Criss Angel is a magician, illusionist, stunt performer and musician. He is widely known for his ability in levitation tricks thats he performs in a variety of ways. He actually started his career with a rock band called Angeldust, but later realized he was better at being an illusionist.

  Criss got his big break when he started his hit show "MindFreak." Everyone was stunned to see his mindblowing tricks performed on television like no other magician has ever done. Criss can levitate 10 to 15 ft. in the air and do some of the most amazing tricks ever seen. Many people compare Criss Angel to David Blaine because of their street style of magic and often try to get the two to have a magic showdown.

Criss truely loves magic and everything about it. He has been performing magic ever since he was a little kid. Criss really cares for his family and they support him 100%. Angel is writing a book entitled Mindfreak: Secret Revelations from the Master of Surreality. He is also often konwn for teaching his audience (the people watching t.v.) how to do some cool tricks.

Many viewers say that Angel is only a "video illusionist," using camera special effects, forced viewing angles and assistants acting as amazed spectators for the TV audience. Many magicians who perform magic without camera tricks resent these methods while others simply see them as modern tools of magic on television. Criss Angel himself claims he does not use camera trickery, and had made an attempt to rid these rumors during his second season by introducing a "spectator's point of view camera", a handheld video camera given to a what he says is a random person in the audience to shoot the action in any way he or she wants. However, the camera has seemingly fallen out of favor as the second season continued, only showing up very sporadically.

Despite all the speculations, Criss still is a good magician who knows how to bewilder his audience with the illusions of magic.

David Copperfield is a world-renowned American magician and illusionist best known for his combination of spectacular illusions and storytelling. His most famous illusions include making the walking through the Great Wall of China, making the Statue of Liberty disapear and even flying over the Grand Canyon.

   He began practicing magic at the age of 12, and became the youngest person ever admitted to the Society of American Magicians. By age 16, he was teaching a course in magic at New York University. At age 18, he enrolled at Fordham University, and was cast in the lead role of the Chicago-based musical The Magic Man three weeks into his freshman year, adopting his new stage name "David Copperfield". At age 19, he was headlining at the Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.

David has also had more television specials than any other magicaian and most of them became huge successes. His illusions are matched by no other and he does all his tricks to the fullest.

David's biggest trick was probably the vanashing of the statue of liberty that he performed on television in 1983. This was the craziest trick to date because how could something so large actually vanish? He continues to do tricks even to this day.

Everybody knows Harry houdini and all one has to do is say magic and his name will come to mind. Houdini was the first magician who bacame known for his great illusions and wild stunts. Houdini's way of performing magic will live on forever.

   Houdini first focused on card acts and called himself as the "King of Cards" and "King of Handcuffs." One of his most notable non-escape stage illusions was performed in London's hippodrome: he vanished a full-grown elephant (with its trainer) from a stage, beneath which was a swimming pool.

He soon began experimenting with escape acts, however. Harry Houdini's "big break" came in 1899, when he met the showman Martin Beck. Impressed by Houdini's handcuffs act, Beck advised him to concentrate on escape acts and booked him. Within months, he was performing all over the country. In 1900, Houdini traveled to Europe to perform and by the time he returned in 1904, he had become a sensation.

   From 1904 and throughout the 1910s, Houdini performed with great success in the United States. He would free himself from handcuffs, chains, ropes and straitjackets, often while hanging from a rope or suspended in water, sometimes in plain sight of the audience. In 1913, he introduced perhaps his most famous act, the Chinese Water Torture Cell, in which he was suspended upside-down in a locked glass and steel cabinet full to overflowing with water. He held his breath for over 3 minutes.

  Houdini will never be forgotten because of how he changed magic. Houdini could do anything he put his mind to and that most of inspired everyone. Still to this day people consider Houdini to be the greatest magician / illusionist in magic history.

 Penn & Teller are an illusionist and comedy duo from the United States. Penn is a storytelle and Teller does not speak while performing, although his voice can be heard as the narrator throughout their performance. They specialize in gory tricks, exposures of fakers and of some magic tricks, and clever pranks. They call themselves “a couple of eccentric guys who have learned how to do a few cool things.”

Actually the duo started as a trio but and use to be more silly than they are now. The third person of course is no longer in the group but some of his tricks are still continued. Their own tricks include Teller hanging upside-down over a bed of spikes in a straightjacket, Teller drowning in a huge container of water, Teller being run over by an 18-wheel tractor, Teller swinging over bear-traps on a trapeze, and knives going through Penn's hands. Many of their effects rely heavily on shock appeal that is even funny.

Often, the pair will claim to reveal a secret of how a magic trick is done, but those tricks are usually invented by the duo for the sole purpose of exposing them.Penn and Teller perform their own adaptation of the famous bullet catch illusion. Each simultaneously fires a gun at the other, through small panes of glass, and then "catches" the other's bullets in his mouth.The two guys also perform wild card tricks that are quite amazing. One thing is for sure and thats that these two really know what their doing.

  The two also have made it big in television by appearing in talk shows and their own shows as well. Lately the two have slplit up and gone their own seperate ways. Penn has debuted in the new show that first aired December 16, 2006 called identity.