Emily Jordan Osment was born in Los Angeles on March 10th, 1992. She is the younger sister of The Sixth Sense star, Haley Joel Osment, who has is considered to be one of the greatest child actors ever. Her father is also an actor of some renown. Following in their footsteps, Emily started her acting career performing in several commercials, including a radio spot with Dick Van Dyke, before making her film debut in "The Secret Life of Girls." The same year she landed a role in the Hallmark film, "Sarah, Plai - www.imdb.com

Emily Osment is known to viewers of the Disney Channel as Lilly Truscott, the best friend and sidekick of TV's Hannah Montana (played by Miley Cyrus). Emily's also the sister of Haley Joel Osment, the young actor who shot to stardom after M. Night Shyamalan's 1999's The Sixth Sense. She got into the business at the age of five by way of TV commercials. She was in the movies by the age of seven (1999's The Secret Life of Girls), and became known to young audiences through the Robert Rodgriguez Spy Kids seque - www.answers.com

Emily Osment Fast Facts: Made her acting debut in an FTD flowers commercial at age 6. First feature-film role came with the 1999 teen comedy The Secret Life of Girls. Good friends with Miley Cyrus, star of the popular Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, on which Osment plays the character Lilly Truscott. - www.tvguide.com