Author & Actress Lilah Fitzgerald On The Book That Changed Her Life

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As a part of our series about pop culture’s rising stars, we had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Lilah Fitzgerald.

Born in the small Silver Star Mountain town of Okanagan in British Columbia, Canada, Fitzgerald grew up “mountain schooled” with nature as her classroom, spending most of her time outside. From the moment that she realized that the people on her TV screen were real, she knew that she wanted to be an actor. At the age of 4 she convinced her mother to let her do theatre and she was cast in a local production of The Sound of Music. She began going to auditions in Vancouver and at the age of 7 booked a small role on the CW series “Hellcats” opposite Ashley Tisdale. Famed choreographer Debbie Allen, who directed the series, told her she should get into dancing and shortly thereafter she began taking ballet. At the age of 11 she was awarded the prestigious LEO AWARD for “Lead Performance by a Female in a Television Movie” for her work in the film MY NEW BEST FRIEND, beating out adult actors and making her one of the youngest stars to win the award. While in Los Angeles for acting work she…