Miranda Taylor Cosgrove born May 14 1993 is an American actress singer and songwriter Her career began at the age of 3 with several television commercial appearances Cosgroves film debut came in 2003 when she appeared as Summer Hathaway in School of Rock She appeared in a number of minor television roles over several years before coming to prominence as Megan Parker on the Nickelodeon television series Drake Josh In 2007 she landed the role of Carly Shay the lead character on the Nickelodeon teen sitcom iCarly on which she starred until 2012 As of May 2010 Cosgrove earned 180000 per episode of iCarly making her the secondhighestpaid child star on television and in 2012 was listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest paid child actress Cosgrove also voiced Margo in the animated film Despicable Me 2010 and its 2013 sequel That year Cosgrove was cast in an NBC television pilot titled Girlfriend in a Coma which didnt materialize after Christina Ricci left the production In 2016 she starred on the shortlived NBC sitcom Crowded Description above from the Wikipedia article Miranda Cosgrove licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia