Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
J. Kim Murphy editorThough he co-starred in “Avenue 5” in the spring, Zach Woods had already been an HBO mainstay on “Silicon Valley.” There, Woods played Donald “Jared“ Dunn, the uneasy Pied Piper COO with an intense attachment to the company’s founder Richard (Thomas Middleditch) and a horrifying — albeit comically vague — history.
In the fourth episode of the final season, Jared finally met his birth parents: a wealthy couple who gave him away to ease travel logistics.
Faced with their obvious, nonchalant cruelty, Jared still instinctively blamed himself for their abandonment, thrusting Woods into the spotlight of the ensemble comedy.Woods: In the first couple episodes [of the final season Jared] quits.
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