miranda cosgrove biography

Miranda Cosgrove

 

 

Miranda in 2012.

General Information

Born May 14, 1993 (19 years)

From Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation Actress, singer, songwriter

Its musical

Genre (s) Pop rock, teen pop

Instrument (s) Vocals, guitar

Years active 1996 - present (Model)

2001 - present (Actress)

2007 - present (Singer)

Label (s) Columbia Records, Epic Records

Related Artists Keke Palmer, Victoria Justice, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress, Josh Peck, Drake Bell, Big Time Rush, Selena Gomez, Ke $ ha, Rivers Cuomo, Avril Lavigne

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Website www.mirandacosgroveofficial.com

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Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (b. Los Angeles, CA, USA, May 14, 1993) is an American actress and singer, best known for playing Megan Parker and Carly Shay in Nickelodeon series Drake & Josh and iCarly. His career began at 3 years of age, participating in television commercials. His film debut was in the 2003 film, School of Rock as Summer Hathaway, receiving positive reviews.

Cosgrove earns $ 180,000 per episode of iCarly, the second highest paid actress in juvenile televisión.2 Following these successes allowed him to enter the world of music by recording the soundtrack of the series, iCarly launched in June 2008. Their debut album Sparks Fly was released on April 27, 2010, debuting at # 8 on the Billboard 200. Miranda worked on the album with Espionage, Dr. Luke and The Matrix.

In late 2010 released "Dancing Crazy" first single from her third and new EP, High Maintenance which was released on March 15, 2011, this is the star of his first tour Dancing Crazy Tour across the U.S. .

Contents [hide]

1 Childhood and education

2 Career acting

3 Career musical

4 Filmography

5 Albums

6 Awards and nominations

7 References

8 External links

Childhood and education

 

Miranda was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Tom Cosgrove has a cleaning business, and Chris a housewife. At three years of age, in 1996, was discovered by a talent scout while singing and dancing in a restaurant called "Taste of LA" ("Taste of LA" in Spanish).

Miranda said when the officer approached her and told her mother that she had a special gift in his voice, a unique talent and that she was going to succeed in music, "I had never really thought about being an actress, and that, I was lucky. " After choosing to accept the offer, she appeared in television commercials for McDonald's and Mello Yello, and also modeled. At the age of seven years, had decided that "[she] loved doing it" and auditioned for theater and television roles. Miranda wants to attend NYU, but his father wants him to stay close to home and attend college at USC, his alma mater.

Acting career

 

 

 

Cosgrove iCarly while filming in February 2009

His first television appearance was in 2001 as a 5 year old Lana Lang in the pilot episode of Smallville. Cosgrove continued her film debut in the 2003 film, School of Rock. In the movie, she played Summer Hathaway, a young girl with great ambition and discipline who finds herself to fit the free-spirited nature and become master of the band manager of classroom's rock band. It was both the School of Rock's success at the box office grossing over $ 131,282,949 worldwide. And the critical acclaim, receiving a 91 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. Cosgrove's performance in the film was praised by David Ansen of Newsweekque described it as a "spot on". She talked about the experience of working with Jack Black: "The first week was like, 'Oh, my God, that's Jack Black,' but two weeks later it was fine.'s Really fun. Sometimes the director would say: 'Jack laugh can not do both.' " She cited the scene as trying to sing wrong as very difficult. Cosgrove said he "received a 45-minute lesson from Jim O'Rourke of Sonic Youth on how to sing badly.'ve Been taking singing lessons for about five years, so getting to sing badly was new. Director said:" Try to sing even worse, Miranda! "so it was weird." She is grateful to have been in School of Rock, as it exposed her to classic rock songs which was desfamiliarizada. "After the movie," said Cosgrove, "I discovered Led Zeppelin and I've taken the electric guitar."

While filming School of Rock in New York, Miranda was informed that the pilot episode of Drake & Josh had been collected. In the series, she portrayed the mischievous sister Megan Parker character. The series debuted on January 11, 2004 and drew positive responses in ratings. Cosgrove said this about the show: "It's like a big family. We know so well, nothing is more embarrassing .... It's very comfortable, and it's really fun." While in the series Drake & Josh, she was able to develop a partnership with Dan Schneider, known for producing various Nickelodeon programs (Zoey 101, The Amanda Show, Kenan & Kel, All That, etc..) And root to form this partnership with Dan Schneider, the later would create his own show iCarly.

