'Mean Girls' For Lindsay Lohan

With a string of successful movies under her belt, Lindsay Lohan, 17, is well on her way to becoming a permanent fixture in Hollywood. In the new movie, "Mean Girls", she plays a home-schooled teenage girl who has been away on safari with her parents and has quite a bit to learn about the high school experience.

She dropped by The Early Show Monday to talk about it.

Lohan's first starring role was that of the twins in the 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap." She was only 11, but she had started her career as a model at the age of 3 and went on to work in TV commercials, including one for Jello-O with its famous spokesman, Bill Cosby.

The young actress also had recurring roles on two daytime dramas ("Guiding Light" and "Another World").

With her mother, Dina Lohan, she appeared in the Family Channel series "Healthy Kids." (Her mother, who manages Lohan's career, is a former Radio City Music Hall Rockette.) In the year 2000, Lohan starred in the Disney TV movie "Life-Size" and played Bette Midler's daughter in the pilot of her TV series. (She left the show when production shifted from New York to L.A.)

Last year, she made a splash as Jamie Lee Curtis' daughter in the remake of "Freaky Friday" and, in 2004, she starred in another movie, "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen".

Lohan lives in L.A. now. Her roommate is TV actress Raven – the same Raven Symone who once was a cast member of Bill Cosby's successful TV sitcom in the '80s and early '90s.