Julianne Hough

Julianne Hough (pronounced /ˈhʌf/; born July 20, 1988) is an American professional ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress. She is most widely known for being a two-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography. ABC's 20/20 called her one of the "very best dancers on the planet." Hough's brother, Derek, is also on Dancing with the Stars and is a three-time winner himself. Hough was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in December 2007. Her self-titled debut album was released May 20, 2008, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Country Album chart and #3 on the Billboard 200. It sold 67,000 copies its first week, and has sold over 320,000 total copies. On October 12, 2008, she released a holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection, which as of January 5, 2009, had sold 157,000 copies.

Julianne Hough - That Song In My Head



Julianne Hough dancing workout



Julianne and Derek Hough performing the Jive



Julianne Hough - My Hallelujah Song



Julianne Hough On Ryan Seacrest & Marriage Rumors




Early life

Hough was born in Sandy, Utah. She grew up the last of five children in a Latter Day Saint (Mormon) family in Sandy, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City.[3][4][5] Her parents are Mari Anne (née Heaton) and Bruce Robert Hough, who was twice chairman of the Utah Republican Party.[3][6] Her brother, Derek Hough, is also a professional dancer. She also has three older sisters, Sharee, Marabeth, and Katherine.[7] All four of Hough's grandparents were dancers,[8] and her parents met while on a ballroom dancing team in college, in Idaho.[citation needed]
Her formal training began at the Center Stage Performing Arts Studio in Orem, Utah, where she danced with Josh Murillo, among others, in Latin Ballroom; she began dancing competitively at nine. Her parents sent her and brother Derek to London a year later to live and study with their coaches, Corky and Shirley Ballas, and to spare them the strife of divorce.[9] The Ballases helped tutor the two Hough children alongside their own son, Mark, schooling them at the Italia Conti Academy. They received training in song, theatre, gymnastics and many forms of dance, including jazz, ballet, and tap.[9][10] The three children formed their own pop music trio 2B1G ("2 Boys, 1 Girl") when Hough was twelve,[11] performed at dance competitions in the UK and the U.S., and showcased in a UK television show.[12] At fifteen, Julianne Hough became the youngest dancer, and only American, to win both Junior World Latin Champion and International Latin Youth Champion at the Blackpool Dance Festival.[13] After five years in London, Hough returned to the U.S., first living with her mother for a year and attending Las Vegas Academy. She also spent a year at Park City High, in park city, Utah, then returned to Sandy, Utah to live with her father and graduate from Alta High.[14] She then moved on her own to Los Angeles to begin her career.
[edit]Dancing

She was featured in two television commercials and was an extra in an episode of Cold Case. She was one of the "Million Dollar Dancers" in the short-lived network television game show Show Me the Money.
Hough won the fourth season of the U.S. version of Dancing with the Stars with her partner Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater Apolo Ohno, making Hough the youngest professional dancer to win on the program.[15] On November 27, 2007, Hough and her partner, three-time Indianapolis 500 champion Hélio Castroneves, became the winners of Season 5. Hough returned for season 6 with radio host/comedian Adam Carolla, but they were eliminated in the fourth week. In July 2008, Hough was nominated at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in the category of "Outstanding Choreography" for her Mambo "Para Los Rumberos" (performed with partner Hélio Castroneves) on Dancing with the Stars.[16]
On August 25, 2008, the cast of season 7 was announced, and Hough was partnered with Hannah Montana actor Cody Linley. She felt abdominal pains during their jitterbug performance on October 27, 2008 and was immediately rushed to a hospital following the encore performance.[17] She subsequently had surgery to have her appendix removed, causing her to miss several performances; Edyta Śliwińska stood in for her. Hough returned to the show, although the pair were ultimately eliminated in the Semifinals Competition. She appeared on the November 12 results show dancing the jive to "Great Balls of Fire" with her brother for the "Design-A-Dance" contest. Hough and brother Derek were selected the favorite pros on the show by an online vote at ABC.com and won the honor of doing this special audience designed dance.[citation needed]
On November 20, 2008, Hough told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show she would not be returning for the foreseeable future to Dancing with the Stars in order to further her country music career.[18] However, she did return for the eighth season, partnering with at the time boyfriend, country singer Chuck Wicks. They were voted off in the eighth week of the competition and came in 6th place.[citation needed]
[edit]Music