Series production began in early 2007, although Schneider created the pilot program before, had always given Miranda as the protagonist. Dan Schneider iCarly thought around the interest young people have in Internet. A unique part of this show is the fact that viewers may submit their own videos and also be included in the show. Cosgrove said the aspect of audience participation: "When I first heard about the idea, I thought it was so good. If I go home and watch TV, I would post a video." Series premiered on September 8, 2007 on Nickelodeon in the United States. The series is a success. In the summer of 2008, the series was the third highest score in the 9-14 demographic areas. The iCarly Saves TV episode extended, became the most watched entertainment program on cable television in June 2008, the series continued to create movies and special iCarly iGo to Japan that year, in 2009, iDate A Bad Boy, iFight Shelby Marx, iQuit iCarly and by 2010, iSaved Your Life, iPsycho, Igot a Hot Room and ISAM's Mom.

He signed with Neutrogena on February 12, 2010, as an ambassador for the skin care of the well-known cosmetics company. On 17 March, it was reported that Miranda had signed a contract, reportedly made 26 episodes of the fourth season of iCarly. Cosgrove lent his voice to the animated film from Universal Studios in 3-D, Despicable Me released on July 9, 2010 and for a sequel called "Desplicable Me 2" which is to premiere auncio late 2012 or early 2013 .

Musical career

 

Miranda's debut as a singer began in 2007 with the entry of iCarly theme "Leave It All To Me". The song features her former castmate Drake Bell and is written by Michael Corcoran, one of the band members of Bell. It was released as a single in December 2007 through digital download and eventually reached number one to one hundred on the Billboard Hot 100. Due to the success in June 2008, Columbia Records decided to release the soundtrack of the series iCarly, which included four songs performed by Cosgrove ("Leave It All To Me", "Stay My Baby", "About You Now" and "Headphones On "). The reception in the criticism of his songs was positive. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said "Cosgrove has proven herself as a brave singer pleading" and tunes from "good pace" interpreted [made] the most of their young talent. "However, Erlewine noted that the" [ approach was not] in "because of other artists, she but rather blend into the mix." The following promotional single Stay My Baby could not reach the charts, but About You Now reached number 47 on the Hot 100 in January 2009, becoming one of their most successful singles to date. In December 2008, a cover of the Christmas song Christmas Wrapping was launched to promote the episode-long special Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh. Following all the success of the soundtrack to iCarly, Miranda became one of MTV's Female Pop Rookies of 2009. To promote the 2009 animated film, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Columbia Records released a single titled Raining Sunshine along with a music video in August 2009.

On February 3, 2009, Cosgrove released her first solo recording, their debut EP About You Now, exclusively on the iTunes Store. The EP included his song, a remix of it, and a remix of "Stay My Baby" as well as two new songs "FYI" and "Party Girl".

 

 

Miranda on the Dancing Crazy Tour in Indianapolis.

Since July 2008, plans for a debut album have been active. In an interview with MTV News, Miranda talked about the next album. Cosgrove reported that "co-written and it was getting very on the album, as oppose to the iCarly soundtrack in which" just picked songs that meant a lot to her and that [she] really liked him. "Also described the album as "still pop rock fun" in comparison to his earlier work on the iCarly soundtrack, though "a little more mature." Themes for the album are "love songs and just fun songs about dating friends. "Launching About You Now, Cosgrove was developing the concept of the album. She described working with producers and songwriters The Matrix and Dr. Luke as" definitely different ". Cosgrove also worked with songwriters Leah Haywood and Daniel James, and said that "most of the songs are fun, pop, rock-girl power." He noted that "there is a ballad that is a bit sad and is called" What Are You Waiting For "is a girl who likes a boy but does not feel the same. "He said it is something he has experienced in his own life. definitely men I have friends that I love but I have a friend, and do not want to ruin the friendship". The debut album Sparks Fly was released on April 27, 2010, debuting at # 8 on the Billboard 200. Miranda worked on the album with Espionage, Dr. Luke and The Matrix, the first single, Kissin 'U, debuted on radio with Ryan Seacrest on March 12, 2010, and launched iTunes on March 23, 2010. The promotion of the album was in presentations of programs like Today Show and other programs interpreting U.S. magazine, "Kissin 'U", "BAM" and "About You Now".

In late 2010 Miranda announced on his official website, his first official tour, Dancing Crazy Tour of the January 24, 2011 to February 20 of that year, throughout the United States in 20 presentations. The tour promotes Miranda and is called the song Dancing Crazy first single from his new EP, High Maintenance which was released on March 15, 2011. This makes a duet with the artist of Weezer, Rivers Cuomo and work with producers Max Martin, Shellback and singer Avril Lavigne.