Hilary Duff will be appearing in a drama series currently under development on Hulu, entitled “Pretty Ugly.”
The show is based on Kirker Butler’s 2015 novel of the same name and comes from director Silver Tree, 20th TV, director of Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Butler will also write the series.
Duff plays Miranda Miller, a mother whose life’s mission is to make her 10-year-old daughter Bailey a pageant for America’s most successful children.
“Miranda, the former teenage pageant queen herself, dreams of advocacy deals, beauty brands and television shows,” reads Logline. “But Bailey doesn’t want that. She’s been doing pageant since burning out at three months old. But Miranda can’t imagine a blunt.
Meanwhile, while Miranda is busy building a pageant empire, her husband Ray, a pill-popping nurse, knocks up the 18-year-old granddaughter of one of his hospice patients. And her mother, Joan, is a widow closure and plots a murder with Jesus. According to the catchphrase, “It’s all pretty ugly.”
Duff is best known for her lead role in the Disney Channel comedy series “Lizzie McGuire,” which produced the 2003 film. As a teenage actor, she also appeared in Steve Martin’s “Cheap and Dozens of Films,” “A Cinderella Story,” and “Agent Cody Banks.” Recently, Duff starred as Kelsey Peters in the TV Land drama Young, and she produced and starred as Sophie Tompkins in Full’s How I Met Your Father.
Butler is an Emmy-nominated author and producer whose credits include “Murders in the Building Only,” “Family Guy,” “Cleveland Show,” and “Neighbor.”
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