PENN Jillette is one-half of the magic duo Penn & Teller, who launched their act to great success in the 1980s.
As a performer on stage and screen, Jillette has made a name for himself worldwide as a successful magician with a career that spans over 40 years.
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Who is Penn Jillette?
Penn Fraser Jillette is an American magician, actor, musician, inventor, TV presenter, and author.
He was born on March 5, 1955, in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
He is best known for his work with fellow magician Teller as half of the team Penn & Teller.
The duo has been featured in a number of stage and TV shows, such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Penn & Teller: Bulls***!
As an author, Jillette has published eight books, including the New York Times Bestseller, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales.
What TV shows has Penn Jillette been in?
In 2008, Jillette was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, paired with professional dancer Kym Johnson.
He was the first celebrity to be eliminated.
He was also one of the contestants on The Celebrity Apprentice season five in February 2012.
Other TV appearances include:
- Celebrity Jeopardy!
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- 25 Words or Less
- Big Star Little Star
- The View
- Celebrity Food Fight
- Piers Morgan Tonight
- Today
- The Wendy Williams Show
- Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
- Toy Story
- The Simpsons
- Modern Family
- Friends
Is Penn married and does he have children?
Penn is married to Emily Jillette.
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Like her husband, Emily works in the entertainment industry.
According to her IMDB profile, she began working on movie sets in the early 1990s.
Emily was listed as a production assistant on the movies Rookie of the Year and Striking Distance.
The pair met in the early 2000s after one of his shows and then tied the knot roughly two years after dating.
According to public records, the couple got married on November 23, 2004.
Their daughter, Moxie CrimeFighter, was born in 2005, while their son Zolten Penn arrived the following year.
How did Penn meet Teller?
Penn and Teller were introduced to each other by Wier Chrisemer in the 1970s.
They performed their first show together at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival on August 19, 1975.
Speaking in an interview with CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith about their success as a duo, Jillette said: “When I first met him, Teller was already working silently.
“I think he was really interested in seeing if he could lie to people without speaking. By the time I met Teller, he was a good magician. I was a juggler. I wasn’t a funny physical comedian and then I decided I wanted to do more talking.
“We’re from middle-class backgrounds. My father was a jail guard, Teller’s dad was a commercial artist.
“We came to New York on a whim in 1984. Producers took a shot on us and we did not expect to be successful.”
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