Miley Cyrus Age 2026: How Old Is Miley Cyrus Today?

Last updated: November 10, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Miley Cyrus is 33 years old in 2026. She was born Miley Ray Cyrus — birth name Destiny Hope Cyrus — on November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, which means she turns 34 on November 23, 2026. If a page you read this year still says 32, it is out of date: she turned 33 on November 23, 2025, and has been 33 for almost a full year.

Thirty-three is a useful number for understanding where she stands. She has spent 20 of those years in public — a child star at 13, a tabloid lightning rod at 20, a Grammy winner at 31, a Disney Legend the same year, and, in the autumn of 2026, a 33-year-old releasing her tenth studio album, Bass Persuades, under a single name and returning to a major stage for the first time in four years. Her net worth is estimated at $160 million, per Celebrity Net Worth, and she stands 5 feet 5 inches tall. This is the full picture, kept current to November 10, 2026: the birth date and the math, the Hannah Montana years, the reinventions, the awards, the engagement, the money, and the loss of her godmother Dolly Parton in August 2026.

How Old Is Miley Cyrus in 2026?

Miley Cyrus is 33 years old as of November 10, 2026. The math is simple and it is worth doing out loud, because so many pages get it wrong: born November 23, 1992, she turned 33 on November 23, 2025. She turns 34 on November 23, 2026 — thirteen days from the date this article was last updated.

That makes her one of the rare pop stars whose career can be measured in clean decades. She was 13 when Hannah Montana premiered, 20 when Bangerz remade her image, 27 when her marriage to Liam Hemsworth ended, 31 when “Flowers” won her first Grammys, and 33 when she released her tenth album and played the Hollywood Bowl for the first time. Britannica’s facts page, updated October 23, 2026, lists her as born November 23, 1992, age 33, and Wikipedia’s biography, updated November 9, 2026, gives the same date and birthplace: Franklin, Tennessee.

The confusion online has a clear cause. Age pages are usually written once and left alone, and a page written in 2024 says 31 forever. A page written in early 2025 says 32 forever. Search results from November 2026 still surface both. One aggregator, InfoSeeMedia, updated June 1, 2026, gets it right — “33 years and 11 months old” as of November 2026 — while older pages from the same genre still show 31. If the page you are reading does not mention Bass Persuades or the Hollywood Bowl, it was written before September 2026 and its age is suspect.

Born Destiny Hope Cyrus: The Franklin, Tennessee Childhood

Miley Ray Cyrus was born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville, to country singer Billy Ray Cyrus and Leticia “Tish” Cyrus. The nickname “Miley” came from “Smiley” — she smiled so much as a baby that the name stuck, and she legally changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus in 2008, at 15. She was born with supraventricular tachycardia, a condition that causes an abnormal resting heart rate, a detail Wikipedia’s biography records and she has spoken about since.

She grew up with siblings Brandi, Trace, Braison and Noah in a household where music was the family trade. When she was eight, in 2001, the family moved to Toronto, Ontario, while her father filmed the television series Doc. Her first acting role came there, playing a girl named Kylie in Doc — she was eight years old and already on a set. The family later moved to Los Angeles when Hannah Montana was cast, and she finished school with a private tutor on set through Options for Youth Charter Schools.

Nothing about that childhood was ordinary, and the numbers show it: by the time most of her classmates were picking high-school electives, she was the lead of a Disney franchise, a recording artist with a No. 1 soundtrack, and the face of a merchandising empire. She was 13.

How Old Was Miley Cyrus When Hannah Montana Started?

She was 13 years old when Hannah Montana premiered in March 2006. The audition story is more tangled than the premiere date, and the sources disagree in a way worth naming: Wikipedia’s biography says she auditioned at 13, while its older account and several biographies say she was 11 when she first auditioned — for the role of the best friend, Lilly Truscott — and was initially turned down for being “too small and too young.” A November 2026 report puts it cleanly: she was 11 when she first auditioned in 2004, and by the time the series premiered two years later, the then 13-year-old had become an overnight teen idol.

What is not in dispute is the scale of what followed. The premiere drew the largest audience for a Disney Channel program at the time. The show ran from 2006 to 2011, four seasons, and made her a teen idol before she could drive. Two Hannah Montana soundtracks reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The 2008 concert film Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert turned the tour into a box-office event. She played Miley Stewart, an ordinary schoolgirl living a double life as a pop star — a premise that, in hindsight, described her own life with uncomfortable accuracy.

March 2026 marked the 20th anniversary of the premiere, and Disney marked it with the Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special on Disney+ and Hulu, built around an in-depth interview with Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper. Parade reported on the special in November 2026. Twenty years on, the role she landed as a young teenager is still the first line of her biography — and the yardstick every later reinvention gets measured against.

