Lohan began her career as a model for the Ford Academy at the age of 3. As a model, she found work in more than 60 television commercials.
Her acting ability was soon noticed and she began to work on soap operas such as Another World, The Guiding Light and As The World Turns. Lindsay also appeared on Healthy Kids, a children's health show, along with Dinah Lohan, her mother and business manager.
She moved on to a film career in 1998, reprising the Hayley Mills role in Disney's remake of the 1961 Mills vehicle The Parent Trap. Lohan, as Mills had, plays twin sisters who conspire to reunite their estranged parents. The film, co-starring Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson, introduced Lohan to a wider audience. Her most recent success (as of 2003) was another Disney remake, this time of 1976's Freaky Friday, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis. She is currently pursuing a pop music concurrent with her career in films, and performed her song "Ultimate" in Freaky Friday.
Lohan is involved in charity projects such as The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Foundation, Save The Children, The United Cerebral Palsy Association, and her own charity organization, Dream Come True.