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"I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job."
— Nathan Kress about acting on iCarly.

Nathan Karl Kress (born November 18th, 1992) [7] is an American film, television, and voice actor and a professional child model from the age of three. He is best known for his role as Freddie Benson on iCarly.

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Nathan Kress twitter photo

Biography

Early life

Nathan Kress was born in Glendale, California to devout Christian parents and resides in Southern California. He is the youngest of his three brothers. Nathan's parents recognized his exceptional memorization skills at an early age, along with his love of performing quotes, songs, and jingles to his family. Nathan's parents saw this as an opportunity and began entering him into auditions, although he fell out of his acting career at the age of 6, returning to a normal life. He returned to acting at the age of 10, performing minor roles in television shows such as Chicken Little, House, Drake & Josh, and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. He starred on the hit Nickelodeon comedy TV show iCarly from 2007 to 2012.

Nathan officially completed high school on May 25th, 2011 and tweeted this: "Done. With. High. School."[8]

Nathan married London Moore on November 15, 2015.[3]

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Career

When Kress was young, he would quote lines and monologues from television and perform for his family and friends. He began modeling, acting, and voiceover work at 3 years old. At age 6, he took a break from acting. Then at about age 10, asked his mom to begin homeschooling him so that he could pursue acting again. He voiced the role of Eizan Kaburagi from Nickelodeon's animated series Shuriken School. He has also guest starred in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody as Jamie. Kress has enjoyed playing dramatic roles in House, Standoff, and Without a Trace.

In early 2007, Nathan performed in a short film, Bag, for which he won a Jury Honorable Mention Award at the 168 Hour Film Festival for the role of

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Albert.[9] Bag also won the Festival award for Best Comedy.

On iCarly, Nathan's role was that of Freddie Benson, the technical producer for Carly's webshow, iCarly. Freddie is a computer whiz kid who has a major crush on Carly (Miranda Cosgrove) and an ongoing feud with Sam (Jennette McCurdy). "It's weird," says Kress, "I have to pretend to love Carly and hate Sam when actually we are just all really good friends." He co-stars with Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, and Jerry Trainor on the show iCarly.

The show, Nickelodeon's most-watched show aimed at tweens (9-15), catapulted Kress to national fame among adolescents. Kress' performance on the show has been characterized by one reviewer as "sweetly nerdy".

Interviewed by Nickutopia.com, he mentioned the typical schedule for a new episode: "Normally the way that our week is laid out on Monday we will read the script and rehearse Tuesday, and Wednesday we rehearse and at the end of the day we run through where we act it out, and Thursday and Friday we shoot.” He previously mentioned he did not believe he was going to get the role of "Freddie Benson" when auditioning with 200 or 300 people, until he got a callback, and after a screen test with Miranda and Jennette, they picked him.[10]

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Nathan with a puppy!!

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He talks about new episodes of Season 4 here on a ClevverTV.com interview, released on May 5th, 2011.[11]

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Madisen Hill, w/Nathan
June 2011

In 2015, Nathan made his directional debut on Nickelodeon's Henry Danger.[12] He directed 11 episodes of Henry Danger and 6 episodes of Game Shakers.

Personal Life

On May 29, 2015, Kress became engaged to his girlfriend and Into the Storm castmate London Elise Moore. They got married on November 15, 2015.[13][14]

Their first child, Rosie Carolyn Kress, was born on December 21, 2017.[4] Their second child, Evie Elsie Kress, was born on March 20, 2021, which was announced on Instagram.[5] Their third child, Lincoln William Kress was born in June 2023, as announced on both twitter and Instagram.[6]

Filmography

Films

Year Film Role Notes
1998 Babe: Pig in the City Easy/Tough Pup Voice Role
2005 Pickled Younger brother Short Film
Chicken Little Additional Voices Voice Role
2007 Magnus, Inc. Jacob Short Film
Bag Albert Short Film
NimBlingDit Alan Short film
2008 Gym Teacher: The Movie Ronald Waffle TV Movie
2011 Game of Your Life Phillip Reese TV Movie
2013 [15] Black Sky[16] Trey Morris[17] Film
2013 Snowflake The White Gorilla [18][19] Elvis Film (Direct to DVD)
2014 Into the Storm[20] Trey Film
2016 Tell Me How I Die Den Film
2017 Alexander IRL[21] EJ Film (On demand)
2017 Breaking Brooklyn Albee Davis Film
2017 8 Bodies Cop Short Film

