Julianne Alexandra Hough is an American dancer, actress, singer and songwriter. She won season four of the U.S. edition of Dancing with the Stars with her partner, Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater Apolo Ohno. Hough made her acting debut in the 2010 film Burlesque, followed by leading roles in Footloose, Rock of Ages, and Safe Haven. In 2016, she played Sandy in the live Fox television production of Grease.
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Julianne Alexandra Hough is an American dancer, actress, singer and songwriter. She won season four of the U.S. edition of Dancing with the Stars with her partner, Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater Apolo Ohno, making Hough the youngest professional dancer to win on the program. Hough made her acting debut in the 2010 film Burlesque, which was followed by leading roles in Footloose, Rock of Ages, and Safe Haven. In 2016, she played Sandy in the live Fox television production of Grease. She also served as a judge on America’s Got Talent for its 2019 season. For her work on the series, she has received three nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography winning once in 2015 with her brother Derek Hough and Tessandra Chavez. She announced on November 20, 2008 on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, On Air With Ryan, that she would not be returning for the foreseeable future. She returned for season eight, partnering with country singer Chuck Wicks at the time, but they were voted off in the sixth week of the competition. On October 11, 2011, Hough returned to the show, although the pair was ultimately eliminated in the semifinals competition.
She appeared on the November 12 results show dancing the jive to “Great Balls of Fire” with her boyfriend Kenny Wormald twice, twice, and in May 2012, in a dance performance to promote her film “Rock of Ages” Hough was one of the Million Dollar Dancers in the 2006 ABC game show called Show Me the Money. She has three older sisters: Sharee, Marabeth and Katherine. All four of Hough’s grandparents were dancers. She is also a second cousin of musicians Riker, Rydel, Rocky and Ross Lynch from R5, their maternal grandmothers being sisters. Her parents are Marianne and Bruce Hough; her father was twice chairman of the Utah Republican Party. Her brother, Derek Houg, is a professional dancer, and her older sister Sharee is a singer-songwriter. Her father is a former mayor of Orem, Utah, and served as chairman of Utah’s Republican Party from 1998 to 2002. She was born in Orem and raised in a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints family. She attended the Las Vegas Academy and Alta High School. She studied dance at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada. She and her brother also formed their own pop music trio 2B1G.
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