Emily Osment

Emily Jordan Osment (born March 10, 1992) is an American actress, singer and songwriter.

Emily Jordan Osment was born on March 10, 1992, in Los Angeles to actor Michael Eugene Osment and Theresa Osment (née Seifert), an English teacher.

She was raised as a Roman Catholic.

Her father has appeared in various films, including her film Soccer Mom, and her older brother is Academy Award-nominated actor Haley Joel Osment.

Osment's entry into the entertainment industry began in 1997, when she was cast in a commercial for flower delivery company FTD.

She was featured 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 television film Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End, a role that would lead to a Young Artist Award nomination.

Emily also made a brief appearance in the Smash Mouth music video All Star as the girl in the referee uniform.

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.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Osment began her career as a child actress, appearing in numerous television shows and films, before co-starring as Gerti Giggles in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003).

Osment made her film debut in 2002 as Gerti Giggles in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, a role for which she won the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film.

In 2003, she reprised her role in the third film of the Spy Kids series, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, which grossed $197 million worldwide.

Osment also voiced roles in Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch and Edward Fubbwupper Fibbed Big.

In 2005, Osment got the role of Lilly Truscott in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, the best friend of Miley Stewart and girlfriend to Oliver Oken on seasons 3 and 4.

When Miley was Hannah, Lilly was under the alias Lola Luftnagle.

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.

She played Lilly Truscott on the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana (2006–2011) and its film spinoff Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009).

In addition, Osment helped to design some of the pieces from the collection of clothing Hannah Montana Disney, which released the last part in the summer of 2006.

She also had a voice over role in a movie called Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen.

She performed several songs for the movie, including "Don't Ya Just Love Christmas" and "One Day".

Osment appeared as Cassie Keller in the film The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007) and as Melissa Morris in the Disney Channel television film Dadnapped (2009).

Osment came to prominence in music after recording songs for the soundtracks of her Disney projects, most notably a duet of "If I Didn't Have You" with Mitchel Musso in 2007 and a cover of "Once Upon a Dream" in 2008.

The show earned her a nomination for Young Artist Award in 2007 for Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama).

Emily sings the chorus of the Billy Ray Cyrus song "You've Got a Friend", from his album 2007 Home at Last.

Osment has also recorded a song titled "I Don't Think About It" in The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It, for which they made a music video.

The video was released in Haunting Hour DVD and premiered at Cartoon Network.

On December 25, Osment hosted the Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade with Hannah Montana co-star Mitchel Musso.

The parade featured Miley Cyrus and the High School Musical cast.

She 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 film, including "Don't Ya Just Love Christmas" and "One Day".

She also starred as a goth in R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It.

It earned her a Young Artist Award nomination in 2008 for "Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special Leading Young Actress".

She recorded the song "I Don't Think About It" for the movie's soundtrack.

In 2009, she signed a recording contract with Wind-Up Records, with whom she released one extended play, All the Right Wrongs (2009), and one studio album, Fight or Flight (2010).

She starred as Taylor Hillridge in the television film Cyberbully (2011), Roxie on the streaming series Cleaners (2013–2014), the Blonde Bopper in the film Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), as well as Roxy Doyle on the Fox television series Almost Family (2019–2020).

She also starred as Gabi Diamond on the Freeform television series Young & Hungry (2014–2018), for which she received three Teen Choice Award nominations.

From 2018 to 2021, Osment had a recurring role as Theresa on the Netflix comedy-drama series The Kominsky Method, for which she received two nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

She has a recurring role as Mandy on the CBS sitcom Young Sheldon since 2022.

She currently performs under the alias Bluebiird, and has released one extended play, When I Loved You (2019).