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Criss Angel
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American illusionist (born 1967)
OverviewAI-generated
Criss Angel was born on December 19, 1967. He began his professional work period in 1994. His official website is crissangel.com. He has been recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
Angel is associated with the work "Mindfreak," which is listed as a top work in Open Library records. Crossref data indicates a total of five works. On Last.fm, his content is tagged with industrial, industrial rock, Gothic, metal, and mindfreak. The platform reports 25,103 listeners and a playcount of 709,750.
His social media presence includes 905,663 followers. Additionally, he is referenced by 200 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Firecrawl, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos , ( 1967-12-19 ) December 19, 1967 (age 58) , Hempstead, New York , US
- Occupations
- Magician, entertainer, musician, TV personality
- Years active
- 1994–present
- Spouse
- JoAnn Winkhart ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2002 – 2005 )
- Partner
- Shaunyl Benson (2012–present)
- Website
- crissangel .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christopher
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- East Meadow
- Occupation
- television director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- yoga
- Record label
- MNRK Music Group
- Official website
- www.crissangel.com
- Image
- Headshot of Criss Angel.png
- Residence
- Las Vegas
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- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos
- Commons category
- Criss Angel
- date of birth
- 1967-12-19
- birth name
- Χριστόφορος Νικόλαος Σαραντάκος
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
- social media followers
- 153000
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Encyclopedic overview
Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos (born December 19, 1967), known professionally as Criss Angel, is an American magician, illusionist and musician.
Angel began his career in New York City, before moving his base of operations to the Las Vegas Valley. He is known for starring in the hit television show Criss Angel Mindfreak and the stage show Criss Angel MINDFREAK LIVE! (previously Criss Angel Believe) at the Luxor casino in Las Vegas. Following his departure from The Luxor after a decade-long run, Angel opened the new MINDFREAK show in the Criss Angel Theater at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. He also produced and starred in the TV series Criss Angel's Magic with the Stars on CW, Criss Angel BeLIEve on Spike TV, a one-hour special Trick'd on A&E, and the reality competition show Phenomenon on NBC.
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