Haylie Takes on Broadway!
Hairspray will soon be welcoming two new actresses to go and shake their fanny muscles. Haylie Duff, best known for her television and film work, is set to begin performances as the snotty Amber Von Tussle in July. The Tony Award-winning musical has also confirmed that Isabel Keating will be the next Velma Von Tussle.
Though younger sister Hilary is the most famous member of the family, Haylie Duff has been acting professionally since the age of twelve, getting her start with a very brief appearance in the 1997 miniseries True Women. Her small screen credits include recurring roles on Boston Public, her sister's series Lizzie McGuire, Joan of Arcadia and 7th Heaven. She has appeared in the films I Love Your Work and Napoleon Dynamite (in which she played the stuck-up Summer Wheatley, a character much like Amber Von Tussle) among others. She stars with her sister in the summer movie Material Girls. Both Duff sisters are singer/songwriters. Haylie co-wrote two songs for Hilary's debut album and has dueted with Hilary on recordings and in concert. The pair also notably appeared on an Icebreakers commercial together.
Keating received a Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award and Tony nomination for her
performance as Judy Garland in The Boy From Oz. She had first played Garland at Gotham's ArcLight Theatre in the show Judy's Scary Little Christmas. She won the 2000 Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress for her performance in Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink at The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. She also created the role of Lotty Wilton in the world premiere of Matthew Barber's Enchanted April at The Hartford Stage Company and briefly appeared as Rose Arnott in the Broadway production of the play. Her off-Broadway credits include appearances at The Atlantic Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Rattlestick Theatre Company. Her other theatrical credits include Dinner With Friends, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Frequency Hopping (in which she portrayed Hedy Lamarr) and, earlier this year, The Diary of Anne Frank at Paper Mill Playhouse.
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http://www.haylie-duff.org/