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Direct may refer to:

• Direct current, a direct flow of electricity
• Direct examination, the in-trial questioning of a witness by the party who has called him or her to testify
• Direct sum of modules, a construction in abstract algebra which combines several vector spaces
• Direct (Vangelis album), 1988 album by Vangelis
• Direct (EP), a 2002 EP by The 77s
• Direct (Tower of Power album), 1981
• DirectX, a proprietary dynamic media platform
• Mars Direct, a proposal for a manned mission to Mars
• DIRECT, a proposed space shuttle-derived launch vehicle

Computing[link]

• Direct access (disambiguation), a method of accessing data in a database
• Direct connect (disambiguation), various methods of telecommunications and computer networking
• Direct memory access, access to memory by hardware subsystems independently of the CPU

Mathematics[link]

• Directed set, in order theory
• Direct limit of (pre), sheaves

See also[link]

• Direction (disambiguation)
• Director (disambiguation)
• Indirect (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Direct"
• All pages with titles containing "Direct"

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Jean-Luc Stéphane Reichmann (born in Toulouse on 2 November 1960) is a French radio and television host. He started a career on radio in 1989, then became TV presenter in 1995 and tried a career as actor since 2008. He is now particularly known for his daily show Attention à la marche, broadcast at 12:00 am on TF1. He has four children.^[1]

Voice-over[link]

• 1989-1999 : Les Guignols de l'info, Canal+
• 1991-1994 : Que le meilleur gagne and N'oubliez pas votre brosse à dents, France 2
• The Price Is Right, TF1
• Porco Rosso (animated feature ) : Curtis
• Tribunal (series)
• Motus, France 2
• Ma voyante préférée (series)

TV shows[link]

• Le Trophée Campus, France 2
• 1995-2000 : Les Z'amours, France 2
• 1998 : Jeux sans frontières, France 2
• 1999 : Les Forges du désert, France 2
• Since 2001 : Attention à la marche, TF1
• Since 2007 : Phénoménal, TF1
• 2009 : Identity, TF1
• 2011 : Les douze coups de midi, TF1
• 2012 : Une minute pour tout gagner, TF1

TV films[link]

• 2008 : Le monde est petit, TF1^[2]

• 2011 : Victor Sauvage, TF1

References[link]

Chris Colfer
Colfer at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.
Born	Christopher Paul Colfer (1990-05-27) May 27, 1990 (age 22) Clovis, California, United States
Occupation	Actor, singer, producer and writer
Years active	2009–present

Christopher Paul "Chris" Colfer^[1][2] (born May 27, 1990)^[3] is an American actor and singer, known for his portrayal of Kurt Hummel on the television series Glee. He is a Golden Globe winner and a two-time Emmy nominee.

Colfer was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2011.^[4]

Early life and education[link]

Colfer was born in Clovis, California, the son of Karyn Colfer (née Boling) and Tim Colfer.^[5] Colfer has Irish ancestry; he has stated "I’m very Irish, my family is all Irish and St. Patrick’s day in my house is crazy."^[6] He was home schooled for half of 7th grade and 8th grade because he was bullied so much in school.^[7]

While a student at Clovis East High School, Colfer was involved with the speech and debate program, where he won "many speech and debate champion titles," including placing ninth in the State Competition for Dramatic Interpretation, the drama club, the FFA, "was president of the Writer’s Club, editor of the school's literary magazine, and captain of Destination ImagiNation."^[8] As a high school senior, he wrote, starred in, and directed a spoof of Sweeney Todd entitled "Shirley Todd", in which all of the roles were gender-reversed.^[9] One of his real in-school experiences was later turned into a sub-plot for his character on Glee, when the high school teachers denied him the chance to sing "Defying Gravity" from the musical Wicked because it is traditionally sung by a woman.^[10][11] His grandmother, a minister, let him sing the song in her church.^[10]

Career[link]

Early work[link]

Colfer at the Time 100 Gala, April 27, 2011

The first show he was involved in with community theater was West Side Story.^[12] He also starred in a production of The Sound of Music as the character Kurt.^[13]

At the age of eighteen, Colfer starred as Russel Fish in Russel Fish: The Sausage and Eggs Incident, a short film where an awkward teenager must pass a Presidential Physical Fitness test or fail gym class and lose his admission to Harvard University.

