Pretty Little Liars
Pretty Little Liars is an American mystery teen drama thriller television series created by Marlene King. Based on the popular series of novels written by Sara Shepard, the show premiered on June 8, 2010 on ABC Family.[1] The series follows the lives of Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale), Spencer Hastings(Troian Bellisario), Hanna Marin (Ashley Benson) and Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell), four girls whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of theirqueen bee, Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse). One year later, they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets. At first they think it's Alison herself, but after she is found dead, the girls realize that someone else knows their secrets, — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.[2]
After an initial order of 10 episodes, on June 28, 2010, ABC Family ordered an additional 12 episodes for season one.[3] These episodes began airing on January 3 and ended on March 21, 2011.[4] The ratings success of the first 10 episodes prompted the book series to be extended beyond the initial eight novels.[5] On January 10, 2011 ABC Family renewed the series for a second season.[6] The second season premiered on June 14, 2011, and after an initial order of 24 episodes, an additional was added as a part of ABC Family's 13 Nights of Halloween. The series follows the lives of four teenage girls -- Aria Montgomery, Emily Fields, Hanna Marin, and Spencer Hastings -- whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison DiLaurentis. One year later, after the discovery of Ali's body, they begin receiving text messages from an anonymous source , "A", who threatens to expose their secrets -- including long-hidden ones they thought only their close friend Alison knew. As the shows continue they discover more secrets that can harm not only them but the ones around them. They also discover clues that may lead them to find out the identity of 'A' and Ali's killer. Pretty Little Liars is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. The series follows the lives of four girls--Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily—whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison. A year later, they begin receiving various messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets. Originally developed as a television series by book packaging company Alloy Entertainment, the idea was described as "Desperate Housewives for teens". Alloy met author Shepard and gave her the property to develop into a book series. The first novel, Pretty Little Liars, was released in October 2006. It was followed by Flawless and Perfect in March and August 2007, Unbelievable and Wicked in May and November 2008, Killer in June 2009,and Heartless in January 2010. Wanted, announced as the eighth and final installment, was released on June 8, 2010. In December 2010 Shepard announced that she would write four more novels in the series, beginning with Twisted, to be released on July 5, 2011.
After an initial order of 10 episodes, on June 28, 2010, ABC Family ordered an additional 12 episodes for season one.[3] These episodes began airing on January 3 and ended on March 21, 2011.[4] The ratings success of the first 10 episodes prompted the book series to be extended beyond the initial eight novels.[5] On January 10, 2011 ABC Family renewed the series for a second season.[6] The second season premiered on June 14, 2011, and after an initial order of 24 episodes, an additional was added as a part of ABC Family's 13 Nights of Halloween. The series follows the lives of four teenage girls -- Aria Montgomery, Emily Fields, Hanna Marin, and Spencer Hastings -- whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison DiLaurentis. One year later, after the discovery of Ali's body, they begin receiving text messages from an anonymous source , "A", who threatens to expose their secrets -- including long-hidden ones they thought only their close friend Alison knew. As the shows continue they discover more secrets that can harm not only them but the ones around them. They also discover clues that may lead them to find out the identity of 'A' and Ali's killer. Pretty Little Liars is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. The series follows the lives of four girls--Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily—whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison. A year later, they begin receiving various messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets. Originally developed as a television series by book packaging company Alloy Entertainment, the idea was described as "Desperate Housewives for teens". Alloy met author Shepard and gave her the property to develop into a book series. The first novel, Pretty Little Liars, was released in October 2006. It was followed by Flawless and Perfect in March and August 2007, Unbelievable and Wicked in May and November 2008, Killer in June 2009,and Heartless in January 2010. Wanted, announced as the eighth and final installment, was released on June 8, 2010. In December 2010 Shepard announced that she would write four more novels in the series, beginning with Twisted, to be released on July 5, 2011.
Troian Bellisario
Troian Avery Bellisario (born October 28, 1985) is an American actress. She currently stars as Spencer Hastings in the ABC Family series Pretty Little Liars. Bellisario made her acting debut in 1988 film Last Rites at the age of 3.[1] From 1990 to 2007, she guest starred on Quantum Leap, Tequila and Bonetti, JAG, First Monday and NCIS, television series that were produced by her father Donald Bellisario. In 1998, she co-starred with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in the film Billboard Dad. Beginning in 2006, Bellisario began appearing in a number of independent short films namely, Unspoken, Archer House and Intersect. In November 2009, Bellisario was cast as Spencer Hastings in the TV series Pretty Little Liars based on the book series of the same name by Sara Shepard.[2] Bellisario was born in Los Angeles County, California. She is the daughter of television producer Donald Bellisario and actress Deborah Pratt (Pratt portrayed a character named Troian in the Quantum Leap episode "A Portrait for Troian"). She is the half-sister of Michael Bellisario. Actor Sean Murray and producer Chad W. Murray are her stepbrothers. She appeared with Sean on NCIS, playing his character’s sister, Sarah McGee.
