Morgan York

Morgan Elizabeth York (born January 18, 1993) is an American former child actress best known for her roles as Kim Baker in the film Cheaper by the Dozen, and as Sarah in the Hannah Montana series.

Career

Her first major film role was in 2003 at age 10 when she was given the part of Kim Baker in the box-office hit Cheaper by the Dozen. For their performance, York and her cast-mates won the Young Artist Award for "Best Young Ensemble in a Feature Film". In 2004, she filmed The Pacifier. Her portrayal of younger daughter Lulu Plummer was well received. In the summer of 2005, York headed back to Toronto to film Cheaper by the Dozen 2. From 2006 to 2010, York appeared in eleven episodes of the Disney series Hannah Montana. York stopped acting in 2010 after Hannah Montana's fourth season had finished production. She stated she would not return to acting in the future.

Personal life

York grew up in Los Angeles, California. She chose to stop acting in 2010 at the end of her run in the Hannah Montana series. On her blog, she stated "the older I got, and the more I felt like writing was my true calling." She graduated with a self-designed degree in "Writing Fiction: Listening, Absorbing, and Creating" at University of Redlands in 2015. In 2012, she wrote a blog post saying that she was intending to pursue a career as a young adult novelist. She is the older sister of Wendy York and Thomas York.

In July 2019, she married her partner, Danny Haddad.

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