| Paris Themmen | |
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Themmen at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, October 1, 2010. |
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| Born | June 25, 1959 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | actor |
Paris Themmen (born June 25, 1959) is an American actor who played Mike Teevee in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, when he was 11 years old. 40 years later, on 4 May 2011 he appeared on the ITV Breakfast programme, Daybreak alongside the four other people who played the golden ticket finder lucky winners from the film. Around the same time, he performed on Broadway in The Rothschilds and Mame, the latter with Ann Miller.
As an adult, Themmen has dabbled in various careers, including commercial casting, film production, Disney Imagineering, retail, real estate, and finance.
His rare acting appearances as an adult include "Virtuoso", a 2000, sixth season episode of the TV series Star Trek: Voyager, and as a contestant billed as a "former child star" in two 2008 episodes of the American game show Duel.[1][2]
An avid traveler, he has backpacked through fifty-nine countries on six continents, exploring such far flung places as Amazonia, Borneo, the Sahara and Mt. Everest base camp.
He currently resides in New York City with his fiancee', Nikki Grillos.