Random Things About Chris
Trivia/Facts
- He auditioned for Glee with "Mr.Cellophane."
- Ironically, the character he portrays is one of the oldest kids in the Glee Club. Chris until Pot' O Gold was the youngest cast member in Glee, even younger than Lauren Potter, who portrays Becky. Jenna, Darren and Kevin all portray characters who are about a year younger are all older than him.
- He embarrassed himself in front of Lady Gaga by bowing, getting uncomfortably close to her and saying, "Nobody has talent but you; none of the new artists," and then not letting go of her hand for "a good fifteen minutes." He then ran out because of embarrassment.
- He was 17 when he auditioned for Glee.
- Before becoming an actor, Chris worked mornings before school in the cafeteria as a cookie scooper and summers as a clerk at a dry cleaners.
- Ryan Murphy named Kurt after the character in The Sound of Music, who Chris portrayed in high school, and Hummel after the Hummel figurines, because he looks "like a porcelain doll."
- His sister suffers from epilepsy.
- The scar on the left side of his neck is from surgery in 1998.
- He lost over 40 pounds in 2007 thanks to "horrible methods called diet and exercise."
- He practices using Sai Swords.
- He assistant directed a theatrical benefit for Valley Children's Hospital when he was 14.
- He holds many speech and debate champion titles.
- During high school, he was involved with speech & debate, drama, the F.F.A., was president of the writers' club, editor of the school literary magazine, and captain of Destination Imagination.
- Since starting Glee, he grew about 4 inches (from 5'6" to around 5'10") in the span of one year.
- He can't tan. He only freckles and burns.
- He is a huge fan/in love with Kristin Chenowethand actually cried during her performance of Maybe This Time on Glee, but then ended up using it as a joke.
- He says that he was a "social llama" in high school, saying that he was "on the farm, and people point and gawk at him because he has funky hair."
- He is a Harry Potter fan, and a fan of Starkid's A Very Potter Musical, a musical Harry Potter parody which costar Darren Criss wrote songs for and starred in.
- He has an on going love affair with Diet Coke. He tweeted "I don't have a problem...." along with a picture of about 15 cans of diet coke at his home.
- When Chris was 14 years old, he owned sea monkeys. He forgot to feed these sea monkeys, but they remained alive for about 7 months, because they were "eating each other, and living off their waste."
- He once accidentally peed in one of the restrooms on the television show Monk's sound stage.
- Chris got revenge on a bully when they were partners for a class assignment, the goal of which was to find a location using a GPS device. One partner would punch in a coordinate, and then the other partner would have to walk to it. Chris hacked into the GPS and programmed it to a location where a mountain of cow manure lay. "I will never forget him climbing up the mountain of cow crap."
- Chris's hometown, Clovis, California, has a "sort of western theme" and are widely known for their rodeo. Chris was very anti-cowboy, but his parents would dress him up in a "ridiculous hat and boots and I would sit there and I would sweat and I would be miserable."
- When he was young, his parents wanted him to go "mutton busting" (sheep riding) but Chris refused. (..".and so help me God, if you make me get on that sheep, my teenage rebellion period will be so hard, it will make the French Revolution look like a picnic.")
- He loves Prada eyewear.
- His favorite store is Target.
- Says he has started picking up some of Kurt's traits, like crossing his legs when he sits and standing with one hip out.
- He has problems with sleepwalking, even buying things online while asleep. He says he "does all sorts of fun things while he's unconscious." Occasionally screaming.
- He thinks that he looks like Pinocchio.
- He once played Chip in a high school production of Beauty and the Beast.
- He studies ninjutsu, the "art of nin...j-ja.... esque."
- To warm up his vocal chords Chris starts singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina ' and then he sings "And I'm Telling You."
- Tore some leg tissue during the Glee Tour dancing in ten inch heels during the Bad Romance number and jumping on trampolines during the Jump number.
- Two of his favorite roles he played were Ralphie in a community theatre production of A Christmas Story and Mr. Lovett from 'Shirley Todd', a spoof of Sweeney Todd he wrote and directed himself.
- He loves Wicked (the first Broadway show he ever saw and is really obsessed with) and RENT.
- He started auditioning for mainstream roles during his freshman year of high school, but it wasn't until before his first semester of college in Fresno did he audition for Glee.
- He was a big fan of Ryan Murphy before auditioning for Glee.
- During a cast Q&A he said he'd probably be part of Ravenclaw house in Hogwarts.
- While filming the episode Laryngitis, where Kurt made out with Brittany, he was told that he was too good of a kisser and needed to tone it down for the episode.
- He says that his 1st TV crush was the Pink Power Ranger.
- He said on an interview with Jay Leno and Kristin Chenoweth, that she was one of his last girl crushes.
- Has had constant 'loving tackle wars' with co-star Lea Michele (Rachel Berry) saying that it started during the pilot and has been their secret inside joke ever since and nobody else from the cast knows what it means.
- He claims if he had a sing-off with Lea Michele, she would win hands down.
- He sustained a bit of neck injury while he was trying to do a backflip when they were filming Mattress.
- He wrote a screenplay for a possible new Disney TV show.
- Co-star Lea Michele calls herself and Chris "Elphaba and Glinda," like the characters from Wicked. Chris however, prefers to be called "Guylinda."
- He made a cameo on the May 14, 2011 episode of Saturday Night Live during one of their recurring "What Up With That" skits.
- He was in college for three weeks before joining the cast of Glee.
- He took 3 years studying French.
- Has an extremely diverse vocal range: his lowest known note is an A2 and his highest is an Bb5.
- He's at least 5'10."
- He was kissed by co-star Darren Criss at the last stop of the Glee European Tour in Dublin, Ireland.
- His first word was 'Oprah.'
- He knows the ASL alphabet.