The Disney Years: 13 to 18

Between 13 and 18, Cyrus released music at a pace that would define the rest of her career. Her debut studio album, Meet Miley Cyrus, arrived in 2007, when she was 14. Breakout followed in 2008, when she was 15. Can’t Be Tamed came in 2010, when she was 17. Each one landed while she was still filming the show that made her famous, and each one moved her a step away from the character that had made her famous.

The film work filled the same years. She voiced Bolt’s owner Penny in Disney’s Bolt in 2008, starred in Hannah Montana: The Movie in 2009, and played the lead in The Last Song in 2010 — the film where she met Liam Hemsworth, then 20, on set. “Party in the U.S.A.”, released in 2009 when she was 16, peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the most durable hit of her Disney era. She was still a teenager when it became a permanent fixture of American pop radio.

She turned 18 in November 2010 with the show ending the following January. Most child stars spend their twenties trying to escape the role that made them. She spent hers doing it in public, at full volume, starting at 20.

20 to 21: Bangerz and the Reinvention

Bangerz arrived in October 2013, when Cyrus was 20, and it did what it was designed to do: it ended the Hannah Montana conversation in a single weekend. The MTV Video Music Awards performance that August — she was 20, twerking beside Robin Thicke — became one of the most talked-about performances of the decade. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “Wrecking Ball” became her first No. 1 single on the Hot 100.

She was 21 when the Bangerz Tour rolled through 2014, and the reinvention stuck because the music held up. “We Can’t Stop” and “Wrecking Ball” are still the songs that define her early-twenties pivot: loud, deliberate, and impossible to mistake for Disney. The haircut, the foam finger, the headlines — all of it was a 20-year-old taking control of an image that had been managed for her since she was 13. Critics argued about the taste. Nobody argued about the intent.

Her Twenties: Experiments, The Voice, and a Marriage

Her twenties ran in a different gear. Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, released free online in August 2015 when she was 22, was a psychedelic experiment made with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips — free, strange, and deliberately uncommercial. She coached on The Voice in seasons 11 and 13, in 2016 and 2017, at 23 and 24. Younger Now arrived in September 2017, when she was 24, a quieter country-leaning record that read as a step back from the noise of Bangerz.

She married Liam Hemsworth in December 2018, at 26, in a small ceremony at home in Tennessee. The marriage lasted less than a year in public: the couple split in August 2019, and the divorce was finalized in January 2020, when she was 27. Hemsworth was born January 13, 1990, which makes him about two years and ten months older than her — a gap that mattered less than the timing. She had been with him, on and off, since she was 17. By 27 she was single, and the next phase of her career — the one that would win her Grammys — was still ahead of her.

She spent the back half of her twenties rebuilding in public again: She Is Coming, an EP, in 2019 at 26; “Slide Away”, released in August 2019 in the month the split was announced, a song that sounded like a goodbye letter set to a beat; and “Midnight Sky” in August 2020, at 27, a glittering disco-rock single that announced the Plastic Hearts era and her return to the sound she grew up on. The through-line of the decade is restlessness. No two consecutive albums in her twenties sound alike, and that is the point — she has never made the same record twice.

28 to 31: Plastic Hearts, “Flowers”, and the First Grammys

Plastic Hearts arrived in November 2020, when Cyrus was 28, and it was the best-reviewed album of her career to that point — glam rock, Stevie Nicks and Joan Jett guest spots, and a voice that finally sounded settled. It set up the run that followed. Endless Summer Vacation came in March 2023, when she was 30, and its lead single “Flowers” spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the biggest hit of her career, and a song widely read as an answer to her divorce.

On February 4, 2024, at 31, she won her first two Grammy Awards: Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance, both for “Flowers”. She had been nominated before and lost; this time she won the biggest prize in the room. The song had been released in January 2023, and its eight-week run at the top of the Hot 100 made it the defining hit of her thirties — a self-reliance anthem that landed hardest with listeners who had followed the marriage and the divorce in real time. The same year, at 31, she became the youngest person ever named a Disney Legend, honored at the D23 fan event on August 11, 2024. The symmetry was hard to miss: the company that had made her famous at 13 was honoring her at 31 for surviving it and outgrowing it.

32: Something Beautiful

Something Beautiful, her ninth studio album, arrived on May 30, 2025, when Cyrus was 32, with a companion film that premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June 2025. It was a visual album in the fullest sense — a film built around the record, and a record built to be seen as much as heard. She described the project as a love story, and the through-line she later named for the next record — that a peaceful kind of love had become a theme across her last three records — starts here.

She was 32 and, by her own account in 2025, had no desire to tour. The Something Beautiful era was a studio and film project, not a road show. That restraint makes what happened at 33 all the more striking: a new album, a new label, a new name, and a return to the stage she had been avoiding for four years.

