Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14, 1993 is an American film and television actress and pop recording artist. Cosgrove played the roles of Megan Parker in Drake & Josh and title character in iCarly. Her career started at the age of three, participating in television commercials. Cosgrove's film debut was in 2003, as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock. After years of small television appearances, Cosgrove was cast into the hit show Drake & Josh and later in iCarly. Cosgrove earns 180,000 per episode of iCarly, making her the second highest paid child star on television
Following the success of iCarly, a soundtrack album was released in June 2008, in which she performed four songs. Cosgrove's debut album Sparks Fly was released on April 27, 2010.
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 2001–2006: Rise to fame
2.2 2007–present: iCarly and music career
3 Filmography
4 Discography
4.1 Albums
4.2 Extended plays
5 Tours
6 Awards and nominations
7 References
8 External links
Cosgrove was born in Los Angeles, California, to Tom, who owns a dry cleaning business, and Chris, a stay-at-home mother At the age of three, she was discovered by a talent agent while singing and dancing at the Los Angeles restaurant Taste of Cosgrove stated that when the agent walked up to her and her mom for modeling, she had "never really thought of being an and "was lucky After choosing to take the offer, she appeared in television commercials for McDonald and Mello Yello and also modeledAt the age of seven, Cosgrove decided that doing it" and auditioned for theater and television roles.
Cosgrove's first television appearance was in 2001 as a 5-year old Lana Lang in the pilot of Smallville. Cosgrove then made her film debut with the 2003 film School of Rock. In the movie, she played Summer Hathaway, a young girl with great ambition and discipline who finds herself adjusting to the free-spirited nature of the new teacher by becoming band manager of classroom's rock band. School of Rock was both a box office hit, grossing over $131,282,949 worldwide and critical success, receiving a 91 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.Cosgrove's acting on the film was praised with David Ansen of Newsweek describing it as "spot onShe said of the experience of working with Jack Black: "The first week it was like, 'Oh, my God, that's Jack Black,' but two weeks later it was fine. He's really funny. Sometimes the director would say, 'Jack you can't make them laugh so much. She cited the scene as trying to sing wrong as very difficult. Cosgrove stated that "I got a 45-minute lesson from Jim O'Rourke of Sonic Youth on how to sing badly. I've been taking singing lessons for about five years, so getting to sing badly was new. The director kept saying, 'Try to sing even worse, Miranda,' so it was weird. She is grateful she was in School of Rock, as it exposed her to classic rock songs she was unfamiliar with. "After the movie," said Cosgrove, "I discovered Led Zeppelin and I've taken up the electric guitar
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