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Date of Birth
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17-May-1985
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Place of Birth
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Salt Lake City
(Utah, United States of America, Salt Lake County, Area codes 801 and 385, Area code 801, Area code 385)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Hough, Derek
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Profession
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Dancer, Guitarist, Actor, Musician, Music Video Director, Choreographer, Singer-songwriter
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Derek Hough is an American dancer and choreographer. He is known best for his work, since September 2007, on the U.S. television dance-competition series Dancing with the Stars, on which he has won a record five seasons. He also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography in 2013 for three routines that he choreographed on the show.
Hough has also acted in several stage productions such as in the 2006 original production of Footloose: The Musical at the Novelo Theatre in London's West End. He also starred in Make Your Move, a 2013 Romeo and Juliet-inspired South Korean-American independent dance film.
He holds a world champion title in Under 21 Latin American Dance.
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