Who is Penn from Penn and Teller? American magician performing on Royal Variety Performance 2024

PENN Jillette is one-half of the magic duo Penn & Teller, who launched their enactment to large occurrence successful the 1980s.

As a performer connected signifier and screen, Jillette has made a sanction for himself worldwide arsenic a palmy magician with a vocation that spans implicit 40 years.

Who is Penn Jillette?

Penn Fraser Jillette is an American magician, actor, musician, inventor, TV presenter, and author.

He was calved connected March 5, 1955, successful Greenfield, Massachusetts.

He is champion known for his enactment with chap magician Teller as fractional of the team Penn & Teller.

The duo has been featured successful a fig of signifier and TV shows, specified as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Penn & Teller: Bulls***!

As an author, Jillette has published 8 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 nonrecreational dancer Kym Johnson.

He was the archetypal personage to beryllium eliminated. 

He was besides 1 of the contestants on The Celebrity Apprentice season 5 successful February 2012.

Other TV appearances include:

• Celebrity Jeopardy!
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• 25 Words oregon 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 joined and does helium person children?

Penn is joined to Emily Jillette.

Like her husband, Emily works successful the amusement industry.

According to her IMDB profile, she began moving connected movie sets successful the aboriginal 1990s.

Emily was listed arsenic a accumulation adjunct connected the movies Rookie of the Year and Striking Distance.

The brace met successful the aboriginal 2000s aft 1 of his shows and past tied the knot astir 2 years aft dating.

According to nationalist records, the mates got joined connected November 23, 2004.

Their daughter, Moxie CrimeFighter, was calved successful 2005, portion their lad Zolten Penn arrived the pursuing year. 

How did Penn conscionable Teller?

Penn and Teller were introduced to each different by Wier Chrisemer successful the 1970s.

They performed their archetypal amusement unneurotic astatine the Minnesota Renaissance Festival connected August 19, 1975.

Speaking successful an interrogation with CBS Local's DJ Sixsmith astir their occurrence arsenic a duo, Jillette said: "When I archetypal met him, Teller was already moving silently.

"I deliberation helium was truly funny successful seeing if helium could prevarication to radical without speaking. By the clip I met Teller, helium was a bully magician. I was a juggler. I wasn't a comic carnal comedian and past I decided I wanted to bash much talking.

"We're from middle-class backgrounds. My begetter was a jailhouse guard, Teller's dada was a commercialized artist.

"We came to New York connected a whim successful 1984. Producers took a changeable connected america and we did not expect to beryllium successful."