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Destiny Hope Cyrus (born November 23, 1992) is better known by her stage name Miley Cyrus, is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is perhaps best known for starring as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel Original Series, Hannah Montana. As of March 2008, she is in the legal process of changing her given name to "Miley Ray Cyrus". Cyrus became an overnight sensation after she was cast in Hannah Montana. Following the success of the show, in October 2006, a soundtrack CD was released in which she sang eight songs from the show. In December 2007, she was ranked #17 in the list of Forbes Top twenty earners under 25 with an annual earning of US$3.5 million. Miley Cyrus became interested in acting at age nine when the family briefly lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her first acting role was as a guest star on her father's television series Doc, in which she played a girl named Kylie. According to Disney Channel Executive Vice President Gary Marsh, Cyrus was chosen for Hannah Montana because of her energetic and lively performance and was seen as a person who "loves every minute of life", with the "everyday reliability of Hilary Duff and the stage presence of Shania Twain".

Hollywood teen queen Miley Cyrus is planning to take her record-breaking live concert tour to Australia, possibly late this year.

But late-night partying and boozing is not something that 15-year-old Cyrus -- a devout Christian and daughter of Achy-Breaky Heart star Billy Ray Cyrus -- is interested in.

"I don't feel like to go out and have fun you have to be drunk all the time," she said.

"I have enough energy for nine people and I have enough fun without stuff like that, so it's not for me."

The teenager's success at such a young age has some fearing she will fall down the same slippery slope as Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton with stints in rehab or jail.

Miley Cyrus, one of Disney's biggest stars and with an estimated personal fortune of $20 million, caused a sensation in the US last year when tickets to her 69-city American tour sold out in minutes. Scalpers cashed in, offloading $US25 tickets for $US1,000 to desperate parents fearing their children would miss out.

Miley Cyrus said she has been keen to perform in Down Under since her father returned from Australia after a tour a decade ago and raved about it. "Australia is a big marketplace for music," the teenager told reporters in Los Angeles. "Nashville tests most of its music in Australia because they're very open to pop music and country music over there."

Hannah Montana Australian fans get a taste from today (March 20 AEDT) of what the concert will be like when her film, Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, opens in Australian cinemas. The concert is in 3D. When the 3D concert debuted in American theatres in February it earned $US31 million ($A33.4 million) in its first three days to make it the number one movie in the nation, and has earned $US64 million ($A68.96 million) so far.

Cyrus is also the star of the hit Disney TV series, Hannah Montana, and is a merchandising powerhouse, with her face and name on products ranging from musical hairbrushes and wigs to doona covers.

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