Background
Michalka was born in Torrance, California. Her father, Mark, owns a contracting company, and her mother, Carrie, is a musician and performed with JC Band, a Christian band.
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Career
AJ recorded the theme song and accompanying music video for the film Secretariat, entitled "lieutenant"s Who You Are". She also issued a single and video called "All I"ve Ever Needed" from her 2013 film Grace Unplugged. She has also had a successful acting career, and after two seasons in a recurring role as Lainey Lewis on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom The Goldbergs, she has been promoted to a regular role on the series for the third season onward.
She has Ukrainian, German, British (English, Scottish and Welsh) and Irish ancestry.
Michalka has been playing the piano since she was six and started playing the guitar in her early teens. She started acting when she was five years old, mostly in church play productions.
She was raised as a Christian and continues to practice the faith. Michalka was in a number of musical productions at her school in Milwaukee as a young adult.
She plays a variety of instruments such as acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, and bongos.
She was a model for catalogs. In March 2006, she made her Disney Channel debut in the Disney Channel Original Movie Cow Belles, as "Courtney Callum", along with sister Aly, as "Taylor Callum". She has also made appearances on shows such as Oliver Beene, Six Feet Under, The Guardian, and General Hospital.
In 2009, she was featured in the Peter Jackson film The Lovely Bones, released widely on January 15, 2010.
They have released two studio albums and a holiday album. The two are working on a new album, to be released in 2014.
The series ran for one season and was cancelled in May 2011. Michalka appeared in the 2011 film Super 8, directed by J. J. Abrams.
Her first big-screen starring role is as the title character in 2013"s Grace Unplugged.
Since 2013, Michalka has had a recurring role on the American Broadcasting Company sitcom, The Goldbergs, as Lainey Lewis, the girlfriend of one of the main characters on the show. In May 2015, it was announced that she would be a series regular for the show"s upcoming third season. The film was directed and written by Aly"s husband, Stephen Ringer.
In early May 2015, it was announced the film, now titled, Weepah Way for Now, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 16, 2015.
