Not since Jerry Seinfeld’s portrayal of the titular character in the show Seinfeld has an actor accepted such a challenging, transformational tv role as Hilary Duff’s upcoming Gossip Girl appearance:

Attention Upper East Siders! Hilary Duff is joining the cast of Gossip Girl!

The actress will join the series for a multi-episode story arc this fall, the CW confirms to Usmagazine.com.

Duff, 21, will play a movie star named Olivia Burke who enrolls at NYU in search of a traditional, out-of-the-spotlight college experience. She will be roommates with Vanessa (played by Jessica Szohr).

Good luck with that! We’ll see if Duff’s “Teen Celebrity Dealing With The Gossip Press” character is half as convincing as Jim Belushi’s portrayal of the “unfunny dad” on According to Jim or Kiefer Sutherland’s “short dude who injures people” on 24.