Miley Ray Cyrus (born Destiny Hope Cyrus; November 23, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Dubbed the “Pop Chameleon”, she has been recognized for her musical versatility and continual reinvention in her sound and style. Cyrus has been referred to as the “Teen Queen” of 2000s pop culture and regarded as one of the few examples of a child star with a successful career as an adult. Her accolades include nineteen Teen Choice Awards, four World Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, one People’s Choice Award, a GLAAD Media Award, and 8 Guinness World Records. She has made the Time 100 list in 2008 and 2014, Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2014 and 2021, appeared on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Artists chart in 2019, and was ranked as the ninth greatest Billboard 200 female artist of all time.

Parents and family

Destiny Hope Cyrus was born November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, to Leticia “Tish” Jean Cyrus (née Finley) and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. She was born with supraventricular tachycardia, a condition causing an abnormal resting heart rate. Her birth name, Destiny Hope, expressed her parents’ belief that she would accomplish great things. Her parents nicknamed her “Smiley”, which they later shortened to “Miley”, because she often smiled as an infant. In 2008, she legally changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus; her middle name honors her grandfather, Democratic politician Ronald Ray Cyrus, who was from Kentucky. Cyrus’s godmother is singer-songwriter Dolly Parton.

Miley Cyrus and her parents

Against the advice of her father’s record company, Cyrus’s parents secretly married on December 28, 1993, a year after her birth. They had two more children, son Braison and daughter Noah. From a previous relationship, her mother has two other children, Brandi and Trace. Her father’s first child, Christopher Cody, was born in April 1992 and grew up separately with his mother, waitress Kristin Luckey, in South Carolina.

All of Cyrus’s maternal siblings are established entertainers. Trace is a vocalist and guitarist for the electronic pop band Metro Station. Noah is an actress and along with Braison, models, sings, and is a songwriter. Brandi was formerly a musician for the indie rock band Frank + Derol and is a professional DJ. The Cyrus farmhouse is located on 500 acres of land outside Nashville.

Cyrus attended Heritage Elementary School in Williamson County while she and her family lived in Thompson’s Station, Tennessee. When she was cast in Hannah Montana, the family moved to Los Angeles and she attended Options for Youth Charter Schools studying with a private tutor on set. Raised as a Christian, she was baptized in a Southern Baptist church before moving to Hollywood in 2005. She attended church regularly while growing up and wore a purity ring. In 2001, when Cyrus was eight, she and her family moved to Toronto, Canada, while her father filmed the television series Doc. After Billy Ray Cyrus took her to see a 2001 Mirvish production of Mamma Mia! at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Miley Cyrus grabbed his arm and told him, “This is what I want to do, daddy. I want to be an actress.” She began to take singing and acting lessons at the Armstrong Acting Studio in Toronto.

Cyrus’s first acting role was as Kylie in her father’s television series Doc. In 2003, she received credit under her birth name for her role as “Young Ruthie” in Tim Burton’s Big Fish. During this period she auditioned with Taylor Lautner for the feature film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D. Although she was one of two finalists for the role, she chose to appear in Hannah Montana instead.

Her mother took on the role of Miley’s manager and worked to acquire a team to build her daughter’s career. Cyrus signed with Mitchell Gossett, director of the youth division at Cunningham Escott Slevin Doherty. Gossett is often credited with “discovering” Cyrus and played a key role in her auditioning for Hannah Montana. She later signed with Jason Morey of Morey Management Group to handle her music career; Dolly Parton steered her to him. She hired her father’s finance manager as part of her team.

Relationships

Cyrus has said that she dated singer-actor Nick Jonas from June 2006 to December 2007, claiming they were “in love” and began dating soon after they first met. Their relationship attracted considerable media attention. Cyrus was in a nine-month relationship with model Justin Gaston from 2008 to 2009. While filming The Last Song, Cyrus began an on-again, off-again relationship with her co-star Liam Hemsworth in 2009. During the breakups, Cyrus was romantically linked to actors Lucas Till (2009) and Josh Bowman (2011). Cyrus and Hemsworth were first engaged from May 2012 until September 2013. She has also dated actor Patrick Schwarzenegger (2014–2015) and model Stella Maxwell (2015).

Cyrus and Hemsworth rekindled their relationship in March 2016,and became re-engaged that October. In November 2018, Cyrus and Hemsworth’s home burned down in the Woolsey Fire in California. On December 23, Cyrus and Hemsworth married in a private wedding ceremony in their home in Nashville. She felt that her marriage “[redefined] what it looks like for someone that’s a queer person like [herself] to be in a hetero relationship” though she was “still very sexually attracted to women”. Cyrus indicated that the ceremony was “kind of out of character for [her]” because “[they have] worn rings forever [and] definitely didn’t need it in any way”. She believed the loss of their home to be the catalyst for getting married, citing that “the timing felt right” and that “no one is promised the next day, or the next, so [she tries] to be ‘in the now’ as much as possible”. On August 10, 2019, Cyrus announced their separation. Eleven days later, Hemsworth filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences”. Their divorce was finalized on January 28, 2020.

Following the announcement of her separation from Hemsworth, she dated Kaitlynn Carter from August to September 2019. In October 2019, Cyrus began dating Australian singer Cody Simpson, a longtime friend. In August 2020, Cyrus announced that she and Simpson had split up. Her announcement coincided with the release of her single “Midnight Sky”, which was inspired by her breakups with Hemsworth, Carter, and Simpson.

Husband and children

Cyrus and Hemsworth married in 2018 and announced their split less than a year later in 2019.

Miley Cyrus is opening up about her divorce from ex-husband Liam Hemsworth and explaining why she doesn’t want to “erase” their relationship from her past.

Miley Cyrus is at the moment not yet married.

Miley Cyrus has no kids for now.

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