Morgan York (born January 18, 1993) is an American novelist,

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best known for her roles as Kim Baker in the first 2 films of ''

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'', Lulu in ''

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'' (2005) and as Sarah in the

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''. York retired from acting at age 17 in 2010 and is currently an author, podcaster and book publisher living in New York City.

Career

Born in

, she made her on-screen debut at just 18 months old in a commercial for

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ThermoScan Thermometer. Her first major film role came in 2003 when she starred in ''

'' as Kim Baker, which won York and her cast-mates the Young Artist Award for "Best Young Ensemble in a Feature Film" for their performances the following year. Following the awards, she starred as Lulu Plummer in ''

'', whose performance was well received. In the summer of 2005, York headed back to

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to film ''

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''. From 2006 to 2010, York appeared in 11 episodes of the

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'', after which she retired from acting. She stated she would not return to acting in the future.

Personal life

Morgan York was born in

, a suburb within the

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. Following the conclusion of her ''Sarah'' character run on ''Hannah Montana'', she decided to retire from acting to pursue her passion of authoring

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. On her blog and via her

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handle, she stated "the older I got, and the more I felt like writing was my true calling (authoring young adult novels)." This was later cited in a number of sources a decade later whiles recollecting television productions aimed at children and adolescents made in the 2000s and 2010s and its stars making comebacks in the form of reunions following the onset of the global

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. She graduated with a self-designed degree in "Writing Fiction: Listening, Absorbing, and Creating" at

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in 2015. In 2012, she wrote a blog post saying that she was intending to pursue a career as a young adult novelist. On 14 July 2019, she shared her moments of marriage to Danny Haddad via

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. On November 9, 2023, York revealed on Instagram that she had given birth to a daughter.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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EFilmCritic interview
(June 26, 2005; archived) * Morgan York as "tolstoyce" on

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