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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Even before 24-year-old Darren Criss swooped onto Glee this season as Blaine, the charming lead vocalist of rival all-boy band the Warblers, the kid had a cultish following. Granted, they were all musical-theater nerds. Criss's previous claim to fame? Playing Harry Potter in a musical parody that went viral on YouTube. \"I never imagined it would be viewed by teenagers in Australia,\" he says. That kind of stepped-in-it success seems to follow Criss, who\u2014in one short season\u2014swiftly toppled Glee's record for fastest-selling debut singles with his cover of \"Teenage Dream\" and snagged the Warblers their own album. (Burn, Lea!) And yet all this stuff is the work equivalent of a hot-stone massage for the actor. \"It's all very relaxing,\" he says. \"You get a trailer on-set. You get treated really well.\" To keep it that way, Criss has devised a way to get around incognito: \"I don't shave when I'm not working.\" Not exactly Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, but it'll do."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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