- One of his three dogs is named Bob Marley, he is paranoid and falls asleep constantly. He also enjoys drinking wine.
- He is a very close friend with Ashley Fink as she calls him her 'Baby Daddy' and/or 'Her Man.'
- Both he and Kevin McHale got dressed in the girl's dressing room during the Glee Live performance because "the boys smelled!"
- He would love to do Wicked with Lea Michele, as long as he would be "Guylinda" and also Sweeney Todd with her. Lea even said that she and Chris would have to fight for the role of Mrs. Lovett as Chris did a gender-inverted role in High School.
- If the cast would design their own Born This Way T-shirt Chris' would say "High-Pitched" due to his voice getting really high when he's excited/nervous or just talking in general.
- When asked which person would each cast member would collaborate with, alive or dead, Chris said he would pick either Lady Gaga or Adele.
- He was the second member of the glee cast to reach a million followers on Twitter, the first being Lea Michele.
- While filming Mattress, he was accidentally kicked by Dianna Agron in the groin while she was rolling on a mattress.
- He didn't know who Marc Jacobs was until they shot the Pilot.
- He thinks of himself as 'a huge nerd.'
- He has admitted that he buys stuff online while he's sleeping. He has said that he has bought the entire series of the Carol Burnett show, a portrait of Marie Antoinette, and a life-size poster of Lady Gaga.
- Dianna Agron wrote his paragraph when he won the Time's 100 Influential people. He got an entire page to himself.
- He was home-schooled at the end of Middle School to escape bullying.
- His castmates consider him and Cory Monteith the funniest members of the cast. Cory is considered clownish and Chris considers himself as sarcastic and judgmental.
- He admires Helena Bonham Carter and screamed when he first met her.
- He has self-diagnosed dyslexia.
- He wears 'Rain' by Marc Jacobs as his cologne even though it's for women.
- Once on Halloween he dressed up as Los Angeles and won the first place at a competition.
- He said that I Have Nothing is the most difficult song he has ever sung in Glee yet.
- He said that drinking Tequila makes him think he was seventh in line of the British crown.
- The Glee Cast voted him as the Biggest Brainiac since he tends to spout random trivia like European Castle History.
- He had a "Disco Ninja Pirate" themed birthday party at a Roller Rink.
- At his 22nd birthday "Our Llama is 22" and "'HappyBirthdayChrisColfer" was trending topic on twitter.
- He is the only countertenor in the cast.
- He wrote three books: Struck by Lightning (2012), The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell (2012), andThe Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns (2013).
- He stated on Twitter that he was a fan of One Direction.
- He stated on Twitter that he is Team Carlisle (Twilight) along with Ashley.
- Along with two friends he stole things from the teachers' lounge in High School.
- Is related to the American Outlaw, Jesse James (He is his great great grandmother's cousin), so he's told.
- Chris, along with the young Glee cast stars reportedly make an average of 45 thousand dollars per episode. Source
- Personally believes his biggest pet peeve is name dropping.
- If he could have any superpower he would want telekinesis.
- He doesn't think he can live without diet soda,air conditioning and colour.
- He would cast himself as Meryl streep.
- He invented a sport named "Ninja Darts." It involves throwing ninja stars (shuriken) at a dartboard.
- He thinks Chord is Glee's class clown.
- He thinks Harry has the best body.
- He thinks Kevin is the best dressed.
- He thinks Vanessa is the kookiest.
- He thinks Damian is the sweetest.
- He thinks Mark is the most adventurous.
- He thought Cory was the biggest nerd.
- He thinks Matthew is the biggest flirt.
- He thinks Amber has the best laugh, everytime she laughs he has to laugh.
- Chris and Darren consider themselves two big nerds
- Harry thinks that Chris has a really contagious laugh.
- He adopted a cat named Brian Colfer.
- He keeps Brian in his trailer while filming.
- He was called a "beautiful man" by Grant Gustin.
- He hurt his arm and broke his toe when they filmed Kurt being put in the dumpster in Pilot.
- Is very good at pole dancing, according to Adam Lambert.
- Is implied to be a close friend of Adam.
- He, Darren, Kevin, Lea, Adam and Chord are good friends with Demi.
- Is one of Kevin McHale's best friends, and when Kevin got his first tattoo, Chris came with him, Jenna and Lea and was talking him through it, and asked him what his parents will think of it. Their friendship is also often reflected on camera during season 1.
- He is very flattered by Kurt fanfictions.
- He is very close to Jane Lynch, and claims that she knows every single one of his secrets. They also love the show Orange is the New Black
- His mother is his biggest fan.
- His grandmother and sister don't care about his fame and success.When he and his sister were at Jamba Juice, people wanted a picture with him, and she asked "Why?".
- His father is a janitor and his mother is a nurse.
- Was very close to Cory before he passed away, going as far as not tweeting for a whole week and post-poning his Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns signing tour until the first week of August to assist in taking care of Lea, thus missing the chance to accept Glee's Teen Choice Award. He also instagrammed a photo of the two of them, saying "Love and miss you, buddy," and using his Google + to further pay tribute to Cory the night of The Quarterback episode
- On Hollywood Game Night, hosted by Jane, he won 6,000 dollars, which he donated to the Make a Wish Foundation of America
- He, along with rest of the cast, is obessed with the Real Housewives shows and gave Ryan Murphy the idea to select NeNe Leakes to play Rozz.
- He loves the show Downtown Abbey.
- While shooting the We Got the Beat number, he got hurt while exotic dancing and was rushed to a hospital that was "open to all walks of life".
- Ignorance and calltimes turns him off.
- His favorite curse word is "sh*t"
- He stated that if heaven exists, he thinks God would tell him, "Don't listen to them; you get to come in too." Ryan agreed he cannot top that.