33: Bass Persuades, the Mononym, and the Hollywood Bowl

On August 31, 2026, Cyrus dropped her last name across her social media accounts and began going by simply “Miley”. The next day, September 1, she announced her tenth studio album, Bass Persuades, releasing September 18, 2026, through Atlantic Records — her first album with Atlantic after leaving Columbia earlier in the year. The album has ten tracks, including collaborations with Model/Actriz on “Different Religion” and Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow. The title single arrived September 3, 2026, with a video directed by Mert Alas.

The record debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, on the chart dated October 3, 2026, with 61,000 album-equivalent units. She was 33, and it was her first No. 1 album in years — a reminder that the audience that grew up with her is still buying what she makes, and that a tenth album can still open at the top of the chart.

Then came the stage. On October 16 and 18, 2026, she played the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles — billed as “Miley: Bass Persuades — Live at the Hollywood Bowl” — her first major performance in nearly four years and her first time on that stage, before crowds of roughly 18,000 a night. She spoke on stage about finding a balance between work and home life, and about touring making sobriety hard. When clips from the first night drew accusations that she had not sung every lyric live, she answered the critics at the sold-out second show on October 18. It was a 33-year-old’s return, on her own terms, in a room that had waited four years to see her.

Dolly Parton: Godmother, Mentor, and a Loss at 33

Dolly Parton was Cyrus’s godmother — “Aunt Dolly” to her — and the most important mentor of her life. Parton died on August 25, 2026, at age 80, after what her family described as a brief battle with cancer. Cyrus was 33, and the loss landed weeks before the album she had discussed with Parton in their final conversation was due to come out.

She shared details of that last conversation in September 2026, on Apple Music’s The Zane Lowe Show: they had talked about the Bass Persuades album, and about keeping a public persona without losing the person underneath it. “I think a way that I could look at that as, you can still have a persona and still be who you are, is because I had Dolly,” she said. At the Hollywood Bowl on October 16, five songs into her first major show in four years, she stopped to pay tribute to her late godmother, breaking down in tears before singing “Jolene” and telling the crowd, “We are eternal.”

Parton had been a presence in Cyrus’s life since childhood — a family friend who became a godmother, a collaborator, and the model for how to be a famous woman from Tennessee without being consumed by it. The tribute at the Bowl was the most emotional moment of the comeback, and the one the audience remembered.

Miley Cyrus’s Net Worth at 33

Miley Cyrus’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $160 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, whose snapshot is dated November 5, 2026. Parade, reporting in November 2026, gives the same figure and attributes it to Celebrity Net Worth. That is the headline number, and this article uses it as the anchor because it is the figure the reporting converges on — but readers should know what kind of number it is. Forbes publishes no current net-worth figure for her, and the $160 million is an outside estimate rather than a confirmed accounting of her finances. Her exact assets, investments and annual earnings have not been publicly disclosed.

The money comes from four streams that have been compounding since she was a teenager: music royalties and streaming across ten studio albums; touring, including the Bangerz Tour and the Best of Both Worlds concert run; television, from Hannah Montana through two seasons coaching The Voice; and brand deals. Real estate is part of the picture too — she has bought and sold houses from Tennessee to Malibu, per Celebrity Net Worth’s reporting. For a fuller breakdown of how the $160 million figure is built up, see Miley Cyrus’s $160 million net worth on our sister site NetWorthCraft, and Miley Cyrus’s net worth on CelebAmerica, which traces the same fortune from her Disney years to the Bass Persuades era.

One thing the number does not show is how early it started. She was earning before she could vote, and she has been earning ever since — which is why a 33-year-old can carry a nine-figure estimate while peers who started as adults are still building theirs. The $160 million is not a lottery win. It is twenty years of paychecks, catalogued.

Personal Life at 33: Maxx Morando, Family, and Giving Back

Cyrus became engaged to musician Maxx Morando, 27, in 2025, after dating for nearly five years — since 2021. A diamond ring photographed at the Avatar: Fire and Ash premiere in December 2025 set off the first public speculation, and reporting in October 2026 confirmed the engagement. Morando is a drummer; the two met through music, and the relationship has stayed notably quieter than her marriage to Hemsworth. At the Hollywood Bowl in October 2026, clips from the first night drew accusations that she was not engaged — she answered the critics at the second show.

