Miranda Cosgrove

Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14, 1993)[1] is an American teen actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Megan Parker in Drake and Josh, Summer Hathaway in School of Rock and as Carly Shay in iCarly. Her career began in 2001 when she was spotted by an agent who was so impressed by her singing and dancing in a restaurant called "Taste of LA" that he signed her up for a number of small roles in commercials.[2][3] She is currently starring in iCarly.
Born Miranda Taylor Cosgrove
May 14, 1993 (age 16)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress/Singer
Years active 2001–present

When Miranda Cosgrove was eight years old, she sang and danced at a restaurant called "Taste of LA." A talent agent was impressed, and signed her up for his talent agency. This led to a career in advertising soon after, as well as other roles and shows. She currently stars on Nickelodeon's iCarly and is credited with four songs on the soundtrack. She began homeschooling after she finished elementary school, at Maude Price Elementary School in Downey, California, and then enrolled in an online school program which she has been doing since 2006. She is an only child.[2][3]

Career

Actress

In 2001 Cosgrove did her first acting role as Lana Lang at age 8 in the TV series Smallville, and after that 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.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 character Carly Shay, who makes her own webshow, acting alongside Jennette McCurdy, Jerry Trainor and Nathan Kress

Singer

Cosgrove made her music debut in 2007, singing the theme song for iCarly called Leave It All to Me, which features her Drake and Josh lead actor, Drake Bell and written by Drake's fellow band member. On June 10, 2008 the soundtrack to iCarly was released, including Leave It All to Me and three other songs, including the next singles, the cover of Amy Diamond's song Stay My Baby, and About You Now, originally by the Sugababes, and another track called "Headphones On" (which is also available as a downloadable song in the Rock Band series[5]).

Cosgrove's version of "About You Now" peaked at number forty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was later featured on the hit compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 30[6].

She released a new song, a cover of Christmas Wrapping, for the soundtrack to Merry Christmas, Drake and Josh.

It has also been revealed that Cosgrove is in the middle of recording her debut solo album, possibly with a collaboration with the band Boys Like Girls. She was helped by famous pop producers the Matrix and Dr. Luke for her debut album.[7]

An EP was released on February 3 with two new tracks Party Girl and FYI. Also singles About You Now and Stay My Baby were rereleased and they also have remixes on them.

FilmographyFilm
Year Film Role Notes
2003 School of Rock Summer Hathaway
2005 Here Comes Peter Cottontail Munch Voice
Yours, Mine and Ours Joni North
2006 Drake & Josh Go Hollywood Megan Parker TV movie
The Wild Stallion Hanna Mills
Keeping Up with the Steins Karen Sussman
2007 Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp Megan Parker TV movie
2008 The Naked Brothers Band: Mystery Girl Herself TV movie
iCarly: iGo to Japan Carly Shay TV movie
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh Megan Parker TV movie
2009 ICarly: iDate A Bad Boy Carly Shay TV movie
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2001 Smallville Lana Lang Episode: "Pilot"
2004 Grounded For Life Jessica Episode: "You Better You Bet"
Drake & Josh Megan Parker Supporting role (2004-2008)
2007 iCarly Carly Shay Main role (2007-present)
Zoey 101 Paige Howard Episode: "Paige at PCA"
Just Jordan Lindsey Chandler Episode: "Piano Stressin"
Unfabulous Cosmina Episode: "The Talent Show"
Guest appearances
Year Title Role Notes
2008 Kids' Choice Awards 2008 Herself Cameo appearances
Teen Choice Awards 2008 Herself
2009 Kids' Choice Awards 2009 Herself Presented award

Discography

EPs
About You Now (2009)[8]

Soundtracks
iCarly (2008)

SinglesYear Songs Chart positions Album
U.S. U.S. Pop
2007 "Leave It All to Me" (feat. Drake Bell) 100[9] 83[10] iCarly soundtrack
2008 "Stay My Baby" — —
"About You Now" 47 [11] —
"Christmas Wrapping" — — Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh soundtrack


how do they kno about something in 2010 that they may not been filming yet??? KADcutie44 (talk) 00:34, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Because people like to tell you what future projects they'll be in. --Enrgy (talk) 00:41, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
there is a new movie she is starring in this Saturday. It is called iDate A Bad Boy. This is a new movie she is starring in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kagemaru16 (talk • contribs) 14:48, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Miranda Cosgrove's films

I think that Miranda Cosgrove is a great actress and singer, and has a lot of confidence. I'm getting sort of off topic for just a minute. Has anyone here ever read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan? OMG! Theyre awesome books! They're making the first book into a movie "The Lightning Thief." I think Miranda Cosgrove would be perfect playing Annabeth Chase in the movie, with Jake T. Austin playing Percy Jackson. GO PERCABETH!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.115.160.235 (talk) 17:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)


She was in the movie "The Blue Elephant". She voiced the character Konsuay in 2008. Tawnyowl423 (talk) 00:07, 15 April 2009 (UTC)(TawnyOwl423)

http://www.miranda-cosgrove.net/miranda/miranda-filmography.php mentions that Miranda Cosgrove starred in 'What's New, Scooby-Doo?' and 'Scooby Doo Merry Scary Holiday (2004)' as Miranda Wright. However, there is some error with the dates, the website says the production ends over a year after the film is released, and this information isn't in the article. Someone else should confirm this before adding to the article. Shameen (talk) 14:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)