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Sam Wills was born on 28 August, 1978 in Timaru, New Zealand, is a New Zealand prop comic, busker, clown, and mime residing in Las Vegas. Discover Sam Wills's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 45 years old?

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Age 45 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 28 August, 1978
Birthday 28 August
Birthplace Timaru, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1978

Sam Wills (born 28 August 1978) is a New Zealand prop comic, busker, clown, and mime artist residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

He performs under the name The Boy With Tape On His Face and, more recently, as Tape Face.

He was also half of the two-person act Spitroast and sometimes performed under his own name, Sam Wills.

He has been featured in the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, the World Buskers Festival, and was a finalist on Season 11 of America's Got Talent.

Wills began his performing career in Timaru at the age of thirteen while he trained as a clown.

He uses a diverse range of performance styles and skills.

He holds a diploma in New Circus from Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's Circus School where he has taught juggling for two years.

2001

His interest in the phenomenon of traditional circus freak shows and influences such as the Jim Rose Circus and the Tokyo Shock Boys led to experiments with shock comedy, earning him his first Pulp Comedy appearance, the Best New Face award for the 2001 season, and he was called ‘Prince of Cringe’ from Truth and TV Extra magazine.

Until 2001, Wills was active in the Christchurch entertainment scene, appearing at balls, private functions and corporate events; running weekly comedy nights and appearing on local television.

2002

In 2002, he moved to Auckland to become a resident comedian at the casino in SkyCity Auckland, where he had a weekly show, the NCB Comedy Hour, blending circus and vaudeville styles.

2003

He was the support act for David Strassman's 2003 tour of New Zealand.

He has also performed at private functions for the former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and the King of Tonga George Tupou V.

2004

He also performed at the World Buskers' Festival in 2004, 2005 and 2008.

He was a regular performer on Pulp Comedy, during its three seasons on TV2.

He performed on the red carpet for the World Premier of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in Wellington.

2005

Wills performed as the MC of the Late Club at the Auckland Festival in 2005 (AK05) and for First Night at the Aotea Centre.

2007

Wills met his future wife, English burlesque performer Felicity Redman (also known as Lili La Scala), in 2007.

2008

In 2008, Wills took his show The Boy With Tape On His Face to the Melbourne Comedy Festival, where it received critical acclaim.

After Melbourne and later in 2008, he moved to London, appearing as a modern mime and wearing the traditional striped shirt.

2009

They had a "symbolic wedding" on 9 January 2009, in Christchurch as a start to that year's World Buskers Festival in the same spot on the banks of the Avon River where they got engaged a year earlier.

This was followed by a legal wedding later that year in England.

2011

In the UK, he made an ITV appearance on Comedy Rocks hosted by Jason Manford (2011), and also appeared at the first BBC Comedy Prom at London's Royal Albert Hall on 13 August 2011 (broadcast on BBC 2 on 27 August 2011).

On 5 December 2011 he performed at the 83rd annual Royal Variety Performance, alongside Tim Minchin and others.

2013

Their son was born in January 2013.

Wills rarely gives interviews to maintain the impression of not speaking, which was created by taping his mouth for performances.

His media strategy is modelled on that of Kate Moss, of whom he has said "She doesn't do any public speaking at all. That makes her even cooler. She just does her job. That is the approach we are taking with this. We want the show to just sell itself."

2016

In the Season 11 premiere of America's Got Talent (AGT) on 31 May 2016, shortening his stage name to Tape Face, Wills auditioned and got through to the next round.

In Week 8 of AGT, during the Judges' cuts round, Wills successfully auditioned through to the live shows.

In Week 1 of the AGT quarterfinals, he advanced to the semifinals.

He advanced to the finals on 31 August 2016 by getting the most audience votes in the Dunkin' save, but was later eliminated on 14 September when he did not reach a top five spot.

Maria Karvouni of Forbes magazine wrote that Tape Face revives silent film acting, using his facial expressions and body movements to captivate his audience: "His simplicity creates a complexity which results in a lot of laughter."

He appeared in a show with America's Got Talent Season 11 winner Grace VanderWaal and runner-up The Clairvoyants in a three-night concert series at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, in October 2016.

Wills made an appearance in YouTube Rewind 2016.

When Sam Wills is on tour, his doppelganger T2 performs in his place at House of Tape Theater in Harrah's Las Vegas.

2019

He also appeared in 2019 on Week 4 of America's Got Talent: Champions, on Monday, 28 January, where he placed in the top 4 of that night's acts.

2020

In 2020, Wills appeared on the 15th season of La France a un incroyable talent, the "Battle of the Judges."

He was a member of team Sugar Sammy.

In the first round of the competition, Tape Face competed in a duel against pole acrobat Rémi Martin from team Marianne James.

The audience and judges Éric Antoine and Hélène Ségara all voted for Rémi Martin to move on to the next round, eliminating Wills from the competition.