Miranda Cosgrove



Miranda Taylor Cosgrove ( Los Angeles , May 141993 ) [1]  is an Americanfilm and television actress , singer , voice artist , presenter and songwriter . Cosgrove is best known for her roles as Megan Parker in Drake & Josh and the title character Carly Shay in iCarly . She began her career as a three-year, mainly due to appearances in commercials . Cosgroves film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock . After years of small television appearances, Cosgrove was known by Drake & Josh and later by iCarly . Cosgrove earns 180,000 dollars per episode of iCarly, giving her a second position of highest paid young actress in the world. [2]  Following the success of iCarly was a soundtrack album released on June 10, 2008, which they themselves inzong four numbers. Cosgrove has on April 27, 2010 her debut album , Sparks Fly, released. [3]



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[ hide ]  *1 Youth Years and discovery  ==Youth Years and discovery [ edit] == Cosgrove was born on May 14, 1993 in Los Angeles ( California ), as a child of Tom Cosgrove, owner of a dry cleaner, and Christine, a housewife . She is an only child. [4 ] [5]  When Cosgrove was three years old, she was discovered by a talent scout while singing and dancing in the restaurant Taste of LA . [4]  Cosgrove later said in an interview that she has had a lot of luck. After she accepted the offer, she got small roles in commercials for Burger King[6]  and Mello Yello, and she did modeling work. From its seventh year Cosgrove did auditions for television and theater, which eventually led to bigger roles in films and television series. [7]
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 2001-2006: Growth to fame
 * 2.1.1 2007-2010: iCarly and music career
 * 2.2 2010-present: Continued music and television career
 * 3 Personal life
 * 4 Filmography
 * 5 Discography
 * 5.1 Albums
 * 5.2 Extended plays
 * 5.3 Soundtracks
 * 6 Awards and nominations
 * 7 External links

Cosgrove went to Maude Price Elementary School in Downey (California) . From 2006 she gets private lessons and works as an e-learning system . ==Career [ edit] == ===2001-2006: Growth to fame [ edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Cosgroves first television appearance was in 2001 as a 5-year old Lana Lang in the pilot episode of Smallville . Cosgrove shortly thereafter made ​​her film debut in the movie School of Rock(2003), with Jack Black . In this film she plays the role of Summer Hathaway, a girl with big ambitions and a lot of discipline. They eventually band manager of rock band who formed the class. School of Rock was a popular film, which worldwide yielded about $ 132 million <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-School_of_Rock_2003_8-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  and a rating of 91% was on Rotten Tomatoes . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  David Ansen, critic for Newsweek, assessed her acting as "faultless". <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ 10]  Cosgrove described working with Jack Black as follows: "The first week I did not know what came over me, 'Oh my God, that's Jack Black!" But the two weeks that followed were fine, he's a hilarious guy sometimes... The director even had to demand that he should not worry, because we thereby becoming lost our concentration. "us all the time laughing <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-autogenerated2_12-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  She also felt that her singing was very awkward scene in the movie. "I got a lesson of 45 minutes from Jim O'Rourke of Sonic Youth, in which he taught me to sing false. before I had been singing for five years, so it was quite difficult to learn how to sing.'s director false kept saying, 'Try to sing Miranda even more false', "says Cosgrove. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-Biography_Today_6-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  She is grateful for the fact that she played in the movie, because it exposed her to the music genre classic rock . "After the movie I discovered bands like Led Zeppelin and I picked up the electric guitar on ". <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-Biography_Today_6-2" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">From 2004 Cosgroves career was in full speed towards Hollywood . She had several guest roles, in a special episode of the animated series ''? What's New, Scooby-Doo, and in an episode of the fifth season of Grounded For Life'' . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15] Cosgrove was offered her first major role in a television, the character Megan Parker in the Nick showDrake & Josh, where she protagonists alongside Drake Bell and Josh Peck played. The show debuted on January 11, 2004 and received positive responses. Cosgrove stated, "We are a big family, we know each other like no other, nothing is more embarrassing it is very comfortable and very nice to work like..". <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-autogenerated4_17-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]  While working for Drake & Josh, she developed a friendship with Dan Schneider, the producer of the series and is known by various other Nick shows , including Zoey 101 , The Amanda Show , Kenan & Kel and All That .