Family is the other constant. Her mother Tish, 59, stood beside her at the Downtown Women’s Center’s Every Woman Housed Gala on October 10, 2026, where the two were honored for their charitable work. At that gala, Cyrus announced a $1 million donation through the Miley Cyrus Foundation to support Rosa’s Place, a housing development in Los Angeles’s Skid Row neighborhood that will provide permanent homes for 97 women, including survivors of domestic violence and homelessness. The project is expected to open in 2027. “Now, in my 30s, family is my priority above all else,” she wrote on Instagram in 2025. “I’m at peace knowing bridges have been built and time has done a lot of healing.” By June 2025 she had described herself as best friends with her mother and on better footing with her father — a thaw after years of public distance.

How Tall Is Miley Cyrus?

Miley Cyrus is 5 feet 5 inches tall (165 cm). The figure is consistent across biography sources, and it is worth stating plainly because the internet disagrees with itself on almost every celebrity height. She has never made height a talking point; it is one of the few numbers about her that nobody argues over.

For scale: she is two inches shorter than Selena Gomez’s reported 5 feet 7 inches. Her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, at 6 feet 3 inches, towered over her by ten inches during their marriage — a gap that was a running visual joke in red-carpet photos for a decade.

Miley Cyrus’s Age Compared to Her Peers

Age only means something in context, and Cyrus’s context is a generation of Disney and pop stars who all turned 30 within a few years of each other. The table below lines her up against the peers she is most often compared with, using birth dates reported by Britannica and Wikipedia.

The comparison cuts two ways. Gomez, born four months before Cyrus, is the richest of the group by a wide margin on the strength of Rare Beauty. Swift, three years older, is the richest pop star in the world. Cyrus sits in the middle on money and in the middle on age — and ahead of all of them on one measure: she has been famous the longest, with a career that started before any of them had a record deal. For the full picture of her closest peer’s fortune, see Selena Gomez’s net worth on Guide Net Worth.

Why So Many Sites Still Say Miley Cyrus Is 32

Search “Miley Cyrus age” and the first page of results will show you 31, 32 and 33 side by side. All three were right once. A page written in 2024 that says 31 was right in 2024. A page written in early 2025 that says 32 was right until November 23, 2025. The problem is that age pages are rarely updated, and the search results do not carry a visible “written on” date next to the number.

The fix is to check the page for a 2026 fact. If it mentions Bass Persuades, the Hollywood Bowl, or Dolly Parton’s death, it was written after September 2026 and its age is current. If its newest fact is Something Beautiful or the 2024 Grammys, it predates her 33rd birthday and its number is stale. And if it says 31, it was written before November 2023 — three birthdays ago. The correct answer, as of November 10, 2026, is 33, turning 34 on November 23, 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Reporting

This article was researched on 10 November 2026 from live reporting: Britannica (facts page, updated 23 October 2026) for the November 23, 1992 birth date and the age of 33; Wikipedia (updated 9 November 2026) for the Franklin, Tennessee birthplace, the Destiny Hope Cyrus birth name, the supraventricular tachycardia, the Toronto move at age eight, the Doc role, the Hannah Montana audition and premiere, the March 2006 premiere audience, and the legal name change in 2008; Celebrity Net Worth (snapshot 5 November 2026) for the $160 million estimate; Parade (November 2026) for the same $160 million figure, the Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special on Disney+ and Hulu with Alex Cooper, and the Taylor Swift $2 billion comparison; TBS News, Just Jared, EntertainmentNow and UNILAD (October 17–19, 2026) for the Hollywood Bowl shows of October 16 and 18, 2026, the roughly 18,000 crowds, the “Jolene” tribute, the “We are eternal” line, and Dolly Parton’s death on August 25, 2026, at age 80; Zoom TV and Far Out Magazine (September 2026) for the final conversation with Parton on Apple Music’s The Zane Lowe Show; iHeart, YourLifeBuzz and elpee.jp (September–October 2026) for the August 31, 2026 mononym rebrand, the September 18, 2026 Bass Persuades release through Atlantic Records, the ten tracks, the Model/Actriz and Andrew Wyatt collaborations, the September 3 title single, and the No. 1 Billboard 200 debut with 61,000 units; Thought Catalog (October 19, 2026) for the second Hollywood Bowl show and the engagement speculation; elrisala (October 31, 2026) for the 2004 audition at age 11, the engagement to Maxx Morando, 27, in 2025 after nearly five years together, and the 2025 family reconciliation; worldmanual.co.uk (October 27, 2026, via PEOPLE) for the October 10, 2026 $1 million donation through the Miley Cyrus Foundation, Rosa’s Place, the 97 homes, and the Downtown Women’s Center gala; InfoSeeMedia (June 1, 2026) for the “33 years and 11 months” age and the 5 feet 5 inches height; and celebvs for the Ariana Grande $240 million comparison. Where sources disagreed — the Hannah Montana audition age, the stale 31- and 32-year-old listings — the article names the disagreement instead of picking a number silently. Corrections are welcome via the About page.