Christopher Paul "Chris" Colfer is an American actor, singer, author and producer. He is known for his portrayal of Kurt Hummel on the television series Glee.
Actor, Screenwriter, Singer, Author, Film Producer
Nationality
United States of America
Parents
Tim Colfer, Karyn Colfer
Siblings
Hannah Colfer
Nicknames
Christopher Paul Colfer , Christopher Paul "Chris" Colfer , Chris
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor (2011), People’s Choice Awards in the category of Favorite Comedic TV Actor (2013-2015)
Music Groups
Glee Cast
Nominations
People's Choice Award for Favorite On-Screen Chemistry, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series, Teen Choice Award for Choice Red Carpet Fashion Icon Male, Satellite Award for B...
Movies
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Struck by Lightning, 8, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, Glee Encore, Russel Fish: The Sausage and Eggs Incident
TV Shows
Glee
Star Sign
Gemini
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Trademark
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Porcelain skin
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High-pitched voice
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Countertenor singing voice
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Quote
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I started sleep shopping online. Yeah, and these really random packages kept showing up on my door step and I'd open them up and would be so random, like, the complete series of The Carol Burnett Show (1967), and this huge like, life-size poster of Lady Gaga - I don't know why my subconscious wanted that poster.
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I liked performing "Push It". We were all pregnant after that number.
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I love me some llamas.
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I'm deaf, I have no voice, I think I lost my virginity out there...
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The only rumor that there has really ever been about me is that I was killed by a fruit truck.
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Glee (2009) is about a high school glee club, like a show choir, that umm, needs a little help. They're horrible. Horrible, like, horrible, hor-ri-ble. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Did I mention they're horrible?
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I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.
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I have something called the sea monkey method, and what that is; when I was fourteen, I had sea monkeys, and I forgot to feed them. However, they remained alive for seven months. And what they were doing was eating themselves, and living off of their waste. So my method, or, my theory, is that we could come up with some sort of substance that could, be reused, or, eat itself, if you will. Yeah, it would, better the environment and not leave such a carbon footprint.
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Everytime you do a kissing scene, you're probably going to kiss about sixteen o-or eighteen times, because they have to get four, from this angle, four from this angle, four from this angle, four from this angle - I don't know why they're down there - four from this angle...it's never just, once.
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I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I'm hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation.
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[about Kristin Chenoweth being on Glee (2009)] As soon as she came on, I was like, you know, constantly like, "Oh Hi Kristin! Hi... I'm your biggest fan... We sound exactly alike".
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Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter! I'm 19! I mean, the 90's were a blur but I don't think I was impregnating anyone when I was two. I'm gonna find this girl and get her ass to school!
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It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.
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Nurse Jackie (2009) is my favorite show! Brilliant characters! It makes me laugh so hard, that police come to my door thinking an animal is being abused.
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On getting slushied on Glee (2009): It felt like I was bitch-slapped by an iceberg.
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My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.
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Fact
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Had his first ever sip of alcohol with his fellow Gleeks at Kevin McHale's apartment along with Amber Riley and Jenna Ushkowitz.
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When his Glee (2009) character Kurt Hummel cries on camera, Colfer insists on genuine tears that he himself summons up.
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Favorite movie when he was little was Sister Act (1992). He would put a pillowcase on his head and pretend to be a nun while watching the movie.
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Originally auditioned for the role of "Artie" on Glee (2009), but did not get it. The casting agents were so impressed with his audition that they wrote the role of "Kurt" for him. They named the character "Kurt Hummel", due to Colfer's past role of "Kurt" in "The Sound of Music", when he was fourteen, and because of his rosy cheeks, which reminded them of "Hummel" figurines.
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Inspired the Glee (2009) episode, Glee: The Rocky Horror Glee Show (2010), due to his persistent campaigning to get to sing "The Time Warp".
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Was bullied in high school, but feels that it made him much more quick witted and fast on his feet.
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During high school, he was involved with speech & debate, drama, the F.F.A., was president of the writers' club, editor of the school literary magazine, and captain of Destination Imagination.
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Holds many speech and debate champion titles.
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Assistant directed a theatrical benefit for Valley Children's Hospital when he was 14.
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Wrote and directed Shirley Todd, a musical spoof of Sweeney Todd during his senior year of high school. He also starred as Mr. Lovett.
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He practices Sai.
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Lost over 40 pounds in 2007 thanks to "horrible methods called diet and exercise.".
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The scar on the left side of his neck is from surgery in 1998.
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Before becoming an actor, Chris worked mornings before school in the cafeteria as a cookie scooper and summers as a clerk at a dry cleaners.
$5 Million
$45 Thousand Per Episode