Television

Year Show Role Notes
2005 House M.D Scott "Spin" (Season 2, Episode 6)
2005–2006 Jimmy Kimmel Live! Sketch characters Five episodes
2006 Talk Show 45 Sketch performer Unsold Fox pilot
Shuriken School Eizan Kaburagi Voice/Main role
Little Freaks Unknown character Voice role, Unsold Klasky Csupo pilot
Standoff (TV series) Young Matt "Life Support" (Season 1, Episode 5)
2007 Without a Trace Young Barry "Eating Away" (Season 5, Episode 13)
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Jamie "Back in the Game" (Season 2, Episode 61)
Drake & Josh Toplin Battle of Panthatar" - Unaired scenes, Cameo Appearance
Notes from the Underbelly Young Andrew "Surprise" (Season 1, Episode 8)
2007- 2012 iCarly Freddie Benson Main role
2008 iCarly: iGo to Japan Freddie Benson Main role, Nickelodeon TV-Movie
2010 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Mason Ward "Neverland" (Season 10, Episode 15)
True Jackson, VP Prince Gabriel "True Royal" (Season 2, Episode 14)
The Penguins of Madagascar Ronald Voice role
2011 iCarly: iParty with Victorious Freddie Benson Main role, Nickelodeon TV-Movie
2011 Victorious Audience member/Freddie Benson (according to TheSlap.com) "Who Did It to Trina?" (Season 2, Episode 9)
2012 Figure It Out Himself Judge Panelist (2 episodes)
2013 Mr. Young Pete (2 episodes) [22][23]
2014 Sam & Cat Freddie Benson Reprises his role as Freddie in #TheKillerTunaJump
2014 Video Game High School[24] New Law Episode: A Map to Sex Town (Season 3 Episode 3)
2014 Henry Danger Nathan Kress Portrays himself in

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2016 Star Wars Rebels[25] Wedge Antilles Voice Role
2017 Game Shakers Nathan Kress Episode: "Game Shippers"; Nathan appeared as himself to tell the Game Shaker girls whether Freddie prefers Carly or Sam. [26]
2018 LA To Vegas Ryan Episode: Pilot
2019 Pinky Malinky JJ Jameson 16 Episodes
2021- present iCarly Freddie Benson Main Role

Other

Year Appearance Role Notes
2011 Moi Music Video Superman Young Moi Cameo
2013 Expelled Felix Web Series

