Early life

Osment was born in Los Angeles, California, where her family still resides, 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 movie Soccer Mom, and her older brother is Academy Award-nominated actor Haley Joel Osment.

Career

1998-2005: Beginning and films

Osment's entry 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 television film 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.

In 2002, Osment made her film debut as Gerti Giggles in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams which grossed $229 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 film of the Spy Kids series, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, which grossed $197 million worldwide. 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.

2006-2007: Hannah Montana and musical beginnings

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 nomination for Young Artist Award in 2007 for best performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama). Osment also appeared in promoting Hannah Montana, Hannah Montana 's Backstage Secrets, which plays Lola in a fictional interview in the series canon . 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". Emily sings the chorus of the song Billy Ray Cyrus "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 acts like 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. Emily 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 also recorded the song "I Don't Think About It" for the movie's soundtrack. In 2007, she guest starred as Kelly and tall skunk girl on Disney Channel's Shorty McShorts' Shorts.

2008-2012: Fight or Flight, Cyberbully and other films

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, she also recorded a song, released in 2008, with "The Disney Channel Circle of Stars". She recorded a remake of "Once Upon A Dream", released on September 12, 2008. She recorded a song called "Hero in Me" for the Disney Channel Original Movie, Dadnapped and also filmed a music video to accompany it. In 2008 she starred in the film Soccer Mom, and was ranked on number 1 on Parade magazine and Forbes to Hot Kid Stars To Watch list. She also starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Dadnapped which premiered in February 2009.

According to an audio interview with Osment backstage at the Grammy of 2008, she was writing and recording tracks with Eve 6. In an interview with Half Taft Blue in 2008, Osment said she was working on her EP, All the Right Wrongs, although the sound would be different from her previous Disney music. On September 18, 2009, Osment listed the songs that would appear on this EP on her official Twitter page. The EP was released by Wind-Up Records on October 27, 2009. Osment wrote most of the songs on the album. The track All the Way Up which premiered on Radio Disney in August 2009, followed by the second single "You Are The Only One" in February 2010.

In 2009, Osment announced that she was working on her music debut, that she described her music as "definitely Pop but with an Alternative rock edge." She has collaborated on tunes with Tom Higgenson, Max Collins, Tony Fagenson, Toby Gad and Mandi Perkins. On October 26, 2009, Osment release her debut EP, All The Right Wrongs, which featured the singles "All the Way Up" and "You Are the Only One". The album was released by Wind-up Records.

Osment confirmed through her Twitter account that she would be on tour: the Clap Your Hands Tour included nine dates in the United States. On March 24, 2010, Osment confirmed on Good Day NY that her debut album would be released in the summer of 2010. The first single, "Let's Be Friends" from her debut album premiered on June 7, 2010. In October 5 she released her fist album, Fight or Flight. The second single, "Lovesick", was released on February 4, 2011. In October, Osment made her second tour Fight or Flight Tour to promote her first album Fight or Flight . It included concerts in North America, Europe and Latin America . It began on October 30, 2010 in São Paulo (Brazil) and ended on December 8, 2010 in Appleton (United States).

Osment presented at the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards on November 7 in Madrid, Spain, presenting an award to Justin Bieber for best male artist. In March 2010, Osment lent her voice to the secondary character, Celeste Kendall Perkins for the animated series Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil of Disney XD.

In May 2011, she released the duet single "Hush" with Josh Ramsay of Marianas Trench. In 2011, Osment starred in the ABC Family movie about a young woman who suffers cyberbullying, called Cyberbully, released on July 17, 2011. ABC worked with Seventeen Magazine to make the film with the hope that help eliminate Internet harassment. It was filmed in Montreal and was released on DVD on February 7, 2012. The film received generally positive reviews and had 3.4 million viewers on its premiere. To promote the film, she released her single, "Drift".

2013-present: Young & Hungry, upcoming second studio album and other projects

In 2013, Osment starred in the TV series Cleaners, which in 2014 was announced for a second season. Osment had a cameo in Life with Boys, where she has to take a picture with the main character, Tess, and her boyfriend. She does not appear again and four episodes of Family Guy. She reprised her voice role as Pep for the third Beverly Hills Chihuahua film, which was released on DVD September 18, 2012, and was one of her last works at Disney.

Emily Osment confirmed through her official Facebook account that she had left her label Wind-Up Records and has launched an independent project with airs folk, indie and country in a band called Ramshackle, consisting of Osment and her friend Dan Schechter, performing in bars such as the Troubadour and at the Spiedie Fest 2013, performing covers of The Beatles, R. Kelly and "Lullaby".

In 2013, Emily made a special participation in the episode "Bazinga! That's From a TV Show" for the comedy series Two And A Half Men where she played the role of Ashley. Osment starred in the short film called Seasick Sailor led by Devon Bostick and Torre Catalano. The film has been presented in some film festivals and won the award for Best Narrative Short at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Osment also participated in the drama, Kiss Me, directed by Jeff Probst in which she starred opposite Irish actress Sarah Bolger. In October, Emily filmed a new movie No Way Jose. In October 2013, the third movie in the Nightmare franchise started filming, called A Daughter's Nightmare, which premiered on Lifetime in 2014. Osment recorded the song In Case Of Fire for the soundtrack of the film. Osment also finished recording the second season of the web series Cleaners.

In 2014, she debuted as the lead role in the new ABC Family TV series Young & Hungry, produced by Ashley Tisdale. Emily plays Gabi, a feisty young blogger hired as the personal chef to a young San Francisco tech entrepreneur. Not the typical polished chef, Gabi is blunt, klutzy and has an outrageous sense of style. The pilot episode, which aired on June 25, 2014, garnered 1.08 million views in the US. The show is currently at its third season.

