- Julianne Alexandra Hough (born July 20, 1988) is an American dancer, singer, and actress.
- She is a two-time professional champion on DWTS.
- She was nominated for a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy in 2007 for Outstanding Choreography in season five of the show.
- Her first leading acting role was in the 2011 film remake of Footloose.
- In September 2014, she joined Dancing with the Stars as a permanent fourth judge.
- Along with her brother Derek and Tessandra Chavez, won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography in 2015.
-Hough was born in Orem, Utah, the youngest of five children in a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) family.
- She also has three older sisters, Sharee, Marabeth, and Katherine.
- She is also a second cousin of musicians Riker, Rydel, Rocky and Ross Lynch from R5.
- She began dancing competitively at nine.
- When she was 10, her divorcing parents sent her and brother Derek to London to live and study with their coaches, Corky and Shirley Ballas.
- She formed a pop music trio 2B1G ("2 Boys, 1 Girl") with Derek and Mark when she was 12.
- At 15, Julianne Hough became the youngest dancer, and only American, to win both Junior World Latin Dance Festival.
- She dated fellow country singer Chuck Wicks from August 2008 to November 2009; when the two had a mutual break-up, it inspired Hough's song "Is That So Wrong".
- She dated Ryan Seacrest from April 2010 to March 2013.
- In February 2014, she began dating NHL professional hockey player Brooks Laich.The couple announced their engagement on August 18, 2015.