[edit] Glee

Colfer's first TV role came in 2009 when he was cast as Kurt Hummel on Fox's Glee. Kurt is a fashionable gay countertenor who is routinely bullied at school, not only for being gay, but also for being part of the very unpopular Glee Club. Colfer auditioned for the part of Artie Abrams, who uses a wheelchair, a role which eventually went to Kevin McHale.^[13] The show's creator, Ryan Murphy, was so impressed with Colfer that he created the role of Kurt specifically for him,^[14] and in the process, scrapped a planned character called Rajish so they could add Kurt. In a 2010 interview with Allison Kugel, Colfer stated that "There have been a couple of times when I have gone to Ryan Murphy and told him a couple of things that have happened to me, and then he writes it into the show. Or he'll ask me what song I would want to sing, in this situation or in that situation. I don't think any of us directly try to give input on the character or on the storyline, but they definitely steal things from us."^[11]

Murphy revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that at the conclusion of Glee's third season, Colfer's character Kurt will graduate from McKinley High along with fellow seniors including Rachel Berry (actress Lea Michele) and Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith). At the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con, producer Brad Falchuk stated that "because they're graduating doesn't mean they're leaving the show." Falchuk also stated "it was never our plan or our intention to let them go…. They are not done with the show after this season."^[15]

Colfer won the 2010 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series for his performance as Kurt Hummel.^[16] He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award^[17] in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category for his portrayal of Kurt.

Kurt's characterization[link]

Colfer has explained that Kurt "puts on a very confident, 'I'm better than you' persona, but underneath it all he's the same anxious and scared teen everyone is/was at some point. In later episodes, he goes through an identity crisis, accepting and finding acceptance for who he is. [...] He's a tough guy in designer clothes."^[18] The character is also gay, which is at the crux of many of his conflicts on the show. Colfer has a high vocal range, as displayed in the episode "Wheels", in which his character demonstrates the unusual ability (for a man) of singing a "high F" (actually an F5). However, his character deliberately pretends to be unable to sing the note in order to spare his father the harassment he would receive for having a gay son.^[19] However, in the episode "Choke" when his character is auditioning for NYADA, he sings "Not the Boy Next Door" from The Boy from Oz a song Kurt claims is "something a little more out there, but much more me", successfully hitting an High G, a note higher than High F. Tibideaux, a famous and exacting performer who is one of NYADA's most notorious alumni, is impressed by both his performance and the risk he took singing that.

Writing and other work[link]

Colfer will star in the coming-of-age comedy Struck by Lightning that has been set up with David Permut (Youth in Revolt). The plot revolves around Colfer's character, who is struck and killed by a bolt of lightning, and chronicles his exploits as he blackmails his fellow senior classmates into contributing to a literary magazine he is publishing. Colfer also wrote the script for Struck By Lightning, which was shot during the Glee hiatus in the summer of 2011.^[20]

On June 8, 2011, Colfer signed a book deal to write two novels for children to young adults.(age range) the first of which, The Land of Stories, is scheduled for release on July 17, 2012.^[21]

Colfer is also writing another movie, set to film next summer, in which he will appear as a supporting actor.

Colfer also, landed a deal with Disney Channel for a pilot based on his book "The Little Leftover Witch". ^[22]

In March 2012, Colfer was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, '8' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as Ryan Kendall.^[23] The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.^[24][25]

It was announced on March 16, 2012 that he would present an award at the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards. During the presentation of the award for Favorite TV Actress, the special "Exploding Blimp" was placed in front of Colfer by Heidi Klum where it burst open, covering him in the network's trademark green slime.^[26]

Personal life[link]

Colfer is openly gay^[27] and shared on Access Hollywood that his parents were accepting of him but he was frequently bullied at school.^[9][28][29] Colfer's younger sister, Hannah, suffers from severe epilepsy,^[30] and often experiences over fifty seizures in an hour.^[31] Colfer has commented that when he was younger he used acting as a method of escaping the stress involved with having a family member with disabilities.^[13][32]

Colfer appeared on the British chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on June 18, 2010, along with his fellow Glee co-stars Amber Riley and Matthew Morrison. He demonstrated his skill with a pair of sai, revealing that he bought a pair on eBay and regularly practices in his trailer. He also mentioned that he would like it if his sai could be worked in to an episode of Glee; they first appeared in the season 3 episode I Am Unicorn, during Colfer's character Kurt Hummel's performance of "I'm the Greatest Star", from the musical Funny Girl.^[33]

Filmography[link]

Colfer at ComicCon, July 2010

Discography[link]

• Glee: The Music, Volume 1 (2009)
• Glee: The Music, Volume 2 (2009)
• Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna (2010)
• Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers (2010)
• Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals (2010)
• Glee: The Music, The Rocky Horror Glee Show (2010)
• Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album (2010)
• Glee: The Music, Volume 4 (2010)
• Glee: The Music, Volume 5 (2011)
• Glee: The Music Presents the Warblers (2011)
• Glee: The Music, Volume 6 (2011)
• Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2011)
• Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2 (2011)
• Glee: The Music, Volume 7 (2011)
• Glee: The Music, The Graduation Album (2012)

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Kugel, Allison (April 26, 2010). "Glee Star Chris Colfer Shares His Best Behind-the-Scenes Moments and Surreal Adventures". PR.com. http://www.pr.com/article/1151. 

External links[link]

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