Jonathan Groff

Jonathan Drew Groff born March 26 1985 is an American actor and singer Known for his performances on stage and screen he has received several accolades including a Tony Award and a Grammy Award as well as a  Primetime Emmy Award nomination He was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2026 He began his career on Broadway making his debut in the musical In My Life 2005 He later received Tony Award nominations for playing Melchior Gabor in the original production of the rock musical Spring Awakening 2006 King George III in the original production of the historical musical Hamilton 2015 and Bobby Darin in the original production of the jukebox musical Just in Time 2025 In 2024 he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Franklin Shepard in the musical revival of Stephen Sondheims Merrily We Roll Along He also starred as Seymour Krelborn in the OffBroadway musical revival of Little Shop of Horrors in 2019 On television he began his career as a recurring guest star as Jesse St James on the Fox musicalcomedy series Glee 200915 He starred as Patrick Murray in the HBO comedydrama series Looking 201415 the networks first series centring on the lives of gay men as well as its subsequent television film Looking The Movie 2016 He portrayed FBI Special Agent Holden Ford in the Netflix period crime drama Mindhunter 201719 He was Primetime Emmy Awardnominated for his role in the Disney live stage recording of Hamilton 2020 Groff made his film debut playing Michael Lang in Ang Lees Taking Woodstock 2009 He has since played Louis J Weichmann in The Conspirator 2010 Smith in The Matrix Resurrections 2021 and a father held hostage in Knock at the Cabin 2023 He also voiced both Kristoff and Sven in the Disney animated Frozen franchise including Frozen 2013 and Frozen II 2019 In 2022 he executiveproduced the HBO documentary film Spring Awakening Those Youve Known which saw the 15year reunion of the original cast of the musical Description above from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Groff licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia