Amanda Lee Williford (born January 22, 1981),[1] known by her stage name Willa Ford, is an American interior designer and former singer, songwriter, television personality, film actress, dancer, and model.
Ford also has appeared in movies such as Friday the 13th (2009), hosted several reality television shows, posed for Playboy and competed on ABC's Dancing with the Stars.
At age 11, she started singing with the Tampa-based children's performing arts troupe, Entertainment Revue.
[citation needed] In 1999, the 18-year-old Ford started performing under the stage name Mandah and was signed to MCA.
In 2001, Ford signed on to a new label, Lava Atlantic Records, while on a mall tour for Nautica Kids.
The album included the single "I Wanna Be Bad" which featured rapper Royce da 5'9".
In 2001, Ford also co-wrote and recorded a duet with South Korean pop star Park Ji-yoon.
In 2014, she was featured in the song "Rock Tonight" by Willa Ford, Eve Nelson and Ray Cervenka.
[2] In 2002, Ford appeared in an episode of the short-lived television sitcom Raising Dad, playing a bully named Edie.
Ford appeared on an episode of My Celebrity Home on the Style Network, which aired on January 31, 2007[5] She also hosted the third season of Pants-Off Dance-Off on Fuse TV.
On August 23, 2007, Ford and her then-husband, NHL hockey player Mike Modano, were featured in an episode of MTV Cribs.
Ford played Becca in the direct-to-video Universal Squadrons, which was first shown at the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival in 2010.
[11] Ford and hockey player Mike Modano married in a small, private ceremony on August 25, 2007, in Athens, Texas.