Fagenson. On September 18, 2009, Osment
tweeted the songs that would be featured in her
EP on her official
Twitter page.
I Don't Think About It
I Don't Think About was recorded for
RL
Stine's
The Haunting Hour: Don't
Think About It and hit number one on the
Radio Disney top three in July 2009. Osment
also shot an accompanying music video for the song, released in the
The Haunting
Hour: Don't Think About It DVD.
The music video shows Osment singing the song in a recording
studio. Throughout the video are scenes Osment singing to the song
with crazy animations in the background. Another portion of the
video shows clips from the movie
The Haunting Hour:
Don't Think About It. The video also shows behind the
scenes stuff and some with home videos of Osment.
Philanthropy
She agreed to sign
CosmoGIRL!
for President Shirts for a charity online auction. In 2007, Osment
designed a line of T-shirts for 2lovecollection.com, with proceeds
going to the
Make-a-Wish
Foundation and the St. Jude Research Hospital.
In early 2008, Osment participated in Disney Channel's "Earth Day",
where she and other Disney stars met with TreePeople to teach kids
how to help the environment with small changes in their homes and
neighborhoods.
Entrepreneurship
That same year, Osment signed a deal to appear in a nationwide
campaign called "Smart Girls Rock" by the New York-based denim
brand Vanilla Star. "It's a new line for girls, the clothes are
really denim and girly with an edge of punk." She promoted her song
"I Don't Think About It" with the release of the campaign and
commercial.
Late that summer, Disney released a
Hannah Montana
clothing collection. Osment helped to design some of the pieces
from the collection. Osment's image was used some of these pieces,
as well as other
Hannah Montana merchandise (such as dolls
and DVDs).
Personal life
Osment is close friends with fellow
Hannah Montana
co-stars
Mitchel Musso and
Miley Cyrus. She mentioned during an interview
on
The View that her favorite
books are the
Twilight
series by
Stephenie Meyer. She
participated in the 10th Annual
Michael
Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Event with her brother.
Contrary to previous reports that Osment stated that she looks up
to
Audrey Hepburn and is a big fan of
Breakfast at
Tiffany's, she has confirmed in an interview with
Eggplante.com that, while she is in fact a huge Audrey Hepburn fan,
she has never seen the film. She also confirmed in the same
interview that she held a long term complicated relationship with
someone for a few years a little while ago which inspires many of
her songs, including "You Are the Only One" on her EP
All The Right Wrongs. She left her
school and opted for private tutoring.
Filmography
Film
Discography
Studio albums
| Year |
Album details |
| 2010 |
TBA
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EPs
Singles
Music videos
Awards
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