For all of you out there with young girls — alert them their favorite celebrity is celebrating their birthday today! Yes, Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana herself, is 17 years old today.

She may be only 17, but Miley is an international sensation. In 2008, she was listed in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and Forbes ranked her #29 on the celebrity earners list in 2009.

We all know Miley is the daughter of country-music star Billy Ray Cyrus, but to learn a little more about how this teen queen got her start, we turned to starpulse.com for the answer.

Miley Cyrus got her start in the entertainment industry on an episode of her father’s PAX TV medical series Doc before appearing in Tim Burton’s fantastical 2003 adventure Big Fish. A fateful appearance as the character Hannah Montana in the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody followed in 2006, and her character proved so popular that a spin-off series called Hannah Montana was launched shortly thereafter.

To learn more about Miley, check out starpulse.com!