1. Colleen Ballinger is best known for her creation and portrayal of the Internet character Miranda Sings, posting videos of the character on YouTube, performing her one-woman comedy act on tour in theatres worldwide, and creating and starring in a Netflix original series titled Haters Back Off.
Colleen Ballinger won a Teen Choice Award for "Web Star: Comedy" and a Streamy Award as Best Actress.
Colleen Ballinger has appeared as an actress and singer in theatre, television, recordings and web series.
Colleen Ballinger appeared in the web series Escape the Night, played Dawn in the Broadway musical Waitress, and has appeared three times on The Tonight Show, among other talk shows.
Colleen Ballinger has published two best-selling books, written in Miranda's voice, Selp-Helf and My Diarrhe.
Colleen Ballinger was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California, the daughter of Tim Colleen Ballinger, a sales manager, and his wife Gwen, a homemaker.
Colleen Ballinger was homeschooled during middle school, attended San Marcos High School and graduated in 2008 from Azusa Pacific University, where she majored in vocal performance.
Colleen Ballinger has two older brothers, Christopher and Trent, and a younger sister, Rachel.
From 2007 to 2009, Colleen Ballinger performed at Disneyland in California; gave private voice, movement coaching and piano lessons to children; and performed at parties and cabaret spaces.
Colleen Ballinger appeared on the 2010 album More With Every Line, by songwriter Tim Prottey-Jones, and the 2011 album Self Taught, Still Learning by Chris Passey.
In 2012, Colleen Ballinger was featured as nurse Royal in the web series Dr Fubalous.
Colleen Ballinger gave a talk at the Boston Children's Theatre about how to use social media to promote yourself as a performer.
Colleen Ballinger plays Meg on the Volume 12 DVD of Family Guy in the live-action version of the show's introduction.
Later that year, both as herself and as Miranda Sings, Colleen Ballinger starred in a six-episode beauty series parody called How to Makeup on the I Love Makeup YouTube channel operated by Collective Digital Studio.
Colleen Ballinger is featured on the track "Clouds" in Flula Borg's 2015 EP, I Want to Touch You.
Colleen Ballinger appeared in a series of 2016 DiGiorno pizza commercials.
Colleen Ballinger appeared as The Duchess in season 4 of Escape the Night.
Colleen Ballinger made her Broadway debut in the musical Waitress, as Dawn, where she appeared from August to September 2019.
On Halloween 2020, Colleen Ballinger played Janet in a livestream reading of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring original cast members Tim Curry, Nell Campbell and Barry Bostwick.
In 2021, Colleen Ballinger voiced the role of Crandy on the Netflix animated series Centaurworld.
In 2009, Colleen Ballinger began to make a living by performing her live one-woman comedy act in character as Miranda Sings.
Colleen Ballinger continued to tour thereafter and stated that, of all her professional activities, she gets the most satisfaction in her career from her live performances.
Colleen Ballinger was able to turn the popularity of her videos into income from a percentage of YouTube advertising fees or occasionally fixed sponsorship fees.
Since January 2008, Colleen Ballinger has posted hundreds of videos as her comically talentless and quirky character, Miranda Sings, primarily on the YouTube channel Miranda Sings.
Colleen Ballinger uses spoonerisms and malapropisms; is irritable, ludicrously self-absorbed and self-righteous, socially awkward; and has a defiant, arrogant attitude.
Colleen Ballinger wears bright red lipstick drawn beyond the borders of her lips, dresses in mismatched out-of-style clothing, and often dances stiffly to the music she is performing.
From 2010 to 2012, Colleen Ballinger posted Miranda video blogs to a second Miranda YouTube channel, Mirandavlogz.
Colleen Ballinger based the character partly on young women that she knew in college.
Miranda's videos drew predictably sharp criticism on YouTube, and as they became popular, Colleen Ballinger modified the character in response to the negative comments.
Colleen Ballinger mentioned the story arc on a July 2018 appearance on Live with Kelly and Ryan.
When Colleen Ballinger gave birth, she tweeted about it from Miranda's account as well as her own.
Colleen Ballinger read or sang hate mail that she has received, interacted with audience volunteers, used projected presentations containing terrible spelling, and included a "magic trick" where she sang while appearing to be stabbed through the neck by a sword; the joke is that she sings better when the sword is inserted through her neck.
Colleen Ballinger continued to tour from September 2017 to early 2018 with shows in Europe, Australasia and the US.
In 2009, Colleen Ballinger released a Christmas EP titled Christmas With Miranda Sings.
Colleen Ballinger has appeared or hosted as Miranda at award shows and given benefit concerts and workshops.
Colleen Ballinger appeared in a 2014 back-to-school video for Old Navy.
Colleen Ballinger guest-starred as Miranda Sings in the season 5 episode, "Happy Thanksgiving Miranda", of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld, in November 2014.
Colleen Ballinger's experience with YouTube star Miranda Sings, which carried its way onto the Tonight Show, was a particular highlight.
In December 2014, Colleen Ballinger appeared as Miranda on The Tonight Show playing Pictionary with Jimmy Fallon, Martin Short and Jerry Seinfeld.
Colleen Ballinger released a second book, My Diarrhe, in 2018, in the form of a leaked diary.
Colleen Ballinger appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in July 2018 to promote the book.
Colleen Ballinger appeared as a guest star, as Miranda, speed dating unsuspecting men on the 2016 YouTube Premium series Prank Academy.
Colleen Ballinger conceived, co-wrote, co-produced and starred as Miranda in the Netflix series, Haters Back Off.
Colleen Ballinger was featured as Miranda in a cover article in Variety about the show in June 2016.
Colleen Ballinger moved to New York City in 2010 to pursue performing opportunities but returned to the West Coast of the United States in 2012 to maximize her YouTube audience by collaborating with more YouTubers, many of whom were based in Los Angeles.
Colleen Ballinger met actor Erik Stocklin in 2016 when she cast him to play Miranda's love interest, Patrick, in Haters Back Off.
The Times of London commented that although Colleen Ballinger's videos have gained her character notice, it "is not online but on stage that Miranda truly comes to ghastly life".
In each of 2014,2015,2016,2017 and 2018, Colleen Ballinger was nominated for one or more Teen Choice Awards, winning the award for "Web Star: Comedy" in 2015; she was nominated for three 2015 Streamy Awards, winning for best actress, and was nominated for more Streamys in 2016 and 2018; she was nominated for People's Choice Awards in 2016,2017 and 2019; and Shorty Awards in 2016,2017 and 2019.
Colleen Ballinger was ranked No 5 on Forbes magazine's 2017 list of top entertainment influencers.
Colleen Ballinger has been ranked No 1 several times in the weekly Top Comedians Social Media Rankings by The Hollywood Reporter.
Colleen Ballinger responded that McIntyre had asked for the lingerie after it was offered in one of her livestreams as one of several joke gifts for fans; she said it had been poor judgment to send the underwear to him.
Colleen Ballinger noted that she often uses comedy ideas suggested by fans but admitted that it had been a mistake to allow the young fan to post directly to her Twitter account for a day without carefully vetting the content that he posted.
Colleen Ballinger addressed criticism of some of her older videos satirizing Latina and overweight women, agreeing that they were insensitive and apologizing for having posted them.
Colleen Ballinger posted a video in response while singing and playing the ukulele.
McIntyre then asserted that Colleen Ballinger sent him the same images when he was a minor.
Paytas soon released a video condemning Colleen Ballinger and ending their association.