Trivia

  • Nathan tweeted "Fun Fact: I can sing exactly 38 notes. I will never use this knowledge in my entire life, but it was fun to sit at my piano and find out."
  • Nathan does some behind-the-camera work for Black Sky because at various parts of the film it's done by "first-person filming".[27]
  • Nathan has an Instagram account @NathanKress.[28]
  • Nathan and Jennette McCurdy were both mentioned as a clue in the quizzical game show Jeopardy!. The clue was Jennette McCurdy and Nathan Kress, and the answer was "What is iCarly?".[29]
  • Nathan was also featured in another clue during the quizzical game show Jeopardy! where it described him as an actor.[30]
  • Nathan can play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on the ukulele.[31] He wanted to learn how to play because his friend Doug Brochu does. [32]
  • Nathan's name is featured on "The Classic Crime's" 2012 album art. [33]
  • Nathan wants to learn how to play an acoustic guitar before production ends on filming of "Category Six". [34]
  • Nathan will join "Category Six", his first action-packed flick on the big screen. Kress plays a brother in search of his missing sibling.[35]
    • Began filming Category Six on location in Detroit, Michigan July 14, 2012 [36] and his co-star is actor, Jeremy Sumpter. [37][38]
    • His little brother is portrayed by Max Deacon. [39]
  • Nathan takes lessons to learn to pilot an airplane. [40]
  • Nathan has a habit whenever he watches TV to keep the volume at numbers that only have multiples of five.[41]
  • Nathan is a devout Christian.
  • Nathan's older brothers Kevin and Andrew make up half the rock band named Five Mile Town, which he supports. [42]
  • In the first season of iCarly, Nathan was initially shorter than Miranda Cosgrove and was given a pair of very large platform shoes to wear, to make up the height difference between himself and Miranda. Due to Nathan beginning puberty between seasons one and two, he no longer needed the shoes as he had grown to about the same height as Miranda. By season three, he slightly surpassed Miranda's height as seen in ISpeed Date, when she rested her head on his shoulder.
  • Nathan's "Random Facts About Himself to Seventeen Magazine. [43]
    • He had had his first kiss when he about four or five years old with his neighbor from across the street.
    • His celebrity crush is Keira Knightley ever since Pirates of the Caribbean She's been at the top of celebrity crush list and he really respects her as an actor and as a person.
    • His favorite girly movie is 500 Days of Summer with no shame whatsoever.
    • His TV Guilty Pleasure is Storage Wars.
    • He mentions he hasn't lived long enough to pick someone to play him in his life movie, but if he had to choose, he would choose Josh Hartnett.
    • He already has his dream job.
    • He is closest with his mother in his family.
    • He would want to trade lives with the President.
    • As of January 2012, he most recently bought Dan Schneider a birthday gift and keeps about $26 in his wallet.
    • He loves Twitter, Chipotle and In-and-Out.
    • He claims one of his worst habits is oversleeping.
    • He describes his most recent (as January 2012) dream as this "Ironically enough, the dream I had last night was one of the few that I actually remember. I dreamt the whole iCarly cast was supposed to be on a talk show together, but I kept getting lost and distracted in a gigantic mall, so I missed my flight and couldn't be on the show. To top it off, I accidentally crashed a fancy futuristic elevator and everyone got mad at me! If anyone wants to offer an interpretation of what that dream means, I'm all ears.."
  • Nathan's Top 5 favorite episodes of iCarly are iFence, iTwins, iBloop, iPity The Nevel, and iStart a Fanwar .[44]
    • iFence: "We run around smacking people with swords the whole time. Need I say more?"
    • iTwins: "I've always loved this episode, it's just funny stuff! And Jennette was brilliant playing two characters."
    • iBloop: "Although I technically wasn't in the episode except for my bloopers, I still say this is definitely a favorite. It's a cool look into the fun we have on set that doesn't make it to TV!"
    • iPity the Nevel: "I had SO much fun doing a parody of a vampire, and having Nevel (Reed Alexander) in an episode is always a blast!"
    • iStart a Fan War: "Jack Black. I don't think any more explanation is needed!"
  • Appeared in the episode Who Did It to Trina? in Dan's other show Victorious.
  • Over the past five years his signature has changed from Nathan Kress and various autograph signings with his co-stars Jennette McCurdy and Miranda Cosgrove to "Nat K" or sometimes "Nat Kr-" as seen in this interview with Bop & TigerBeat Magazine. [45]
  • Nathan has been a licensed driver since he was 17 in 2009 and he has a silver Camaro. He named his Camaro Gracie and loves because his family has a history of owning Camaro.[46]
  • His ex-girlfriend was singer, actress, and dancer Madisen Hill a.k.a Madi. They were in a relationship for two years and broke up in October, 2014.[47] Nathan is close with all his iCarly co-stars.
  • Nathan made a cameo appearance as young Moi in their music video Superman along with his girlfriend Madisen Hill.[48]
  • Nathan tweeted he's currently shooting a new movie role in Atlanta, Georgia,[49] He also tweeted to research his role he, along with the cast, are learning about and playing video games.
  • In Nathan's new movie he plays an incoming college freshman going to a video game design school. In the referenced interview this is the first he's been called a child star grown up into a grown Hollywood hearthob.[50]
  • He is the youngest of three brothers. He has two older brothers Kevin and Andrew who are not into showbusiness.[51]
  • Nathan explained why he blocked some his fans on twitter. [52]
  • During the Drake & Josh days, Dan Schneider had cast Nathan Kress as Toplin, a nerdy boy who had a crush on Megan Parker (Drake's sister, and Josh's stepsister) in the episode "Battle of the Panthatar." However, when he saw the potential Kress had, he gave him a character for iCarly, this time as a boy who had a massive crush on Carly. As for Toplin's scenes, they were ultimately cut, because the producers were worried that the young Nickelodeon fans seeing Nathan on Drake & Josh as a character similar to Freddie would confuse them.
  • Nathan will be appearing in a new TV Movie "Game of Your Life", December 2, 2011 on NBC.[53][54][55]
  • Nathan answered fans' questions via Twitter. [56]
  • Fan 1: "if you weren't an actor-what kind of work do you think you would be interested in?"
    • Nathan: "The Army is the only other thing I've ever really been interested in actually"
  • Fan 2: "Would you rather get a puppy sized elephant or an elephant sized puppy????"
    • Nathan: "Puppy sized elephant! Oh my goodness that'd be amazing"
  • Fan 3: "what's one of your weaknesses? Something you want to become better at?"
    • Nathan: "Musical talent is something I really want to work on. I'm starting to learn piano!"
  • Fan 4: "weird I know, but what hand do you write with? lol im a lefty ;)"
    • Nathan: "Me too! Lefty pride!! ;)"
  • Fan 5: "Do you really know about tech stuff IRL?"
    • Nathan: "Not as much as Freddie, but I know my way around a computer :)"
  • Fan 6: "What's a place you've always wanted to go to?"
    • Nathan: "Europe! Especially London and Paris. I did the Italian thing last summer :)"
  • Nathan Kress as Phillip Reese in NBC's Game of Your Life. [57]
  • Nathan's official Ustream Channel is BruinDude92 like his old Twitter Username. [58][59]
  • The best advice Nathan said his dad ever gave him was to "strive for excellence. [60]
  • Nathan taught himself the piano intro to Relient K's song "If You Want It" without replaying the track first.[61]
  • Nathan says, he enjoyed playing Phillip Reese in Game of Your Life because he's so different from Freddie.[62][63]
  • Some of Nathan's favourite Christmas traditions are eating tamales Christmas morning and while opening presents he and his brothers, Kevin and Andrew would go outside and watch the firetruck that passes by on their street every Christmas.[64]
  • Nathan said he has no strange or unusual talents, though he can wiggle his ears a little bit.[65]
  • In his March 2012 UStream Broadcast, Nathan revealed he does have a Tumblr account, though did not specify a username.
  • As he said on Twitter, Nathan has left Nickelodeon after iCarly has ended filming. But he has been very happy with his career lately as he has stated.
  • Category Six has been renamed to Black Sky. [66]
  • He portrays Wedge Antilles in Disney XD's Star Wars Rebels. Nathan stated this was a dream come true for him, as he is an avid Star Wars fan.
  • Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy and Jerry Trainor watched Nathan's wedding.
  • Nathan Kress is the second cast member to get married after Danielle Morrow.
  • He directs several episodes of the revival series.

