Chris Colfer
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Christopher Paul Colfer (born in Clovis, California on May 27th, 1990) is an American actor, singer, dancer, writer, and producer. Colfer won the 2010 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series for his performance as Kurt Hummel on Glee and was nominated for a 2010 SAG Award for the same role. In 2011, at 20 years old, Colfer was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. For two years in a row he has been nominated <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Colfe
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5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,587x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,514x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,719x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,020x
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- Born
- Christopher Paul Colfer , ( 1990-05-27 ) May 27, 1990 (age 36) , Clovis, California , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actor singer writer
- Years active
- 2008–present
- Partner
- Will Sherrod (2013–present)
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Christopher Paul Colfer (born May 27, 1990) is an American actor, singer, and author. He gained international recognition for his portrayal of Kurt Hummel on the television musical Glee (2009–2015). Colfer's portrayal of Kurt received critical praise and won him several awards, including the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film, three consecutive People's Choice Awards for Favorite Comedic TV Actor from 2013 to 2015, two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominations and one Grammy Award nomination. In April 2011, Colfer was named one of the Time 100, Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Colfer wrote, starred in, produced, and novelized his first film, Struck by Lightning, which debuted at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. He also wrote The New York Times bestselling The Land of Stories series of children's fiction books, starting with The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell. As of September 2025, he has published twenty-one books.
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