Courtney Miller
Courtney Ruth Miller (born June 19, 1995) is an American actress, comedian, director, writer, and internet microcelebrity known mostly for her work on the YouTube channel Smosh. She started her career as a comedian on the social media platform Vine before joining Smosh in May 2015, and has since become the channel’s most featured cast member other than its founders, Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla. Early life. Courtney Ruth Miller was born on June 19, 1995 in Oak Park, California, a small, unincorporated community of just 13,989 in 2020 east of Thousand Oaks, California of the Oxnard -Thousand Oaks-Ventura Metropolitan Area. Born into a Mormon family, she has six siblings, four older sisters and two younger brothers, whose parents split when she was a child. Although Oak Park is generally very wealthy, with a median household income of $137,047, Miller was as wealthy as many of her neighbors. She attended Oak Park High School from the fall of 2009 to the spring of 2013, where she participated in the school’s theater, track and field, and cross country programs as well as its Comedy Sportz and Film Festival clubs. Career. Around the time of her  graduation in 2013, Miller began posting on the now-defunct, short-form video hosting service Vine, where she would first begin to succeed as a social media influencer, gaining over 200,000 followers on the platform before it was discontinued in January 2017. After dropping out of community college, Miller would work at a pharmacy before quitting to work as an Assistant Producer for the Los Angeles-based music distribution and publishing company Create Music Group for three months. She would quit this job after joining Smosh by becoming a recurring cast member in the brand’s second expansion of the  cast, which included her and costar Shayne Topp, through connection with cast member Olivia Sui, whom Miller had met and collaborated with as creators on Vine.