Jonathan Groff

Jonathan Groff
Groff in 2011
Born	Jonathan Drew Groff (1985-03-26) March 26, 1985 (age 39) Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupations	Actor singer
Years active	2002–present
Known for	Spring Awakening Glee Hamilton Frozen Doctor Who
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Jonathan Drew Groff (born March 26, 1985)^[1] is an American actor and singer. He began his career on Broadway, rising to prominence and earning a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Melchior Gabor in the original production of Spring Awakening (2006–08). He returned to Broadway to portray King George III in the original production of Hamilton (2015), receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. In 2019, he starred in the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors, in the role of Seymour Krelborn. He won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for the starring role of Franklin Shepard in the first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (2023).

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 (2009–15) as Jesse St. James. He voiced the roles of Kristoff and Sven in Disney's Frozen franchise, including Frozen (2013) and Frozen II (2019). Groff starred as Patrick Murray in the HBO comedy-drama series Looking (2014–15), the network's first series centering on 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 (2017–19), 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. 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.