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Miranda Taylor Cosgrove (born May 14, 1993 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. Her first major role was 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 the ''Franchise/DespicableMe'' films.

She was one of Nick's flagship {{Teen Idol}}s in the late '00s and early '10s, and works under the pop-rock music genre of Columbia Records.
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!!Filmography:
* 2001: ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (TV Series) -- Young ComicBook/LanaLang
* 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
** 2021-: ''Series/ICarly2021'' (TV Series) -- Carly Shay
* 2009: ''The Wild Stallion'' (direct to DVD) -- Hannah Mills
* 2010-2017: ''Franchise/DespicableMe'' -- Margo (voice)
** 2010: ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1''
** 2010: ''Home Makeover'' (''Despicable Me'' Mini Movie)
** 2012: ''Ride/DespicableMeMinionMayhem'' (Simulator Ride)
** 2013: ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2''
** 2013: ''Training Wheels'' (''Despicable Me 2'' Mini Movie)
** 2017: ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3''
** 2017: ''The Secret Life of Kyle''
** 2024: ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe4''
* 2015: ''Film/{{The Intruders|2015}}'' (direct to DVD) -- Rose Halshford
* 2015: ''A Mouse Tail'' -- Samantha (Voice)
* 2016: ''Crowded'' (TV series) -- Shea Moore
* 2021: ''Film/NorthHollywood'' -- Rachel

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

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!!This actress contains examples of:

* AlbumTitleDrop: "'''Sparks fly''', it's like electricity..."
* AlmostKiss: Mentioned in "Shakespeare":
-->''Now we're walking up my street''\\
''And you slowly turn to me''\\
''You're three inches from my lips''\\
''But before we do this...''
* BreakUpSong: "Brand New You", "There Will Be Tears", and "Oh Oh", with all 3 being the "I'm over you" type.
* CharacterTitle: "Charlie", more like a [[OneWomanSong One Boy Song]].
* CaughtInTheRain: The music video of "Kissin' U".
* CelebrityCrush:
** Creator/ShiaLabeouf, James Franco, Creator/RyanGosling, and Creator/JosephGordonLevitt.
** She implies Creator/NathanKress in some of her interviews. The biggest hint however was [[http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2011/11/16/miranda-cosgrove-compares-all-guys-to-nathan-kress/ she compares her dates to Nathan.]]
* 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 Music/{{Kesha}} 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..."
* EndearinglyDorky: Especially regarding her picture posts about [[PreciousPuppy Pearl or Penelope]] or just smiling away.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Is best friends with Creator/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.
* InkSuitActor: Imagine the page image with glasses and a ponytail, and the resemblance to [[Franchise/DespicableMe Margo]] is clear.
* 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.
* 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 are set to lively, upbeat music; lyrically, 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".
* 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: Creator/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.
* OlderThanTheyLook: When she was in her late teens, she could easily pass as an 8th or 9th grader.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Carly's early childhood best friend is played by actress Haley Ramm, one of Miranda's real-life best friends.
* ReclusiveArtist: She has an Instagram and a Twitter, both of which aren't updated on any consistent basis, and she generally stays out of the public spotlight, in stark contrast to her contemporary Victoria Justice.
* RidiculousProcrastinator: ''Headphones On''
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: ''High Maintenance''
%%* SelfBackingVocalist
* SheIsAllGrownUp: 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''.
* TakeThat: ''Series/TheGoodWife'' episode "Bad Girls" mentioned the "Creator/{{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 [[Creator/LindsayLohan Disney alumna]] loosely based for Miranda's character Sloan.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the "About You Now" video, we never see what happens to Miranda's three girl friends after she goes to the bench to apologize to her boyfriend.

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