History Music / MirandaCosgrove

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An American [[TeenIdol teen actress, singer and songwriter]], mainly known as the manipulative and grade-conscious Summer Hathaway in ''Film/SchoolOfRock'' opposite Creator/JackBlack. She later gained more recognition in the Creator/DanSchneider-produced Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} sitcoms ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' as Megan Parker and ''Series/ICarly'' as the lead character Carly Shay. Miranda had starred in a few films like ''Keeping Up with the Steins'', ''The Wild Stallion'' and the 2005 remake of ''Yours, Mine and Ours''. She's also the voice actress of Margo in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe''.

She was one of Nick's flagship teens and works under the pop-rock music genre of Columbia Records.

!!Selected Filmography
* 2001: ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (TV Series) -- Young Lana Lang
* 2003: ''Film/SchoolOfRock'' -- Summer Hathaway
* 2004-2007: ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' (TV Series) -- Megan Parker
* 2005: ''Yours, Mine and Ours'' -- Joni North
* 2006: ''Keeping Up with the Steins'' -- Karen Sussman
* 2007-2012: ''Series/ICarly'' (TV Series) -- Carly Shay
* 2009: ''The Wild Stallion'' (direct to DVD) -- Hannah Mills
* 2010: ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' -- Margo (Voice)
* 2013: ''[[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe Despicable Me 2]]'' -- Margo (Voice)
* Pending: ''Girlfriend In A Coma'' -- Evie
* Pending: ''The Intruders''

!!Discography
* 2009: ''About You Now'' [EP]
* 2010: ''Sparks Fly''
* 2011: ''High Maintenance'' [EP]

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!!This actress contains examples of:

