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Aliases: Jonathan Drew Groff , ジョナサン・グロフ , 조나단 그로프 , 強納森・葛洛夫

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

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Movie Involvements: 21

TV Involvements: 11


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Stars in the House
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Stars in the House

(2020) Self
Doctor Who
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7

Doctor Who

(2024) Rogue
INVINCIBLE
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9

INVINCIBLE

(2021) Rick Sheridan (voice)
Frozen
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7

Frozen

(2013) Kristoff (voice)
Lost Ollie
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8

Lost Ollie

(2022) Ollie (voice)
MINDHUNTER
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8

MINDHUNTER

(2017) Holden Ford
Doctor Who: Unleashed
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7

Doctor Who: Unleashed

(2024) Self
Ultraman: Rising
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8

Ultraman: Rising

(2024) Bunny (Ollie) (voice)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Bunny (Ollie) (voice)
Rogue
Self
Jay Kurundkar
2023 Kristoff (voice)
Eric
2022 Ollie (voice)
Self - Melchior
2021 Smith
Dr. Paul David
Host
Rick Sheridan (voice)
2020 N/A
Kristoff (voice) (archive sound)
King George
Self
Self
Self
Self
2019 Kristoff / Sven / Reindeers (voice)
N/A
2018 Man by Fence (uncredited)
2017 N/A
Kristoff (voice)
Holden Ford
Self
Kristoff (voice)
2016 Self
Patrick Murray
2015 Self
Self
Kristoff (voice)
2014 Young Vet-Mads
Self
Himself
Craig
Self
Self
Self - Guest
Self
Self
Self - Musical Guest
N/A
Patrick Murray
2013 Kristoff (voice)
David
2011 Ian Todd
N/A
Jesse St. James
Louis Weichmann
Jeff
2009 Michael Lang
Self - Guest
Jesse St. James
1988 Self - Guest
Brian
Kristoff (voice)
Gordon Schwinn
Patrick Fitzpayne
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Executive Producer
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Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1993 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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