Chris wood (actor)
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Chris Wood (footballer, born 1991)
New Zealand footballer (born 1991)
Christopher Grant Wood (born 7 December 1991) is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and captains the New Zealand national team.
Wood started his senior career with Cambridge, Waikato and Hamilton Wanderers before moving to England to play for Premier League club West Bromwich Albion. He spent his time on loan to six different clubs before joining Leicester City in 2013. After a loan spell with Ipswich Town in 2015, he signed for Championship club Leeds United where he became the top scorer in the 2016–17 season, with 27 goals. Wood then joined Burnley for a club record fee, and became a consistent goalscorer for them in the Premier League, notching up 49 goals in 144 matches over four and a half seasons. In January 2022 he joined Newcastle United for £25 million (€29 million), making him the most expensive Oceania player of all time.[5]
Wood has been capped 80 times for the New Zealand national team and scored 41 goals, making
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Broadway BUZZ
Chris Wood is an American actor and writer. He is best known for his portrayal of Mon-El in the hit CW series Supergirl. Prior to this, Wood led the CW's limited event series Containment which earned him a spot on Variety’s 2015 “10 TV Actors to Watch” list. Wood first came to notoriety for his villainous turn as Kai Parker on the hit CW series The Vampire Diaries. His additional credits include PBS' Mercy Street, the CW's The Carrie Diaries and HBO’s Emmy Award-winning series Girls. Wood is also the voice of He-Man/Prince Adam in the Netflix animated series Masters of the Universe: Revelation.
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Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood was born in Knowsley, near Liverpool on 7 April 1901, the son of Mrs Clare and Dr Lucius Wood, a GP. At fourteen, Wood began to draw during recuperation from septicaemia, and went on to study architecture briefly at Liverpool University (1919-20). In London in 1920, the French collector Alphonse Kahn invited him to Paris, where Wood studied drawing at the Académie Julian in 1921. He entered effortlessly into fashionable artistic circles, meeting Augustus John and the Chilean diplomat Antonio de Gandarillas, with whom he began to live. As well as providing financial support, Gandarillas introduced Wood to Picasso, Georges Auric and Jean Cocteau, and to the use of opium. Although his painting was regarded as charmingly untutored, he learnt from these acquaintances, especially adopting the elegant line of Cocteau's drawings.
By 1926 Wood was in a position to make designs for Romeo and Juliet for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. When these designs were abandoned at the last moment, he concentrated on England, becoming a m
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