Miley Ray Cyrus, born in 1992, is an American television and film actress and pop singer. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana. With the success of the Hannah Montana franchise she established herself as a teen idol. She began her foray into film by providing the voice of Penny in the animated film Bolt (2008). She began to cultivate an adult image in 2009 with the release of The Time of Our Lives, an extended play which presented a more mainstream pop sound, and by filming The Last Song (2010), a coming-of-age drama movie.