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"I'm proud of my ethnicities and I will always be proud of being a Filipino".

BIO:
Lalaine Vergara-Paras (born June 3, 1987 in Burbank, California), also known as Lalaine, is an American actress, singer and spokesperson.

Personal life
Born to Filipino parents originally from Batangas and Pampanga Philippines, she grew up and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. She is the youngest of four siblings, Marian, Francisco and Cristina. She is of Filipino, Chinese and Spanish descent. In an interview, she stated, "People ask me, 'Are you Spanish?' ... "I say I have Spanish in me but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities and I will always be proud of being a Filipino". Lalaine is also involved in many charity events, such as the AIDS benefit concert and *NSYNC's challenge for the youth.

Acting career
Lalaine has recently finished acting as the lead in the new movie Royal Kill, also starring Academy Award nominees Eric Roberts and Pat Morita.

Lalaine is normally credited by her first name only. She is commonly known for playing the best friend, Miranda Sanchez on Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire, alongside Hilary Duff. She reprised this role on the pilot of a spin-off series What's Stevie Thinking? about Miranda's younger sister, but this did not air in 2005 as originally expected and was scrapped because Disney Channel made Wizards of Waverly Place. Lalaine's acting career began when she was cast in the Broadway production of Les Miserables in the roles of Young Cosette and Eponine.

When Lalaine returned to California, she acted in several television commercials, including some for Microsoft and Burger King. She also worked in the play Brundibar. Lalaine's voice has been used for many movies, including Inspector Gadget and Lolita. She also played orphan "Kate" in the Wonderful World of Disney ABC-TV version of the movie Annie. She starred alongside AJ Trauth in the Disney Channel movie You Wish as "Abby." Lalaine portrayed "Chloe," a young Slayer-In-Training who commits suicide, on the TV-Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When the First Evil assumes her form, Lalaine plays the malevolent force. In 2004, Lalaine went to Philippines and made guest appearances on the GMA Network including the SOP Gigsters. She began hosting her own Filipino travel show Flipside, where she travels around the islands. She also promoted GMA Pinoy TV in San Francisco, California in 2005.


Music career
In 2003, Lalaine released her independent album, Inside Story. Lalaine wrote six songs on the album, including "Life Is Good", "Can't Stop", and "Save Myself". She has been working with Radio Disney, performing her songs in Southern California, and went to Hawaii with Disney's Imagineers. For six months Lalaine's song "You Wish", written for the movie of the same name, was in the Top 4 Radio Disney songs. She has signed a record deal with Warner Brother's Records. She performed on the last episode of All That. Her most recent single was "I'm Not Your Girl". The lyrics of the song, and the video itself, could be viewed as an attack on Hilary Duff's public image. In the video, Lalaine portrays herself and two girls in blonde wigs (both looking similar to Duff's character on Lizzie McGuire), and the lyrics speak of how Lalaine is not "someone who's quiet and polite, likes staying home on every Friday night." Duff had said in an interview with Blender magazine in 2006 that she is a quiet girl who likes staying home on Friday nights, and did not feel badly doing so while knowing that many other girls her age liked going out and partying. A few songs from her unreleased album Haunted have leaked. "I'm Not Your Girl" and "Did You Hear About Us?" were included on a physical single, and "Haunted", "Real Life", "No More", "Doing Just Fine", and "More Than Words Can Say" leaked onto the internet. Lalaine wrote her pop rock record with various writers including Glen Ballard, Oliver Leiber, Danielle Brisebois and others. Now, Lalaine is reworking her record rhythmically with producer J. R. Rotem , Outkast producer Rico Wade and songwriter Evan "Kidd" Bogart.

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