Miranda Cosgrove

Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14, 1993) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Cosgrove's career began at the age of three when she appeared in television commercials. Her film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock. Cosgrove appeared in a number of minor television roles over several years before coming to prominence on the Nickelodeon TV series Drake & Josh. A few years later, Cosgrove landed the role of Carly Shay the lead character in the Nickelodeon TV series iCarly. As of May 2010, Cosgrove earned US$180,000 per episode of iCarly, making her the second-highest-paid child star on television.She was listed in the 2012 edition of Guinness World Records as the Highest Paid Child Actress for iCarly. Following the success of iCarly, an ICarly (soundtrack) was released in June 2008, in which she performed four songs. Cosgrove's debut album Sparks Fly was released on April 27, 2010. As of Fall 2012, she is furthering her education by going to USC (University of Southern California). She has no plans to quit acting or singing however.

Early Life
Cosgrove was born in Los Angeles, California, to Tom, who owns a dry cleaning business, and Chris (née Casey), a stay-at-home mother. She is of English, Irish, and French descent. At the age of three, she was discovered by a talent agent while singing and dancing at the Los Angeles restaurant Taste of L.A. Cosgrove stated that when the agent walked up to her and her mom for modeling, she had "never really thought of being an actress and was lucky. After choosing to take the offer, she appeared in television commercials for McDonald's and Mello Yello, and also modeled. At the age of seven, Cosgrove decided that she loved doing it" and auditioned for theater and television roles.

Career
In 2001, Cosgrove's first acting role was uncredited. She was the voice of the 3-year-old Lana Lang in the first episode of Smallville. Afterwards, she had many other small roles in various television series, and appeared in a starring role as Summer Hathaway in the 2003 film School Of Rock. Her claim to fame was when she was cast as Megan Parker in the 2004 Nickelodeon TV series, Drake and Josh, which gained a massive following. In 2007, she was cast in another Nickelodeon TV series iCarly as the main character Carly Shay, who makes her own webshow acting alongside Kayla Marie Lee, Jennette McCurdy, Jerry Trainor and Nathan Kress. The film Despicable Me features Miranda Cosgrove, who voices an orphan girl named Margo, and daughter-figure to an evil mastermind criminal. This film was released in 2010.In February of 2010 she announced that she was to be the new face of Neutrogena, starring in a television commercial endorsing the product. She inked a deal for 26 more episodes of iCarly, bringing the total episodes to 96. She said she still loves making iCarly and won't stop acting and singing, even with her upcoming S.A.T. tests and looking to start college next year.

She appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine talking about her career, family (her parents Tom and Chris), and her schooling from public to home schooling.

Singing
Cosgrove made her music debut in 2007, singing the theme song for iCarly called "Leave It All To Me" which features On June 10, 2008, the soundtrack to iCarly was released, including "About You Now" originally by the Sugababes. Her first live performance was the the YMCA's 2010 pre-show.



Dancing Crazy Summer Tour
It was announced that Cosgrove will tour all over United States. Joining Cosgrove on tour was YouTube phenom, Greyson Chance, who gained notoriety in 2010. The star trek supported her debut studio album. It features songs such as "Stay MY baby" which was co-written by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, who produced it. It started on January 24, 2011 in Kansas City.

On August 11, 2011, Miranda Cosgrove's tour bus was involved in a traffic collision on interstate 70 in Vandalia, Illinois. Five passengers were injured including Miranda Cosgrove herself, who suffered a broken ankle.

Trivia

 * Miranda is still close with her co-star Josh Peck and has recently appeared in one of his vlogs on his YouTube channel.

Credits to

 * iCarly Wiki on Fandom