Jennette Michelle Faye McCurdy is an American film and television actress and country singer-songwriter.
She rose to fame as
iCarly's resident
Badass, Samantha Puckett. Jennette has also starred in other TV shows such as
Zoey 101,
Malcolm in the Middle,
Will and Grace,
Strong Medicine,
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,
The Inside,
True Jackson, VP and
Judging Amy, as well as TV movie
Best Player.
She has also parlayed into a country music career and was signed with Capitol Records Nashville, having released 2 albums as of 2012.
It's been confirmed that after
iCarly's fifth & final season ends, Jennette will be starring in a new series on Nickelodeon called
Sam And Cat, teaming up with Dan Schneider again. It is a
Cross Over Spin-Off with Cat Valentine from
Victorious.
Could be considered Nick's equivalent to
Debby Ryan (incidentally, they're best friends in
Real Life).
This actress contains examples of:
- Acting for Two: In iCarly, she plays as Samantha and Melanie Puckett, who are identical twins with opposite traits.
- Alpha Bitch: Pinky Turzo in True Jackson VP. An Alternative Character Interpretation for Sam Puckett is that she combines both the Alpha Bitch and Jerk Jock aspects into a single mean bullying bitch.
- Badass Adorable
- Biting-the-Hand Humor: She spent 4 days attacking Nickelodeon after they showed small part of a new music video of hers when she was expecting it to be the entire clip and had been promoting it as such on her twitter. Has also done the same with MTV. Both networks are owned by the same company Viacom. She's since been rewarded with a new contract for iCarly, a new contract with Nick's music label and her own starring show on Nick, so it didn't turn out badly for her.
- Buxom Is Better
- Cover Version: Homeless Heart by Amanda Stott.
- Cute Bruiser: Sam Puckett
- Deadpan Snarker: Quite a "self-proclaimed nerd" and bubbly all-around in her twitter page, she hilariously counters defamatory tweets against her.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Two of her first acting credits were on MadTV and in the music video for Faith Hill's "The Way You Love Me".
- Genki Girl
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Unlike most of her characters.
- Like Brother and Sister: Has specifically said kissing Nathan Kress feels like this to her and that she dislikes romantic scenes because of it.
- Mean Character, Nice Actor
- Ms. Fanservice
- Nice Shoes: Regularly posts pictures of the shoes she's wearing on Twitter.
- Older Than They Look: Jennette (even Sam) is the eldest of the 4 main teen actors in iCarly, but her petite stature is convincing enough to shrug off a few years of her age.
- One of Us: Jennette is a self-proclaimed geek and avid fan of Star Wars and Back to the Future, to the extent where she went to a fan meet up celebrating the films
, something that her role Sam Puckett would ridicule her for.- Her Twitter profile has listed her location as Dagobah, Hoth, and Hill Valley, and had her celebrating the date Marty first traveled through time.
- Her text alert tone is Bazinga, for goodness sake!
- Rapunzel Hair
- Running Gag: The Kids Choice Awards never gets to spell her name right. Jennette personally calls them on this in her twitter account every year.
- TypeCasting: To the Delinquent roles, with Trisha Kirby and Sam Puckett as the best examples.
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