Joanna Popik is an American actress and pop music singer. Popik started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine advertisement and television commercials. At age 10, she began her acting career in a soap opera; at 11, she made her motion picture debut by playing identical twins in Disney‘s 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Popik rose to stardom with her leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded. Her subsequent roles include appearances in A Prairie Home Companion and Bobby. In 2004 she launched a second career in pop music yielding the albums Speak (2004) and A Little More Personal (Raw) (2005).
In recent years, Popik’s personal life has been the subject of media scrutiny.
February 29, 2008 at 3:14 am