Hough's first country music single "Will You Dance With Me" was released to iTunes and Wal-Mart in May 2007 to raise money for the American Red Cross. The song peaked at #100 on the Billboard Pop 100 chart.[19] She later signed with Universal Music Group Nashville's Mercury Nashville division.
Her self-titled debut album was recorded in Nashville and produced by David Malloy, who has worked with Reba McEntire, Eddie Rabbitt, among others. Hough's album, which met with mixed reviews,[20][21] debuted at #1 on the Top Country Albums chart on May 31, and also peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200.[22] Hough's second single, and the first to be released to country radio, "That Song in My Head" debuted on the Country charts in March.[citation needed]
Hough joined Brad Paisley's 2008 Tour, along with Jewel and Chuck Wicks. Hough, Paisley and Willie Nelson appeared in the video for the Snoop Dogg song "My Medicine".[23] Hough appeared in a Juicy Fruit commercial in the fall of 2008.[24] and released an EP of Christmas music called Sounds of the Season: The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection. Hough performed her second single "My Hallelujah Song" on Dancing With the Stars on November 18, 2008, with her brother, Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Lacey Schwimmer dancing.
Hough, LeAnn Rimes, Jessica Simpson, and Kellie Pickler announced the 2009 Academy of Country Music Award nominees in February 2009. Hough was nominated for the Top New Female Vocalist award, a fan voted award, which she subsequently won.[25] Hough won the Top New Artist award at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 5, 2009.
During 2009, Hough headlines some of her own shows. Her first concert as the headlining act was in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the Meyer Theatre on January 15, 2009.[citation needed] She was the opening act for two shows on Toby Keith's Tour as well as the opening act for George Strait's Summer 2009 Tour.[citation needed]
Hough did not get the chance to write on her first record because the whole process was so quick. For her next record, she plans to write more.[26]
Hough recently finished work on her second studio album for Mercury Nashville and the first single, "Is That So Wrong", was released to radio on June 21, 2010. The album is set for release in 2012.[27]
[edit]Acting

Hough's first role was in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States), the film adaptation of British author J. K. Rowling's bestselling novel. She appeared in an uncredited role as a "Hogwarts schoolgirl".[28][29]
Hough appeared in the 2010 musical Burlesque, starring Cher and Christina Aguilera. In the film, which chronicles a small-town girl (Christina Aguilera) who finds success at a Los Angeles burlesque club, she played a dancer named Georgia.[30]
It was confirmed on March 3, 2011 that she will be playing the role of Sherrie Christian in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages, alongsidge Tom Cruise and Mary J. Blige. The film is due for release in 2012.[31][clarification needed]
Hough will star as Ariel in the 2011 remake of the Paramount film Footloose opposite Kenny Wormald as Ren McCormack. Filming began in September, 2010.[32]
[edit]Personal life

Hough is the youngest sister of dancer Derek Hough.[33]
Upon completion of the fourth season of Dancing with the Stars, Hough postponed her wedding to former dancer Zach Wilson, but denied that a rumored relationship with Ohno was the cause of the breakup.[34] Despite rumors linking her romantically with various Dancing With the Stars partners,[35] and public courting by Kevin Connolly of Entourage fame,[36] Hough's first public relationship after Wilson was with country singer Chuck Wicks.[37] After dating since August 2008, they announced a mutual break-up on November 10, 2009.
Hough was diagnosed with endometriosis, a common condition in which tissue from the uterine lining grows outside the uterus. Hough successfully underwent an appendectomy in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on October 28, 2008.[38]
Since April 2010, Julianne Hough has been dating Ryan Seacrest, the host of American Idol.[39]
[edit]Dancing with the Stars performances

