Colleen Ballinger is a very likable American actress and a comedian who is also known as a great Youtuber and a singer. She is most recognized for her character role as Miranda Sings which eventually became a Netflix TV show.
Colleen Ballinge Early years
Colleen was born as Colleen Mae Ballinger on November 21, 1986, in Santa Barbara, California in the United States. She was raised in a loving family which is made of her father Tim Ballinger, her mother Gwen and three siblings with whom she has spent a very pleasant childhood.
Her father works as a sales manager and her mother is a housewife who had spent all of her time carrying for the family and making their lives easier.
Colleen has a great relationship with her parents and all of her siblings: older brothers Trent and Christopher and her younger sister Rachel whom she adores.
Rachel and Christopher also started working on Youtube and today they both have over a million subscribers each. Colleen had been homeschooled all through middle school but ultimately enrolled at San Marcos High School.
Later she continued her education at Azusa Pacific University and she graduated from there in 2008. Her major was vocal performance and she excelled in it.
In the period from 2007 to 2009, Colleen earned her money by performing for The Walt Disney Company in Disney Studio in California. She also coached piano to children. Colleen decided to perform at parties too.
Colleen Ballinge Career
In 2009, she succeeded in getting into “High School Musical” Original movie where she gained the role of Kelsi. In 2010 and 2011, she appeared on two different albums by two different artists, Tim Prottey-Jones and Chris Passey.
In the summer of 2011 she had a role of Lynda Bird Johnson in “First Kids” and at the end of the same year she gained a role in an off-Broadway play titled “Odyssey-The Epic Musical” In 2012, she appeared in her first web-series. It was “Dr. Fubalous” and she played a part of nurse Royal.
She was very excited about it and she loved that she is doing something she adores: acting. In 2013, she again appeared in a web shows called “The Flipside” and “Hipsterhood”.
“Hipsterhood” was made by Shilpy Roy, an Indian-American movie director who made nineteen episodes of this series about hipsters in the USA.
She was invited to MTV’s “True Life” the same year. It is a documentary made by MTV which discloses the lives of young people in the entertainment industry. She appeared in an episode “I’m Famous Online”.
Next year, in 2014, she acted in “Wedding Plans!” Web series. In 2015 she had co-hosted her first TV talk show “The View”.
Colleen joined two The View’s hosts: Nicole Wallace and Rosie O’Donnell, and another guest host Michelle Williams in her TV show debut. The four women discussed the New England Patriots and the controversy about the use of deflated balls during the playoffs of NFL.
They also reached the subject of cyber-bullying and spoke about first kisses. Ballinger spoke about her little fiancé dispute about the pronunciation of the word “eggs” which caused laughter. After the show, Colleen had to go backstage and answer to her fans questions on Instagram.
A few months later she appeared in a video by Todrick Hall, named “Beauty and the Beat Roots”. As for the online work she has starred in “#HeyUSA” web series, hosted by Mamrie Hart. Colleen was also featured on “Clouds” single named “I Want To Touch You” in Flula Borg’s EP in 2015.
In 2016, she had a role in commercials of “DiGiorno” pizza and it brought her high popularity widely. In 2018 she starred in “Escape The Night” web series and in an animated movie “Ralph Breaks The Internet”. Her big success was a part of the music video by Ariana Grande named “Thank U, Next”.
The pregnant woman in “Thank U, Next” video is Colleen who clearly stands out from the crowd because of her third trimester. She is one of the cheerleaders in the video and dances with them. Miranda Sings was a guest on “Victorious”, Ariana Grande’s TV show where her career kicked off so the two of them know each other long.
Colleen guest appeared in five episodes of “Victorious” in 2012. In “Thank U, Next” Colleen dances with known girls such as Courtney Chipolone and Alexa Luria together with Nekai Johnson and some other girls and at the end of the video Ariana kisses her belly.
Colleen and Ariana collaborated a lot and have shared videos of private celebrations like birthdays. Colleen also made vlogs which included members of Ariana’s family (Frankie Grande was in one of her videos).
Their earliest work was in 2009 when they sang together for a musical named Rent. They sang “Take Me Or Leave Me”. In fact, one such video actually dates all the way back to 2009, when Grande and Ballinger were just a couple of Broadway babies singing “Take Me Or Leave Me” from the musical Rent.
Colleen always spoke about Ariana like she was her real sister. She stated that Ariana Grande’s family helped her a lot and gave her a place to stay in Bew York and also believed in her as a comedian.
In 2009, Colleen started her career with her character Miranda Sings in a one-woman comedy act. They were all live performed and she soon became famous.
She was also a part of “The Colleen & Josh Show” in 2015 and 2016. They have toured together all over the country and earned a lot of money.
