
Age: 39
male
Darren Everett Criss (born February 5, 1987) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He rose to fame starring on the television series Glee (2010–2015) and received Emmy and Golden Globe acting awards 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. A founding member and co-owner of StarKid Productions, a musical theater company based in Chicago, Criss first garnered attention playing the lead role of Harry Potter in, and writing most of the music and lyrics for, StarKid's musical production of A Very Potter Musical. Criss has also starred on Broadway as a replacement in both How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. In 2015, Criss co-founded Elsie Fest which is touted as "New York City's first outdoor music festival celebrating tunes from the stage and screen". In March 2017, Criss debuted his indie pop band Computer Games along with his brother Chuck Criss. In addition to his music endeavors, Criss starred in the second installment of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story. Subtitled The Assassination of Gianni Versace (2018), Criss's portrayal of spree killer Andrew Cunanan received acclaim from critics, and earned him an Emmy win for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries, or Television Film.

Darren Criss

Lykou Xanthippos
for Lykou Xanthippos in Daughter of Sparta
Suggested by caitlinpaige

17-year-old Daphne has spent her life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be excepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis—who holds the fence brothers fate in her hands—upends the life she’s worked so hard to build. Nine the series items have been stolen from Mount Olympus and if Delphene cannot find them, the gods winning power school feet away, the mortal world will descent into chaos, and her brothers life will be forfeit. Guided by Artemis‘s twin—the handsome and entirely-too -self-assured god Apollo—Daphne’s journey will take her from the labyrinth of the Minotaur to the riddle spinning speaks of devious team, her up with mythological legends such as Theseus and Hippolyte of the Amazons, and pick her against the gods themselves.