Hough's current DWTS pro average is 23.8.[citation needed]
[edit]With Apolo Anton Ohno
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha Cha/ "Let's Hear It for the Boy" 7 7 7 Safe
2 Quickstep/ "Two Hearts" 8 9 9 Safe
3 Jive/ "You Never Can Tell" 7 8 8 Safe
4 Waltz/ "If You Don't Know Me By Now" 9 8 9 Safe
5 Samba/ "I Like to Move It" 10 10 10 Safe
6 Rumba/ "Cool"
Swing/"Rock This Town" 9
No 9
Scores 10
Given Safe
7 Foxtrot/ "Steppin' Out With My Baby"
Mambo/ "Dr. Beat" 9
9 8
9 9
10 Safe
8 Tango/ "Jessie's Girl"
Paso Doble/ "Carnaval de Paris" 10
10 8
10 10
10 Safe
9
Semi-finals Quickstep/ "Mr. Pinstripe Suit"
Cha Cha/ "Push It[disambiguation needed]" 10
10 10
9 10
10 Safe
10
Finals Rumba/ "Midnight Train to Georgia"
Freestyle/ "Bust a Move"
Paso Doble/ "Carnaval de Paris" 9
10
10 9
10
10 10
10
10 Won
[edit]With Hélio Castroneves
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Foxtrot/ "Bewitched theme" 8 9 8 Safe
2 Mambo/ "Para Los Rumberos" 9 9 9 Safe
3 Jive/ "Kids In America" 8 8 8 Safe
4 Viennese Waltz/ "Iris" 9 9 9 Safe
5 Rumba/ "Apologize" 8 7 8 Safe
6 Cha Cha/ "Get Up Offa That Thing"
Rock N' Roll/"Rockin' Robin" 9
N/A 10
N/A 9
N/A Safe
7 Tango/ "Jean Genie"
Samba/ Candela 9
9 8
9 8
9 Safe
8 Paso Doble/ "Amparito Roco"
Quickstep/ "Hey Pachuco" 9
10 9
10 9
10 Safe
9
Semi-finals Foxtrot/ "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"
Cha Cha "Love Rollercoaster" 10
10 10
10 10
10 Safe
10
Finals Jive "Let's Twist Again"
Freestyle/ "Land of a Thousand Dances"
Quickstep/ "Hey Pachuco" 8
9
10 8
10
10 9
10
10 Won
The choreography for their Week 2 Mambo was later Emmy-nominated.
[edit]With Adam Carolla
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Foxtrot/ "Mellow Yellow" 5 5 5 N/A
2 Mambo/ "House of Bamboo" 6 7 6 Safe
3 Tango/ "I Can't Tell A Waltz From A Tango" 7 7 7 Safe
4 Paso Doble/ "Plaza Of Execution" 6 7 6 Eliminated
[edit]With Cody Linley
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Cha Cha/ "Tilt Ya Head Back" 6 6 6 Safe
1 Quickstep/ "I Want You to Want Me" 8 7 8 Safe
2 Rumba/ "Bleeding Love" 7 7 7 Safe
3 Jive/ "Call Me the Breeze" 7 7 7 Safe
4 Tango/ "Bohemian Like You" 7 8 8 Safe
5 Jitterbug/ "Big Time Operator" 10 9 9 Safe
6 Samba/ "Whine Up" 8 8 7 Safe
9
Semi-finals Paso Doble/ "Le Disko"
Salsa/ "Juventud del Presente" 8
8 7
8 7
8 Eliminated (4th place)
Weeks 7 and 8, Julianne was recovering from surgery. Linley danced with Edyta Sliwinska during this time.
[edit]With Chuck Wicks
Week # Dance/Song Judges' score Result
Inaba Goodman Tonioli
1 Waltz/"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" 6 7 7 N/A
2 Salsa/"Say Hey (I Love You)" 6 7 7 Safe
3 Foxtrot/"All I Want To Do" 8 7 8 Safe
4 Lindy Hop/"Summertime Blues" 8 7 7 Safe
5 Viennese Waltz/"Feels Like Today" 7 8 8 Safe
6 Rumba/"She Will Be Loved" 8 7 8 Safe
7 Samba/"Balla, Balla" 9 9 9 Safe
8 Cha Cha/ "Outta Love"
Team Mambo/ "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" 9
8 9
8 8
9 Eliminated
[edit]Discography

[edit]Studio albums
Title Album details Peak chart
positions
US Country US
Julianne Hough
Release date: May 20, 2008
Label: Mercury Nashville
1 3
Wildfire
To be released
Label: Mercury Nashville
TBR
[edit]Extended plays
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US Country US US Holiday
Sounds of the Season:
The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection
Release date: October 12, 2008
Label: Mercury Nashville
2 24 2
[edit]Singles
Year Single Peak chart positions Album
US Country US
[40] US
Pop
2007 "Will You Dance with Me" — 114 — Non-album song
2008 "That Song in My Head" 18 88 84 Julianne Hough
"My Hallelujah Song" 44 — —
2010 "Is That So Wrong" — — — Wildfire
"—" denotes releases did not chart
[edit]Guest singles
Year Single Artist Peak chart positions Album
US CAN NOR IRE NZ SWE SPA
2010 "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" Artists for Haiti 2 7 1 9 8 5 15 Non-album song
[edit]Music videos
Year Video Director
2008 "That Song in My Head" Trey Fanjoy
"My Hallelujah Song" Wayne Isham
2010 "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" Paul Haggis
"Is That So Wrong" Adam Shankman
[edit]Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Result
2009 Academy of Country Music Top New Female Vocalist Won
Top New Artist Won
CMT Music Awards USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year — "That Song in My Head" Nominated
[edit]Filmography

Year Film Role
2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Hogwarts schoolgirl (uncredited)
2010 Burlesque Georgia
2011 Footloose Ariel Moore
2012 Rock of Ages[31] Sherrie Christian

References from Wikipedia.com