She has her own YouTube channel where she posted thousands of videos, challenges, and discussions. She currently has over 8 million subscribers. She also has “Miranda Sings” Youtube channel with over 10 million subscribers.
She opened her third channel named “Colleen Vlogs” and amassed 2 million subscribers. Her channel began growing in 2013 and haven’t stopped from then. She has her own merchandise which can be bought on her website named mirandasings.com.
She has promoted several brands, such as “Jack in the Box” restaurants. In 2010, Colleen decided to relocate to NYC because she thought she would have more chances here.She came back home in 2012, realizing that the key to success is her Youtube channel.
In 2019, Ballinger has released her first Christmas EP and it was named “Christmas With Miranda Sings”. She had many roles as Miranda Sings: in a comedy movie “Varla Jean”, in “Victorious”, in “Dance Chat” web series, in “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” by famous Jerry Seinfeld.
Colleen is a big philanthropist and tries to help people as much as they can. In 2015, she raised funds for children battling with cancer and in 2016 she helped individual families with money for medical treatments of their children.
In 2015 she won two Teen Choice Awards: for Choice Web Star in Comedy and as Best Actress. She is currently nominated for 11th Shorty Awards. “The Gersh Agency” is her management agency.
She starred with her husband on “Haters Back Off” Netflix series. Their son is named Flynn Timothy Stocklin. One of her distinctive features is a common use of the phrase “Haters, back off”.
In 2015, she released a book with an interesting name: “Self-Help”. The book as a huge hit and was a Bestseller of the NY Times. Collen wrote it together with her brother Christopher Ballinger, and it was released by Simon & Schuster.
The book is not really a self-help book but a parody of one. The book is loaded with silly advice and comic artwork.
Colleen is so successful that her “Miranda Sings” comedy channel was at the 7th place and her second channel named “Psychosoprano” was on the 17th place of all YouTube channels related to comedy.
Colleen has a very high yearly income due to her wide area of work. Other than the money she receives from her Youtube channel she also receives endorsement money, money from various commercials (such as DiGiorno Pizza) and money from her comedy gigs.
Colleen’s fans are named “Mirfandas.” She is very grateful to them and she often mentions them in her interview. In 2016, in her interview for “The Verge”, she stated that she has received thousands of letters from children others consider different. She says she is happy that she helped them to build their confidence by her character of Miranda.
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Colleen Ballinger’s Net Worth in 2024
With a net worth of $12 million, Colleen Ballinger is an American comedian, actor, singer, and YouTube starl, as per reports of Celebrity Net Worth. Colleen Ballinger is best known for her role as Miranda Sings on the Internet.
She performs the role in comedy clubs and shows around the world and posts videos of herself playing the part on YouTube.
The name of Colleen’s YouTube account is Psychosoprano. Ballinger has done shows off-Broadway, been in TV shows and web series, and been a guest act on a lot of albums. At the time this was written, Ballinger’s videos on YouTube had more than 2 billion views and about 10 million followers.
In 2014, she played Miranda Sings on Scott Bakula’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” and on The Tonight Show. Ballinger has been named one of the 100 most important YouTubers. The Miranda Sings comedy channel she has was ranked #7 on YouTube, and the Psychosoprano account she has was ranked #17.
Colleen wrote a popular autobiography and got a chance to be in a Netflix show in 2015. She now makes $5 million a year from all of her different jobs. Colleen Ballinger, a young YouTube star, made two very famous channels. More than 2.5 million people have subscribed to PsychoSoprano, and over 4 million people have subscribed to Miranda Sings.
This led to a lot of people visiting her website, which made her a lot of money through ads. As of 2023, Ballinger is thought to have a net worth of about $2 million.
How did Colleen Ballinger get so much money?
It was at Azusa Pacific University that Ballinger got his college degree. However, knowing how to use current social media sites was more important to her success than going to college. In 2008, she put up her first movies on YouTube.
Since then, her popularity and wealth have grown at an amazing rate. She works closely with a group of other well-known YouTubers. She got benefits in her personal life that she didn’t expect from that.YouTube is how she met her boyfriend Joshua David Evans.
He has his own YouTube account too. In 2014, they got together and made a movie about it that was seen over 3.8 million times. That’s a friendship found on a reality show. Colleen is also a stunningly beautiful woman with the perfect beach body. Some spy pictures let us see that.
Colleen was up for the Teen Choice Award for Choice Web Star in 2014. Ballinger made up a character named Miranda for her movies. Miranda is an untalented girl who goes to home school and works very hard to do well. She also played Miranda on The Grace Helbig Show in 2015.
Colleen Ballinger’s Assets
Colleen bought a house in Encino, California, for $2.5 million in December 2015. For a short time, she dropped the price of this house from $3.75 million to $3.5 million after putting it on the market in January 2023. Colleen bought a house in Santa Barbara, California, for $6.2 million in November 2022.
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