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2005, Cosgrove worked for the film Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie ., in which she played the role of Munch <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  In the same year she had a guest appearance in two episodes of the animated television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and played the role of Joni in the comedy film Yours, Mine and Ours , along with her ​​colleague Drake Bell . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]  The film opened in third place in the biscopen, with a weekend proceeds of $ 17,461,108 in the United States . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-Weekend_Gross_21-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]  In 2006, her third movie came out, Keeping Up with the Steins, which was assessed. quite negative <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-rottentomatoes.com_24-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24]  She also starred in this year in the film The Wild Stallion ( direct-to-video ). This film, however, was not released until 2009. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25] ====2007-2010: iCarly and music career <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==== Cosgrove, along with Michelle Obama and Jennette McCurdy, see backstage action.<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Cosgrove began the year 2007 with various roles in shows of the Nickelodeon network. Her first role was in Zoey 101, a show with Jamie Lynn Spears and Victoria Justice . Cosgrove then starred in an episode of Unfabulous with Emma Roberts . On September 16, 2007 ended the successful television series Drake & Josh, where Cosgrove played in three years.However, Cosgrove was already negotiating a follow-up project, in partnership with Dan Schneider , in which she had a starring role. This concept led to the production of iCarly .

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Schneider iCarly founded on the fact that the youth of today are interested in the internet. A unique part of the series was the ability to send, then that would be used in the show. Itself movies Cosgrove reviewed the concept as follows: "When I heard the idea for the first time, it sounded like a cool idea if I myself was watching TV, I too would like to send in a video.".<span class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-autogerated1_27-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  In the summer 2008 was the show on the third position in the class 9-14 years. The "iCarly Saves TV" television movie was the series in the first place is blown, then until 2010 is not going away. Because <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-Biography_Today_6-3" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Cosgrove debuted her singing career with the song " Leave It All to Me ", the soundtrack of her series iCarly . The song was written by former colleague Drake Bell and Michael Corcoran, one of the band members of Bell. The song was released digitally in December 2007 <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-28" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28]  and finished in 100th place in the Billboard Hot 100 . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]  In June 2008, Columbia Records, the soundtrack album of iCarly from called iCarly - Music From and Inspired by the Hit TV Show which four number Cosgrove stand ("Leave It All to Me", " Stay My Baby ","About You Now "and" Headphones On "). <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-icarlyreview_30-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30]  The album debuted at the first position in the BillboardKid Albums . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-autogenerated3_31-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[31]  Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic felt that Cosgrove had "proved herself as a sparkling singer" <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-icarlyreview_30-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30]  . The subsequent single, Stay My Baby, do not. earned the charts Her third song the other hand, About You Now, achieved the 47th position in the Billboard Hot 100 in January 2009. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[32]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Cosgrove was named one of MTV's Female Pop Rookies of 2009. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[33]  In December 2008 it was a cover of the Christmas song " Christmas Wrapping "was released, to promote the television movie Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh . This song was sung by Cosgrove and served as the soundtrack for the film. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[34]  On February 3, 2009 Cosgrove released her first extended play , About You Now, exclusively on the iTunes Store from. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-ayn_35-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]  The EP includes the original number, remix it, a remix of "Stay My Baby", and two new songs, " FYI "and" Party Girl ". <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-ayn_35-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]  To promote the animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), Cosgrove sang the song " Raining Sunshine "for the film. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[36]