Gallery

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External Links

References

  1. IMDB.com (Trivia)
  2. Nathan tweets about his heritage
  3. 3.0 3.1 See iCarly's Nathan Kress Wedding to London Elise Moore
  4. 4.0 4.1 Nathan Kress' tweet
  5. 5.0 5.1 Nathan Kress' Instagram
  6. 6.0 6.1 Nathan Kress' tweet, June 27, 2023
  7. Nathan Kress - Famous Birthdays
  8. Nathan's tweet, Twitter.com (May 25, 2011)
  9. 168 Hour Film Project: 2007 - 168 Festival Winners
  10. Nickutopia.com Interviews Nathan Kress From Nickelodeon’s "iCarly", Nickutopia.com (Aug. 31, 2010)
  11. YouTube.com, (May 5, 2011)
  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TACiJDyMA_Q&ab_channel=DanWarp
  13. Nathan Kress From iCarly Is Engaged to London Elise Moore—Check Out Details About His Sweet Proposal!
  14. Nathan Kress Is Married! iCarly Star Says "I Do" to London Elise Moore in Front of Miranda Cosgrove and Friends
  15. http://oaklandpostonline.com/2012/08/28/campus/black-sky-looms-over-campus/
  16. Tweet confirming the movie title change
  17. Black Sky character
  18. Snowflake Date reference
  19. Project association
  20. Nathan Kress Talks INTO THE STORM
  21. Alexander IRL
  22. Mr. Young guest spot
  23. Number of episodes
  24. Nathan Kress at VGHS Season 3 Premiere at YouTube Space LA
  25. An iCarly Star is Joining the Star Wars Universe
  26. 5 Times Your Favorite Characters Came Back to Surprise You
  27. ClevverTV interview about Black Sky
  28. Tweet confirming Instagram account
  29. McCurdy and Kress Jeopardy Question
  30. Nathan second Jeopardy clue
  31. "Somewhere Over The Rainbow Ukulele tweet
  32. Nathan Doug Ukulele tweet
  33. Nathan's name album art
  34. Learning to play guitar tweet
  35. Nathan's role in the new movie Category Six
  36. Starting production on Category Six (July 13, 2012)
  37. Nathan's co-star
  38. Category Six beginning location
  39. Nathan's Category Six little brother
  40. Nathan takes flying lessons
  41. iCarly cast Random Facts (Nick.com)
  42. Nathan tweets about his brothers' band
  43. Seventeen Magazine Interview 2012
  44. Nathan's Best Picks, iTunes.com (July 11, 2011)
  45. here Nathan's new way of writing his signature
  46. Nathan talks about his car
  47. Nathan Kress & Madisen Hill Split
  48. Moi-Superman music video
  49. Nathan's new movie role in Atlanta (August 24th, 2011)
  50. Details on Nathan's new movie role
  51. Nathan's older brothers IMDB.com (Trivia)
  52. Nathan's Twitter Blocks Reasoning
  53. Nathan's role in "Game of Your Life"'
  54. More details on "Game of Your Life"'
  55. Game of Your Life Promo
  56. Nathan Kress Answers Fan Questions
  57. Game of Your Life 1st Trailer
  58. Twitter Announcing Ustream Broadcast (Aug. 16 2010)
  59. Nathan's official Ustream Channel
  60. The best advice ever given to Nathan around 1:21, Vimeo.com
  61. Learning Relient K intro Twitter.com (November 20th, 2011)
  62. Nathan Talks Game of Your Life
  63. Nathan talks to FanLaLa about Game of Your Life
  64. Nathan's Favorite Christmas Traditions
  65. Nathan's talent
  66. New title for the movie Nathan's costarring in Black Sky


ved Cast
Main Cast
Miranda CosgroveJennette McCurdyNathan KressJerry TrainorNoah Munck
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