* {{Adorkable}}: Especially regarding to her picture posts about [[PreciousPuppy Pearl or Penelope]] or just [[CatSmile smiling away]].
* AlbumTitleDrop: "'''Sparks fly''', it's like electricity..."
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Her name might sound like common English until you translate her name to its very European origins.
* BeautyMark: She has three tiny moles: one on each cheek and one on her chin, creating a subtle ''triangle''.
* BreakUpSong: ''Brand New You'', ''There Will Be Tears'' and ''Oh Oh'', with all 3 being the "I'm over you" type.
* CatSmile
* CharacterTitle: ''Charlie'', more like a [[OneWomanSong One Boy Song]].
* CaughtInTheRain: The music video of ''Kissin' U''.
* CelebrityCrush: ShiaLabeouf, James Franco, RyanGosling, and JosephGordonLevitt.
* CelebrityVoiceActor: As Margo in WesternAnimation/DespicableMe. The only real difference is in how sarcastic the character is, it's pretty close to how Megan would speak if they'd kept her character going until her late teenage years.
* CoverVersion: ''About You Now'' (Music/{{Sugababes}}), ''Christmas Wrapping'' (The Waitresses), ''Shakespeare'' (Susan Cagle), ''Kiss You Up'' (Shontelle Layne) and ''All Kinds of Wrong'' (Claude Kelly). Miranda also sings a lot of cover songs during live performances.
** ''Disgusting'' was originally written/sung by [[{{Kesha}} Ke$ha]] but the song was scrapped, so a [[LyricSwap toned-down version]] was later written for Miranda's album. Outside Europe, ''[[CoveredUp Stay My Baby]]'' had also been identified as Miranda's over its original Scandinavian artist Amy Diamond.
** ''TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest'' is considered as a Music/SherylCrow cover, despite the original song dating back to Cat Stevens and Music/RodStewart.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: The video of ''Dancing Crazy'' focuses Cosgrove spending all midnight out with friends, dancing in a football field, finding romance, and coming back home just in time for her alarm clock to ring.
-->"Everybody's dancing, dancing crazy and we never stop, we never stop..."
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Is best friends with JennetteMccurdy on-screen and off-screen.
* HotterAndSexier: While her debut single ''Kissin U'' is promoted to tweendom, the song's music video seems to deviate from that demographic.
** Her obscure tracks ''Party Girl'' and ''FYI'' have adult-like lyrics, with the latter stepping on DarkerAndEdgier. And these were released prior to both her well-known albums.
** ''High Maintenance''. After reaching the age of 18, her concert tours for that album is oozing with this trope in terms of her FanService-y outfits and more daring cover songs.
* IntercourseWithYou: ''Sayonara'' is definitely not just a dance song.
** ''What Are You Waiting For'' gives strong TheirFirstTime implications before parting with her lover/unrequited friend for good.
* IronyAsSheIsCast: Summer had a HollywoodToneDeaf singing voice, while Carly lacked skill in drawing and playing the guitar. Miranda is quite proficient in all three talents.
* LoveMartyr: ''Beautiful Mess'' sings this trope; subverted with ''Brand New You''.
* LyricalDissonance: The seemingly fluffy/peppy titles ''Hey You'' and ''What Are You Waiting For'' have extremely depressing themes.
** The break-up songs mentioned above involve bad break-ups and heartaches but set into lively upbeat music, and the songs are about being perfectly fine with the separation and moving on. In ''Brand New You,'' she's searching for someone new to prove that she won't miss him. ''Oh Oh'' has her going out with her friends and having a good time instead of being miserable, and ''There Will Be Tears'' has her reflecting on the break-up and saying "there will be tears, but they're not gonna be mine!"
* LyricSwap: Being under Nickelodeon's wing, it's not a surprise with regards to her song lyrics.
** Ke$ha's ''Disgusting'' originally has "I should kill you" which is changed into "I should hate you" in Miranda's version.
** Miranda even covered Cee-Lo Green's ''Fuck You'' in her recent tour, replacing the titular lyrics into the more-used "Forget you".
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Megan is a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] and [[EnfantTerrible evil little girl]] who tortures her brothers just for kicks. Miranda, on the other hand, is a very sweet and charming young actress.
* {{Meganekko}}: Her roles as a [[HotLibrarian librarian]] in JustJordan, and [[HollywoodNerd geek]] in ''Keeping Up with the Steins''. [[http://popstaronline.com/dyn/images/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/0000/700/764/764.jpg Miranda]] [[http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la5c041dIx1qavbymo1_500.jpg herself]] can play the trope nicely.
* MistakenForCheating: The plot for her music video of ''About You Now'', which gets resolved at the end.
* MistakenNationality: [[WordOfGod Miranda]] [[https://twitter.com/MirandaCosgrove/status/4561510254 once posted on Twitter in response to a fan question that people often assume she is of various nationalities; she is of English, Irish, and French descent]]. The most common ones to come up include being Filipino, or some kind of East Asian or Latin American.
* MoneySong: Averted with ''Million Dollars''.
* MotorMouth: DanSchneider notes Miranda's fluency with rapid-fire delivery of long dialogues. Miranda herself is quite a fast talker in her interviews, and some of her songs have long rap-like lyrics (i.e. ''Disgusting'' and ''Face of Love'') that she barely stops to catch in a breath.
* MsFanservice: Played with in iCarly; more prominent during her concert tours.
** Miranda's apparel at the Kids' Choice Awards: [[http://celebz4eva.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/miranda-cosgrove-australian-nickelodeon-kids-choice-awards-2009-2.png 2009]], [[http://celebsecrets4u.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/miranda-cosgrove-kids-choice-awards-2010-43.jpg?w=94 2010]], [[http://www-hollywoodlife-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/040211_kca_best_dressed_111449700_110402203814.jpg 2011]], and [[http://upix.me/files/qtThnF/mirandecosgrove_kc3-04012012044636000000.jpg 2012]].
** LadyInRed: ''iCarly Awards''; Miranda also wore a SexySantaDress in Series/BigTimeRush.
** SexyBacklessOutfit: She has a penchant for such clothes especially in recent awards events like [[http://miranda-cosgrove.us/gallery/albums/Public%20Appearances/2012/16th%20annual%20Art%20Directors%20Guild%20Awards_/011.jpg Director's Guild]] and [[http://miranda-cosgrove.us/gallery/albums/Public%20Appearances/2012/Kids%20Choice%20Awards/064.jpg the 2012 KCA]].
** ShesGotLegs: Miranda exemplifies this trope, as she's mentioned in interviews that she likes skirts and dresses; she also likes shorts, and also wears footwear geared to showcase her legs.
* OneOfUs
* OlderThanTheyLook: She's in her late teens but could easily pass as an 8th or 9th grader.
* PlayingAgainstType: Her guest role in TheGoodWife and a cameo in the music video ''Our Deal'' as a beaten up gangster.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Carly's early childhood best friend is played by actress Haley Ramm, one of Miranda's real-life best friends.
* RidiculousProcrastinator: ''Headphones On''
* RomanceOnTheSet: Played straight and averted:
** Averted for iCarly co-star NathanKress, even if she said she compares other guys to him.
** Not averted for Nat Wolff of TheNakedBrothersBand as they dated for two to three years when they were in their early teens.
** James Maslow of Series/BigTimeRush and Miranda have a lot of chemistry in the two episodes they have made involving each other (one on iCarly, one on Big Time Rush).
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: ''High Maintenance''
* SelfBackingVocalist
* ShesAllGrownUp: Her ''[[http://www.kurvmag.com.au/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=637 Kurv]]'' and ''[[http://oceanup.com/2012/04/29/miranda-cosgrove-block-magazine-shoot/ Block]]'' magazine photoshoots.
** Her recent short film/photoshoot in [[http://spiritandfleshmag.com/films/miranda-cosgrove/ Spirit and Flesh]] really shows that Summer/Megan is now a grown-up.
* SillyLoveSongs: A huge percentage of her discography, apart from being a main theme of ''Sparks Fly''.
* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Her debut album ''Sparks Fly'' is not to be confused with Music/TaylorSwift's single; its title is taken from the first two words of Miranda's single ''Kissin' U''. To further the confusion, both girls [[NamesTheSame even share the name Taylor]] (Miranda's middle name) while both the album and the single contain IntercourseWithYou.
* TakeThat: TheGoodWife episode ''Bad Girls'' mentioned the "{{Disney}}-ghetto" a couple of times, with regards to the usual trend of image-changing from a lot of the network's teen stars. It is also worth noting that the episode title is a possible homage to a [[Film/MeanGirls film]] starred by a certain [[LindsayLohan Disney alumna]] loosely based for Miranda's character Sloan.