In 2015, one of the projects Osment is involved in is the movie Love Is All You Need? The film, which also stars Briana Evigan is an independent drama set in a world where being gay is normal and heterosexual people are intimidated. In August 2015, Osment was booked for a recurring role on the third season of the CBS series Mom. She played Jodi, a girl living on the street who was a drug addict; Christy (Anna Faris) and Bonnie (Allison Janney) helped her stay clean and find a job. The third season premiered on November 5, 2015. But Jodi died from a drug overdose in midseason, a decision made with the creation of the character.

Other ventures

Image and products

In 2007 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. Her image was used in some of these pieces, as well as other Hannah Montana merchandise (such as dolls and DVDs).

Philanthropy

She agreed to sign with CosmoGIRL! shirts for the president of an online charity auction. In 2007, Osment designed a line of shirts for 2lovecollection.com, whose proceeds went to the Make-a-Wish Foundation and St. Jude Research Hospital.

In early 2008, Osment participated in the "Disney Channel Earth Day", where she and other Disney stars met with TreePeople to teach children how to care for the environment with small changes in their homes and neighborhoods. Osment was also part of the green project, Disney's Friends for Change, an initiative for the environment created in 2009. The campaign wants young people aware of the current environmental situation and engage with it in around them. Children had the opportunity to choose how Disney will invest one million dollars in various environmental programs.

Osment was voted the U.G.L.Y celebrity of 2011 at the seventh annual Celebrity of the Year Award, thanks to the votes of young Americans impressed with the performance of the actress in her TV movie Cyberbully. Preventing bullying is the fundamental mission of Hey UGLY international nonprofit organization that sponsors the annual award.

Filmography

Main article: Emily Osment videography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	The Secret Life of Girls	Miranda Aiken	Secondary role
1999	Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End	Cassie Witting	Lead role
2000	Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big	Various	Voice; Short film
2002	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Gerti Giggles	Lead role
2003	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Gerti Giggles	Secondary role
2005	Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch	Additional voices	Voice
2006	Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen	Trick	Voice
2007	The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It	Cassie Keller	Lead role
2008	Soccer Mom	Becca	Lead role
2008	Surviving Sid	Claire	Voice
2009	Hannah Montana: The Movie	Lilly Truscott	Lead role
2009	Dadnapped	Melissa Morris	Television film
2011	Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2	Pep	Voice
2011	Cyberbully	Taylor Hillridge	Television film
2012	Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta!	Pep	Voice
2013	From Up on Poppy Hill	Nobuko Yokoyama	Voice
2013	Seasick Sailor	Beck	Short film
2014	A Daughter's Nightmare	Ariel Morgan	Television film
2014	Kiss Me	Shelby	Lead role
2015	No Way Jose	Summer Stern	Lead role
2016	Love Is All You Need?	Kelly Williams	Post-Production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	3rd Rock from the Sun	Dahlia	"Dick, Who's Coming to Dinner" (Season 5, Episode 6)
2000	Touched by an Angel	Alyssa	"With God as My Witness" (Season 6, Episode 12)
2001	Friends	Lelani Mayolanofavich	"The One with the Halloween Party" (Season 8, Episode 6)
2006-2011	Hannah Montana	Lilly Truscott / Lola Luftnagle	Main Role; 98 episodes
2007	Shorty McShorts' Shorts	Tall Skunk Girl / Kelly	"She Zow" (Season 2, Episode 10) "Mascot Prep" (Season 2, Episode 3)
2009	The Suite Life on Deck	Lilly Truscott	"Double-Crossed" (Season 1, Episode 21)
2010	Jonas	Herself	"Boat Trip" (Season 2, Episode 11)
2010-2012	Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil	Kendall Perkins	Voice; Recurring Role
2012	Life with Boys	Herself	"Double Trouble with Boys" (Season 1, Episode 11)
2012-2015	Family Guy	Various	Voice; Recurring role (Season 11-14)
2013	Two and a Half Men	Ashley	"Bazinga! That's From a TV Show" (Season 10, Episode 20)
2014-present	Young & Hungry	Gabi Diamond	Lead Role
2014	Rainbow Brite	Rainbow Brite	Voice; 3 episodes
2015-2016	Mom	Jodi	Recurring role

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013-14	Cleaners	Roxie	Main role; Web series

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse	Additional Voices	Voice

Discography

Main article: Emily Osment discography

Studio album

• Fight or Flight (2010)

Extended play

• All the Right Wrongs (2009)

Concert tours

Headlining

• Clap Your Hands Tour (2010)
• Fight or Flight Tour (2010)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2000	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot - Young Actress Age Ten or Under	Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End	Nominated
2003		Best Performance In A Feature Film - Young Actress Age Ten or Younger	Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams	Nominated
2004		Best Young Ensemble In A Feature Film	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Nominated
2007		Best Performance In A TV Series (Comedy or Drama) - Supporting Young Actress	Hannah Montana	Nominated
2008		Best Young Ensemble Performance In A TV Series		Nominated
		Best Performance In A TV Movie, Miniseries or Special - Leading Young Actress	The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It	Nominated
2009		Best Performance In A TV Series (Comedy or Drama) - Supporting Young Actress	Hannah Montana	Nominated
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie: Fresh Face Female	Hannah Montana: The Movie	Nominated
		Choice TV Sidekick	Hannah Montana	Won
2010	People's Choice Awards	Favorite Breakout Movie Actress	Herself	Nominated
2012	Prism Awards	Best Performance In A TV Movie or Miniseries	Cyberbully	Won
2013	Canadian Screen Awards	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series		Won
2014	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Summer TV Star - Female	Young & Hungry	Nominated
2015	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actress: Comedy	Young & Hungry	Nominated

[ Source: Wikipedia ]