Trivia

She loves to figure skate in her spare time, and has been in a few figure skating competitions.

McCurdy confirmed in Feb. 2021 that she was done with acting and will now focus on writing and directing. She revealed she never liked acting and only got into it because her family didn't have a lot of money and she was the main breadwinner by age 10 or 11. She also admitted she regrets some of her most iconic roles and she's ashamed of them.

Loves to read books. Writes screenplays.

She writes, directs, and produces her own short films.

Her mother, Debra, battled recurrences of breast cancer, which first occurred in March 1996, and thought cured after a bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy, breast surgery, and radiation sessions [June 2011], but she died on Sept. 20, 2013.

Loves to read and write poetry and screenplays.

She is a StarPower Ambassador for the Starlight Children's Foundation.

Shares a birthday with her Sam & Cat (2013) co-star, Ariana Grande.

She has three dogs (Snoopy, Chewie and Musashi) and two turtles (Tootsen and Zeus).

As of 2018, she has retired from acting.

She has three older brothers named Marcus, Dustin and Scott.

Many branches of her family have lived in the U.S. since the 1600s. Through her mother, she is of English, French-Canadian, one eighth Italian/Sicilian, Swedish, Dutch, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Finland-Swedish, Polish, and 1/64th Mexican, descent.

Collects stuffed animals, hats, books and crafts.

She was inspired to become an actress by Harrison Ford after watching Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). She was fortunate enough to be able to act alongside her idol in Hollywood Homicide (2003).

Revealed in her autobiography "I'm glad my mother died" that her biological father is Andy Martin.