Jonathan Groff

Jonathan Groff

Birthdate
March 26, 1985 (39 years old)
Place of Birth
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Acting

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Birthdate
March 26, 1985 (39 years old)
Place of Birth
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Acting

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.

Jonathan Groff's LGBTQ+ Titles

Knock at the Cabin
Knock at the Cabin
Eric
The Normal Heart
The Normal Heart
Craig
Looking: The Movie
Looking: The Movie
Patrick Murray
C.O.G.
C.O.G.
David
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Self

Acting (65)

Pretty/Handsome as Patrick Fitzpayne (1 episode)
Molly and the Moon as Brian
A New Brain as Gordon Schwinn
Merrily We Roll Along as Franklin Shephard
2027
Frozen III as Kristoff (voice)
2024
Ultraman: Rising as Bunny (Ollie) (voice)
2024
Doctor Who: Unleashed as Self (1 episode)
2024
Doctor Who as Rogue (1 episode)
2024
A Nice Indian Boy as Jay Kurundkar
2023
Once Upon a Studio as Kristoff (voice)
2023
2022
Lost Ollie as Ollie (voice) (4 episodes)
2022
Spring Awakening: Those You've Known as Self - Melchior
2021
The Matrix Resurrections as Smith
2021
And Just Like That… as Dr. Paul David (1 episode)
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self - Host
2021
INVINCIBLE as Rick Sheridan (voice) (1 episode)
2020
An Evening With Audra McDonald
2020
Once Upon a Snowman as Kristoff (voice) (archive sound)
2020
Hamilton as King George
2020
Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II as Self (6 episodes)
2020
Some Good News as Self (1 episode)
2020
Stars in the House as Self (2 episodes)
2020
Visible: Out on Television as Self (5 episodes)
2019
Frozen II as Kristoff / Sven / Reindeers (voice)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show (1 episode)
2018
Blindspotting as Man by Fence (uncredited)
2018
Sutton Foster in Concert as Himself
2018
Lie Detector as Self (1 episode)
2017
Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
2017
Olaf's Frozen Adventure as Kristoff (voice)
2017
MINDHUNTER as Holden Ford (19 episodes)
2017
LEGO Frozen Northern Lights as Kristoff (voice)
2016
Hamilton's America as Self
2016
Looking: The Movie as Patrick Murray
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self (2 episodes)
2015
IMDb on the Scene as Self (1 episode)
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self (1 episode)
2015
Frozen Fever as Kristoff (voice)
2014
American Sniper as Young Vet-Mads
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self (1 episode)
2014
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic as Self
2014
The Normal Heart as Craig
2014
The Making of Frozen as Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (1 episode)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2014
Showing Up as Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self (2 episodes)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Musical Guest (1 episode)
2014
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Looking as Patrick Murray (18 episodes)
2013
Frozen as Kristoff (voice)
2013
C.O.G. as David
2011
Boss
2011
Boss as Ian Todd (10 episodes)
2011
Glee Encore as Jesse St. James
2011
The Conspirator as Louis Weichmann
2011
Twelve Thirty as Jeff
2009
The Good Wife as Jimmy Fellner (1 episode)
2009
Taking Woodstock as Michael Lang
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
2009
Glee as Jesse St. James (14 episodes)
1989
The Simpsons as Actor Playing Bart (voice) (1 episode)
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest (1 episode)

Production (1)

2022
Spring Awakening: Those You've Known • Executive Producer
• Executive Producer

Writing (1)

1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien • Writer (2724 episodes)
• Writer (2724 episodes)