Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller; February 14, 1948) is an American magician, illusionist, writer, actor, painter, and film director. He is best known as half of the comedy magic duo Penn & Teller, along with Penn Jillette. Teller usually does not speak during performances.
He is an atheist, debunker, skeptic, and a fellow of the Cato Institute (a free market libertarian think tank that also lists Jillette as a fellow), an organization which is featured prominently in the duo's Showtime series Bullshit! Teller legally changed his name from "Raymond Joseph Teller" to the mononym "Teller".
Teller was born Raymond Joseph Teller[3][4] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[5] the son of Irene B. (née Derrickson) and Israel Max "Joseph" Teller (1913–2004).[6][7] His father, who was of Russian-Jewish descent, was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Philadelphia. His mother was from a Delaware farming family; the two met as painters attending art school at Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.[8][9] His mother was Methodist, and Teller was raised as "a sort of half-assed Methodist".[10] He graduated from Central High School in 1965. In 1969, Teller graduated from Amherst College with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics.
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