Haylie Katherine Duff (born February 19, 1985) is an American actress and singer songwriter. She is best known for being the sister of Hilary Duff and her supporting role on 7th Heaven, as well as playing supporting roles in the films Material Girls and Napoleon Dynamite.
Duff was born in Houston, Harris County, Texas. Her mother, Susan Colleen (née Cobb), is a homemaker and film producer (co-executive producer of A Cinderella Story (2004) and producer of The Perfect Man (2005) and Material Girls (2006), as well as the manager of her sister Hilary.
Her father, Robert Erhard (Bob) Duff, is a partner and owner in a chain of convenience stores with father John B. Duff and who resides at the family home in Houston to maintain the family's business. She began her acting career as an offshoot of her early dance training. Growing up in Texas, Duff began ballet at an early age.
By age ten, Duff landed a role in the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s production of The Nutcracker. Haylie is two and a half years older than her sister, the popular musician and actress Hilary Duff.
Duff's early career started by making guest appearances on television such as Hope, True Women and The Amanda Show. In addition to guest-starring roles on Chicago Hope, Boston Public, and Third Watch, Duff became a familiar face starting in late 2002 as Amy Saunders/Sanders on the children's television series, Lizzie McGuire.
The star of that show was Duff’s younger sister, Hilary, whose own acting career was just starting to take off at the time. Hilary’s career would quickly eclipse her sibling's in short time, but Haylie would continue to maintain a presence on the small screen.
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