Miranda Taylor Cosgrove is a 27-year-old American singer and actress. She is a talented actress and most copious singer known for her pop and electro-pop genres of music. Born on May 14, 1993, she hails from Los Angeles, California, and has established an astounding career.
A Kids’ Choice Award winner and a winner of Young Artist Awards twice, she is ruling the music industry with her marvelous performances around the U.S. She became the highest-paid actress for the popular American series iCarly on Nickelodeon. Let’s dig more about the life, career, and achievements of this amazing actress.
Personal Profile
Celebrity Name – Miranda Cosgrove
Full Name – Miranda Taylor Cosgrove
Gender – Female
Birthday – May 14, 1993
Place of Origin – Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Age – 27
Height – 1.68m
Weight – 58 kg
Nationality – American
Status – Single
Spouse – No
Children -No
Profession – Actress and singer
Miranda’s Total Net Worth- $12 million
Early Life
Miranda Cosgrove was born on May 14, 1993, in Los Angeles, California. Her father Tom was the owner of a dry cleaning business and mother Chris was a homemaker. The actress claims herself to be a descendent of English, Irish and French.
Right from childhood, she began getting offers for modeling and she was seen doing modeling for television commercials like Mello Yello and Mc Donald. Miranda once stated that she never thought to start her career as an actress but after having worked in television commercials she developed a liking for this profession.
Professional Life
A native of Los Angeles, Miranda got the start of her career at an early age of three when she was approached by a talent agent for playing the role of a model for his television commercial. Slowly and slowly, Miranda started loving this profession and landed in a famous American superhero series Smallville for playing the voice of Lana Lang. The very talented actress made it to her first film debut School of Rock, in 2003 which was a box office hit. In the meantime, Miranda’s forage for singing led her to get singing lessons for five years.
Soon in 2004, she landed up a lead role in a television series Drake and Josh, a Nickelodeon series. She played the role of Megan Parke as a mischievous sister of the lead character and this gave her career a great fan following as everyone liked her character. After this, Miranda’s career got a breakthrough as many big offers from the industry were just waiting for her approval. In 2007, Miranda played the lead role in Carly Shay.
The title of the Nickelodeon teen situation comedy was “iCarly”. Cosgrove earned a compensation of $180,000 for this in 2010, the sources said. By 2012, she became the second-highest-paid artist after this amount of compensation and got recognized at number one position in Guinness World Records Book.
After working for a variety of movies and television series, Miranda’s journey towards her career became even more interesting when she was signed for the Wild Stallion film, worked for many Nickelodeon series. In 2008, she also launched her first debut song when she recorded the iCarly theme song Leave it All to me, we must tell you that iCarly was Miranda’s sitcom where viewers may send their videos.
In 2009, this multi-talented actress was all set to launch her first solo recording for her album About You with five songs along with many other recordings for the cover songs on the go. Miranda also worked as a vocal artist and in 2010, she voiced Margo for Despicable which was an animated movie. In addition to this, she also voiced in Despicable2 sequel. Miranda kept rocking and rolling in the industry by signing a variety of movies which include her works as a voice artist in the movie A mouse Tale (2014) which was an animated movie, cast for a horror film, The Intruders in 2015 followed by a role in the comedy pilot, Crowded and further cast for a lead role in the movie 3022 in the year 2019. Recently, in 2020 she was chosen as a host of the CBS series Mission Unstoppable.
Personal Life
A multi-skilled actress, with abundant talents of singing and acting, was homeschooled after sixth grade and attended New York University and the University of South California. To be proximate to her family she settled for studying at the University of South California and completed her major degree in the film but later on, she changed it to study psychology.
Right from the beginning, she had always desired to be a veterinarian but she chose to do acting when she developed a liking for this profession. She is an avid horse rider and loves to play guitar in her free time. It is but obvious that Miranda is blessed with an ardent spirit who has built a self-earned image as she hailed from a middle-class family. She is a well-paid actress and carries a bag of awards and achievements.
Awards and Achievements
Miranda has displayed her skills worldwide with her hard work and passion for her career. In a very short time, she has ardently attained that level of success which is a dream of millions. Here we present to you some of the awards and honors won by her.
Young Artist Awards
- Miranda won this award as Leading Young Actress for Best Performance in a comedy TV series in the year 2009.
- Again in 2012, Miranda won this Award for Best Performance in a Cross-Over.
Kids’ Choice Awards
In 2014, she was awarded this award for work as a voice artist under the category of Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie for the movie Despicable Me 2.
Teen Choice Awards
In 2012, she got this award for Herself under the category of the Acuvue Inspire Award.
Miranda Cosgrove Total Net Worth
Miranda’s Total Net worth amounts to $12 million. Coming from a middle-class background, she has proved her mettle by establishing a self-earned iconic image and has inspired the youth around the world. Having won Guinness World Book Record, she became the highest-paid actress for the popular American series iCarly on Nickelodeon. She is ruling the heart of millions by her marvelous performances and has become a shining star of U.S.