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Darren Criss
Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He rose to fame starring on the television series Glee (2010–2015) and received a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for his leading role as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018). He has also appeared on Broadway and in film and has released several musical albums.
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Born 5 February 1987 · Q295502
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2026· 7 entries
Showbiz Junkies: Darren Criss Joins Hidden Heroes: A Descendants Story
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AOL: Glee’s Darren Criss Cast in Unexpected Pinocchio Role for Wild Disney Crossover Movie
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AOL: Darren Criss, Sherry Cola join 'Descendants' spinoff film
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BroadwayWorld: Darren Criss, James Monroe Iglehart and More Join HIDDEN HEROES: A DESCENDANTS STORY
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BroadwayWorld: Exclusive: Darren Criss Shoots the Moon in First Look at NBC's PASSWORD
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Public attention spiked: 13,879 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10.1× the usual 1,371, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Musical performances ce
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2025· 3 entries
Released album “Maybe Happy Ending”.
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Published video “Maybe Happy Ending - Original Broadway Cast Recording (Official Trailer)”.
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Criss won two Tony Awards, for Best Actor in a Musical, becoming the first Asian American actor to win in the category, and for Best Musical as co-producer, both for Maybe Happy Ending
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2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: Darren Criss on counting his lucky stars
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Page Six: Darren Criss trolled after confirming newborn son’s name is Brother: ‘OK Berenstain Bears’
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Their second child, a son (named Brother László Criss) was born on June 3, 2024.
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2023· 4 entries
Published video “May I? A Very Darren Crissmas North American Tour 11/21 - 12/20 https://darrencriss.me/crissmastour”.
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Published video “A Very Darren Crissmas 2023 kicks off Nov 21st https://darrencriss.me/crissmastour”.
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Published video “Live at The London Palladium on October 15th at 2:30pm and 8pm darrencriss.me/London2023”.
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Published video “Lizzy McAlpine and Darren Criss perform A Little Bit of Everything by Dawes”.
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2022· 1 entry
Published video “A Very Darren Crissmas LIVE!”.
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2021· 7 entries
Published video “Darren Criss - (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag ft. Adam Lambert (Behind The Scenes)”.
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Published video “Final Rehearsal for the livestream tomorrow on emusiclive”.
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Published video “Darren Criss - Christmas Dance”.
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Published video “Darren Criss - I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (With Darci Lynne and Petunia)”.
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Criss released his first Christmas-themed album through Decca Records
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Released album “A Very Darren Crissmas”.
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Released ep “Masquerade”.
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2019· 1 entry
It was announced that Criss would be an actor and executive producer for Hollywood, released on Netflix on May 1, 2020
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Released ep “Homework EP”.
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Criss reunited with Glee creator Ryan Murphy to portray serial killer Andrew Cunanan in the second season of Murphy's anthology series American Crime Story
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2015· 1 entry
Criss co-founded Elsie Fest which is touted as "New York City's first outdoor music festival celebrating tunes from the stage and screen"
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2013· 1 entry
Criss was made an honorary member of Yale University's a cappella singing group The Whiffenpoofs
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2010· 3 entries
Criss became the 400,000th member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
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Criss released an independently produced EP called Human
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Released ep “Human”.
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2009· 2 entries
Criss, along with some friends and classmates from the University of Michigan, co-founded StarKid Productions, a musical theater company
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Criss obtained his bachelor of fine arts from the University of Michigan, majoring in theatre performance and minoring in musicology and Italian
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2008· 1 entry
Spent a semester abroad studying Italian theater at the Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo, Italy
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1987· 1 entry
Born 1987-02-05.
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