Ashley Benson
Ashley Victoria Benson (born December 18, 1989) is an American film and television actress, and model. She is known for her role as Abigail Deveraux onDays Of Our Lives (2004–2007), Carson in Bring It On: In It to Win It, and Hanna Marin on Pretty Little Liars. Benson was born and raised in Anaheim Hills, California.[1] She started dancing competitively in ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and lyrical at age 3. She also enjoys singing, and has appeared in several choir groups and musicals. At age 4, she was asked to audition to sing solo at four Christmas services for her 2,500 member church. At 5 years old, she modeled in dance catalogs, and at age 8 was pursued by The Ford Modeling Agency and worked steadily in print. She made a very small appearance in Zoey 101 in the episode "Quinn's Date". She has also performed in NLT's music video "That Girl".In 1999, Benson started pursuing an acting career. She began working and appearing on a number of commercials, but quickly made the transition into film and television. In 2004, Benson signed a three-year contract with the daytime television series, Days of our Lives, and on November 12, 2004 began her role as Abigail "Abby" Deveraux, the oldest child of supercouple Jack Deveraux and Jennifer Horton, until May 2, 2007. She explained that, because of the number of episodes filmed a day, "you can't really mess up; you have to know all of your lines", and that she did not get a break from work.
She played a witch disguised as a cheerleader in a 2008 episode of the CW series Supernatural. In films, she was one of the "Six Chicks" in 13 Going on 30, and appeared as Carson in an installment of the Bring It On series, Bring It On: In It to Win It. To land the lead role, she had to terminate her contract with Days of our Lives:
"I got off it, I mean I had talked with the producers about doing this film, and they weren't going to let me do it. I had passed up a lot of other good opportunities this. I really want to do this film. I had just passed up so many opportunities where I could have done a film. So this big thing just came up, and I ended up getting to do this. I'm happier that I got off the soap though. I mean I give all my credit to them, because I have learned so much from being on soap operas and working with amazing actors who've been on there for like thirty, forty years. It was an honor to work with them. It's definitely given me all my background. But getting off the soap opera helped me a lot too, because I can move on to bigger and better things. So I am definitely thankful I got to be on a soap opera though, but yeah..." She recalled working on a movie set instead of a soap opera set "definitely weird", because she would spend days working on one or two scenes, whereas on the Days of our Lives set, she filmed two or three episodes a day. For Bring It On: In It to Win It, she had to attend cheerleading practice, which was "hard for [her], because [she is] afraid of heights." Nonetheless, she was "glad" to do her own stunts, even though she "wasn't expecting for it to be so hard."
In 2008, she appeared in the Lifetime TV movie Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, where she played head cheerleader Brooke of the Fab Five, which is based on a true story which took place at McKinney North High School in Texas. She "loved" working with her onscreen mother Tatum O'Neal, from who she learned about acting. Furthermore, she was excited to land a supporting role in Bart Got a Room, which aired mainly on film festivals in 2008 before having a limited release in 2009, because it allowed her to work with William H. Macy.
Benson starred in ABC's 2009 television series Eastwick. The show was based on John Updike's novel, The Witches of Eastwick, and the 1987 film adaption of the same name. Her character, Mia, was the teen-aged daughter of Roxie Torcoletti (Rebecca Romijn).
In December 2009, Benson was cast as Hanna Marin in the TV series Pretty Little Liars based on the book series by Sara Shepard.
Benson co starred in Christmas Cupid with Chad Michael Murray and Christina Milian. She recently appeared in One Call's music video for Blacklight. In April of 2011, Benson appeared on an episode of "When I Was 17" airing on MTV.
She played a witch disguised as a cheerleader in a 2008 episode of the CW series Supernatural. In films, she was one of the "Six Chicks" in 13 Going on 30, and appeared as Carson in an installment of the Bring It On series, Bring It On: In It to Win It. To land the lead role, she had to terminate her contract with Days of our Lives:
"I got off it, I mean I had talked with the producers about doing this film, and they weren't going to let me do it. I had passed up a lot of other good opportunities this. I really want to do this film. I had just passed up so many opportunities where I could have done a film. So this big thing just came up, and I ended up getting to do this. I'm happier that I got off the soap though. I mean I give all my credit to them, because I have learned so much from being on soap operas and working with amazing actors who've been on there for like thirty, forty years. It was an honor to work with them. It's definitely given me all my background. But getting off the soap opera helped me a lot too, because I can move on to bigger and better things. So I am definitely thankful I got to be on a soap opera though, but yeah..." She recalled working on a movie set instead of a soap opera set "definitely weird", because she would spend days working on one or two scenes, whereas on the Days of our Lives set, she filmed two or three episodes a day. For Bring It On: In It to Win It, she had to attend cheerleading practice, which was "hard for [her], because [she is] afraid of heights." Nonetheless, she was "glad" to do her own stunts, even though she "wasn't expecting for it to be so hard."
In 2008, she appeared in the Lifetime TV movie Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, where she played head cheerleader Brooke of the Fab Five, which is based on a true story which took place at McKinney North High School in Texas. She "loved" working with her onscreen mother Tatum O'Neal, from who she learned about acting. Furthermore, she was excited to land a supporting role in Bart Got a Room, which aired mainly on film festivals in 2008 before having a limited release in 2009, because it allowed her to work with William H. Macy.
Benson starred in ABC's 2009 television series Eastwick. The show was based on John Updike's novel, The Witches of Eastwick, and the 1987 film adaption of the same name. Her character, Mia, was the teen-aged daughter of Roxie Torcoletti (Rebecca Romijn).
In December 2009, Benson was cast as Hanna Marin in the TV series Pretty Little Liars based on the book series by Sara Shepard.
Benson co starred in Christmas Cupid with Chad Michael Murray and Christina Milian. She recently appeared in One Call's music video for Blacklight. In April of 2011, Benson appeared on an episode of "When I Was 17" airing on MTV.