Cosgrove during her tour.<p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">As of July 2008, there are plans for a debut album for Cosgrove. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-album_37-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[37]  During an interview with MTV News, Cosgrove said she, along with her ​​team, busy writing. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-album_37-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[37]  In contrast to its previous iCarly album would his album otherwise. "The songs I've chosen mean a lot to me., The pop-rock genre remains in force, but the level is more mature. The songs are mostly about love and hang out with friends," says Cosgrove. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-album_37-2" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[37 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-38" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[38]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">During the release of About You Now-ep, the concept was further developed and created a complete picture, in which the next phase, the "singing the songs" were concerned. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-newep_39-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39]  Cosgrove described the collaboration with music producers such as The Matrix and [http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr._Luke&action=edit&redlink=1 Dr.. Luke], and songwriters like Leah Haywood and Daniel James, as "totally implausible". <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-newep_39-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-40" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[40]  She announced that most of the songs on the album fun, upbeat songs, but there is a ballad rose, called 'What Are You Waiting For? '. This song she wrote herself, and is about a girl who is in love with a boy, but he does not feel the same for her. She later explained that this was about herself. "There are certain friends that I'm in love, but I want the friendship does not spoil." <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-newep_39-2" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39 ] <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[41]  The album debuted end on April 27, 2010, <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-42" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[42]  and the lead single from the album, " Kissin 'U ", had its debut during the radio show Ryan Seacrest on March 12, 2010, after which he was on March 23, 2010. published <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[43]  The album, Sparks Fly, debuted in eighth position in the U.S. Billboard 200 . ===2010-present: Continued music and television career <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Cosgrove signed on February 12, 2010 a contract with Neutrogena, to serve as national ambassador for the cosmetics company<span class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[44]  A few months later, in July 2010, was Cosgrove heard in the animated movie Despicable Me , asMargo , the adopted daughter of Steve Carrell , the role of Gru played. In January 2011, Cosgrove announced that she was going to release, a new EP called High Maintenance<span class="reference" id="cite_ref-singlen_45-0" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[45]  . From this ep two singles would be released <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-singlen_45-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[45]  . The first song, " Dancing Crazy ", was written by Max Martin , Shellback, and Avril Lavigne , and produced by Martin and Shellback. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-46" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[46]  The song debuted on the fortieth position in the Billboard Adult Pop Songs . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-singlen_45-2" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[45]  Her next single , High Maintenance, written and sung by Cosgrove and Rivers Cuomo , singer of Weezer .

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">As of January 24, 2011 until February 20, 2011 Cosgrove held her first tour, the Dancing Crazy Tour, the United States . Greyson Chance did the opening act. In April it was announced that the tour would be extended to the rest of the United States, Canada and Brazil . The tour lasted originally from July 2011 to November 2011, but was on August 112011 shut down due to a car accident with the tour bus for the crew. Cosgrove suffered a broken ankle on. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-47" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[47]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On May 2, 2011 Cosgrove began filming the fifth season of iCarly . The following is a sixth season that will be. Seen in the spring in America The shooting of the season began on January 30, 2012. ==Personal life <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] == <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Cosgrove had a poodle named Pearl as a pet. When it died in 2012 at age 14 from kidney failure, she said the following to People magazine: "Pearl was a part of our family and because I'm an only child, she was very important to me."<span class="reference" id="cite_ref-48" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[48]  She also tweeted also that she would always love. Pearl <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[49]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Since the autumn of 2012, Cosgrove goes to the University of Southern California . She decided to study so that she can stay with her ​​family there and continue to go into acting. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-50" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[50]  In October 2012 Cosgrove bought a house for 2.65 million COH dollars with three bedrooms and an area of 269.42 sqm. The house is located twenty minutes from where she studies. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-51" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[51] ==Filmography <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] == Cosgrove, along with Joey Luthman, during the filming of "iCarly" in May 2009 ==Discography <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] == ===Albums <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === ===Extended plays <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] === ===Soundtracks <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ Edit] === ==Awards and nominations <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] ==
 * Sparks Fly (2010)
 * About You Now (2009)
 * High Maintenance (2011)
 * iCarly (soundtrack) (2008)
 * iCarly (soundtrack) (2012)