(ABOVE) Actress, singer, and songwriter Miley Cyrus, AKA Hannah Montana, is interviewed at the Santa Monica Pier on Wednesday, July 19, 2008, while filming an episode for Disney Channel's hit television series. (TOP)  A Hannah Montana double stands in for a scene.  Hannah Montana is an Emmy Award-nominated American television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006, on Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus) by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night. Concealing her real identity from the public, other than her close friends and family.