Biography
Jonathan Drew Groff (born March 26, 1985) is an American actor and singer. He began his career on Broadway, rising to prominence for his portrayal of Melchior Gabor in the original production of Spring Awakening (2006-2008), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, becoming one of the youngest nominees for the award, at age 21. He returned to Broadway to portray King George III in the original production of Hamilton (2015), for which he earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. For the original cast album of Hamilton, he, along with the other singers on the recording, won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
Branching out into film and television roles, Groff made his film debut in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock (2009), and became a recurring guest star in the Fox musical-comedy series Glee (2009–2015) as Jesse St. James. He voiced the roles of Kristoff and Sven in Disney's Frozen franchise, including Frozen (2013) and Frozen II (2019), two of the highest-grossing films of all time, as well as the short films Frozen Fever (2015) and Olaf's Frozen Adventure (2017). Groff starred as Patrick Murray in the HBO comedy-drama series Looking (2014–2015), the network's first TV series centering around the lives of gay men, as well as its subsequent television film, Looking: The Movie (2016), and portrayed FBI Special Agent Holden Ford in the Netflix period crime drama Mindhunter (2017–2019), produced by David Fincher, for which he won a Satellite Award. In 2021, he received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Anthology Series or Movie for his performance in the Disney+ live stage recording of Hamilton.
Groff starred in the fourth installment of the Matrix franchise—The Matrix Resurrections (2021)—as Smith, replacing Hugo Weaving from the original trilogy. In 2022, he executive produced the HBO documentary film Spring Awakening: Those You've Known, which saw the 15 year reunion of the original cast of the musical, and voiced the lead role of Ollie in the Netflix series Lost Ollie. He stars in M. Night Shyamalan's apocalyptic horror film Knock at the Cabin (2023) and will return to Broadway in fall 2023 in the first revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.
Filmography
all 56
Movies 34
TV Shows 22
self 17
Voice 3
Writer 1
Doctor Who (2024)
A Nice Indian Boy (2024)
Once Upon a Studio (2023)
Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Lost Ollie (2022)
Spring Awakening: Those You've Known (2022)
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
And Just Like That… (2021)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
Invincible (2021)
An Evening With Audra McDonald (2020)
Once Upon a Snowman (2020)
Hamilton (2020)
Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II (2020)
Some Good News (2020)
Visible: Out On Television (2020)
Frozen II (2019)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
Blindspotting (2018)
Sutton Foster in Concert (2018)
Olaf's Frozen Adventure (2017)
MINDHUNTER (2017)
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (2017)
LEGO Frozen Northern Lights (2017)
LEGO Frozen Northern Lights (2016)
Hamilton's America (2016)
Looking: The Movie (2016)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
Frozen Fever (2015)
American Sniper (2014)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic (2014)
The Normal Heart (2014)
The Making of Frozen (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
Showing Up (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Russian Broadway Shut Down (2014)
Looking (2014)
Frozen (2013)
C.O.G. (2013)
Boss (2011)
Glee Encore (2011)
The Conspirator (2011)
Twelve Thirty (2011)
Taking Woodstock (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Glee (2009)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
Broadway: The Next Generation
Molly and the Moon
Frozen 3
A New Brain
Pretty/Handsome
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GenderMale
Birthday1985-03-26 (39 years old)
Birth NameJonathan Drew Groff
Birth PlaceLancaster, United States of America
RelativesJames Wolpert
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesNew York City · Ronks, United States of America
Also Known AsJonathan Drew Groff , ジョナサン・グロフ, 조나단 그로프
AwardsTheatre World Award
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