Jennette McCurdy

Jennette McCurdy is an American writer and former actress, born in 1992 in Long Beach, California. She became widely known as Sam Puckett in the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly, which ran from 2007 to 2012 and brought her four Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, and she repeated the role in the spin-off Sam and Cat. Earlier television credits include Malcolm in the Middle, Zoey 101 and Victorious, and she made and starred in the webseries What is Next for Sarah and the science fiction series Between. She also released country-leaning music, including the 2010 EP Not That Far Away. After leaving acting in 2018 to write and direct, she published the memoir I am Glad My Mom Died in 2022, which topped bestseller lists, and began adapting it for television in 2025. In the Film and Media Atlas she stands as a child television star who moved to the written word.