Like many actors that played iconic characters on television, Hilary Duff had trouble escaping the shadow of her titular character in "Lizzie McGuire." The show ran from 2001 to 2004 on Disney Channel and a 2003 film followed the character as well.
Since then, the 33-year-old actress has found steady work, but the roles she were initially offered usually asked her to play a similar character. "I definitely went through big frustrations of being like, ‘Why can I not get a shot at being someone else?" Duff recently said to Cosmopolitan. "Not that I want to dog every casting director out there, but there’s a very small handful of people who are character actors and can be hired for roles that are truly different from one another.
Read more on foxnews.com