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An American [[TeenIdol teen actress, singer and songwriter]], mainly known as the manipulative and grade-conscious Summer Hathaway in ''Film/SchoolOfRock'' opposite Creator/JackBlack. She later gained more recognition in the Creator/DanSchneider-produced Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} sitcoms ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' as Megan Parker and ''Series/ICarly'' as the lead character Carly Shay. Miranda also starred in a few films like ''Keeping Up with the Steins'', ''The Wild Stallion'' and the 2005 remake of ''Yours, Mine and Ours'', as well as voicing the role of Margo in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe''.

She is one of Nick's flagship teens and works under the pop-rock music genre of Columbia Records.

** Her photoshoots for ''Kurv'' and ''Block'' magazines exemplify her gradual rise to full ShesAllGrownUp status.

* 2013: ''Girlfriend In A Coma'' -- Evie

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Megan is a manipulative and evil little girl who tortures her brothers just for kicks. Miranda, on the other hand, is a very charming young actress.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: As Margo in DespicableMe. The only real difference is in how sarcastic the character is, it's pretty close to how Megan would speak if they'd kept her character going until her late teenage years.

* MistakenNationality: [[WordOfGod Miranda]] once posted on Twitter in response to a fan question, that people often assume she is of various nationalities (she is of English and French descent). The most common ones to come up include being Filipino, or some kind of East Asian or Latin American.

An American [[TeenIdol teen actress, singer and songwriter]], mainly known as the manipulative and grade-conscious Summer Hathaway in ''SchoolOfRock'' opposite JackBlack. She later gained more recognition in the DanSchneider-produced {{Nickelodeon}} sitcoms ''DrakeAndJosh'' as Megan Parker and ''ICarly'' as the lead character Carly Shay. Miranda also starred in a few films like ''Keeping Up with the Steins'', ''The Wild Stallion'' and the 2005 remake of ''Yours, Mine and Ours'', as well as voicing the role of Margo in ''DespicableMe''.

* RavenHairIvorySkin

* 2013: A pilot named ''Girlfriend In A Coma'' alongside Christina Ricci.

* 2001: ''{{Smallville}}'' (TV Series) -- Young Lana Lang
* 2003: ''SchoolOfRock'' -- Summer Hathaway
* 2004-2007: ''DrakeAndJosh'' (TV Series) -- Megan Parker

* 2007-2012: ''ICarly'' (TV Series) -- Carly Shay

* 2010: ''DespicableMe'' -- Margo (Voice)

* CelebrityVoiceActor: In her handful of voice acting roles she essentially is herself. The only real difference is in how sarcastic the character is.

* {{Pettanko}}: Carly's ACupAngst is comically lampshaded a few times.

An American [[TeenIdol teen actress, singer and songwriter]], mainly known as the manipulative and grade-conscious Summer Hathaway in ''SchoolOfRock'' opposite JackBlack. She later gained more recognition in the DanSchneider-produced {{Nickelodeon}} sitcoms ''DrakeAndJosh'' as Megan Parker and ''ICarly'' as the lead character Carly Shay. Miranda also starred in a few films like ''Keeping Up with the Steins'', ''The Wild Stallion'' and the 2005 remake of ''Yours, Mine and Ours''. She also lends her voice as Margo in ''DespicableMe''.

Currently one of Nick's flagship teens and has entered the pop-rock music genre under Columbia Records.

* 2007-present: ''ICarly'' (TV Series) -- Carly Shay

** Her obscure tracks ''Party Girl'' and ''FYI'' have adult-like lyrics, with the latter stepping on DarkerAndEdgier. And these were released prior to both her well-known albums.

* LoveMartyr: ''Beautiful Mess'' sings this trope, while ''Brand New You'' averts this.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Her debut album ''Sparks Fly'' is not to be confused with Music/TaylorSwift's single; its title is taken from the first two words of Miranda's single ''Kissin' U''. [[hottip:*: To further the confusion, both girls [[NamesTheSame even share the name Taylor]] (Miranda's middle name) while both the album and the single contain IntercourseWithYou.]]