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    Jonathan Groff

    1985-03-26 (39 years old) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

    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.

    Movies

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    Frozen III
    0 %|Oct 14, 2027
    Animation, Family, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
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    A Nice Indian Boy
    0 %|Apr 4, 2025
    Romance, Comedy
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    Ultraman: Rising
    83 %|Jun 14, 2024
    Animation, Science Fiction, Family, Action
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    Once Upon a Studio
    83.21 %|Sep 24, 2023
    Animation, Family, Fantasy, Comedy
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    Knock at the Cabin
    62.830000000000005 %|Feb 1, 2023
    Thriller, Mystery, Horror
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    Spring Awakening: Those You've Known
    75 %|May 3, 2022
    Documentary, Music
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    The Matrix Resurrections
    63.98 %|Dec 16, 2021
    Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
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    Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
    0 %|Aug 14, 2021
    Documentary
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    Once Upon a Snowman
    69.18 %|Oct 23, 2020
    Animation, Family, Comedy, Fantasy
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    Hamilton
    81.79 %|Jul 3, 2020
    History, Drama
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    Frozen II
    73 %|Nov 20, 2019
    Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
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    Blindspotting
    73 %|Jul 20, 2018
    Comedy, Crime, Drama
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    Sutton Foster in Concert
    0 %|Apr 20, 2018
    Music
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    Broadway: The Next Generation
    100 %|Nov 16, 2017
    TV Movie, Documentary
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    Olaf's Frozen Adventure
    64.53999999999999 %|Oct 27, 2017
    Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
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    The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
    66.05000000000001 %|Mar 11, 2017
    Documentary
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    LEGO Frozen Northern Lights
    66 %|Jan 5, 2017
    Animation, Family
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    Hamilton's America
    68 %|Oct 1, 2016
    Documentary
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    Looking: The Movie
    71.27 %|Jul 24, 2016
    Drama, Romance, TV Movie
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    Frozen Fever
    68 %|Mar 9, 2015
    Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy
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    American Sniper
    74 %|Dec 25, 2014
    War, Action
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    The Normal Heart
    78 %|May 25, 2014
    Drama
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    The Making of Frozen
    72 %|Mar 18, 2014
    Documentary
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    Showing Up
    92 %|Feb 25, 2014
    Documentary
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    Frozen
    72.46000000000001 %|Nov 20, 2013
    Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy
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    C.O.G.
    55 %|Sep 20, 2013
    Comedy, Drama
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    Glee Encore
    80 %|Apr 19, 2011
    Music
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    The Conspirator
    65 %|Apr 15, 2011
    Crime, Drama, History
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    Twelve Thirty
    56 %|Jan 14, 2011
    Drama, Romance
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    Taking Woodstock
    62 %|Aug 26, 2009
    Music, Comedy, Drama
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    A New Brain
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Music
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    Merrily We Roll Along
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Comedy, Music
    actor
    Molly and the Moon
    0 %|Invalid Date
    Music, Drama, Fantasy
    actor
    Spring Awakening
    0 %|Jun 15, 2006

    Series

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    Doctor Who
    66.17 %|May 11, 2024
    Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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    Doctor Who: Unleashed
    80 %|May 11, 2024
    Documentary
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    Lost Ollie
    78 %|Aug 24, 2022
    Animation, Family, Drama
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    And Just Like That…
    74 %|Dec 9, 2021
    Comedy, Drama
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    INVINCIBLE
    86 %|Mar 25, 2021
    Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
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    Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II
    69 %|Jun 26, 2020
    Documentary
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    Some Good News
    63.08 %|Mar 29, 2020
    News, Talk, Comedy
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    Stars in the House
    0 %|Mar 16, 2020
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    Visible: Out on Television
    71 %|Feb 14, 2020
    Documentary
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    The Kelly Clarkson Show
    62 %|Sep 9, 2019
    Talk
    actor
    Lie Detector
    0 %|Mar 1, 2018
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    MINDHUNTER
    80.79 %|Oct 13, 2017
    Drama, Crime
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    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
    66 %|Sep 8, 2015
    Comedy, Talk
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    IMDb on the Scene
    0 %|Jul 10, 2015
    Talk
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    Late Night with Seth Meyers
    55 %|Feb 25, 2014
    Talk, Comedy
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    Late Night with Seth Meyers
    55 %|Feb 25, 2014
    Talk, Comedy
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    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
    58 %|Feb 17, 2014
    Comedy, Talk
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    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
    58 %|Feb 17, 2014
    Comedy, Talk
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    Looking
    73.36 %|Jan 19, 2014
    Comedy, Drama
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    Boss
    72 %|Oct 21, 2011
    Drama, War & Politics, Crime
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    Boss
    72 %|Oct 21, 2011
    Drama, War & Politics, Crime
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    The Good Wife
    76 %|Sep 22, 2009
    Drama
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    Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
    50 %|Jul 16, 2009
    Talk, Comedy
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    Glee
    67 %|May 19, 2009
    Comedy, Drama
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    LIVE with Kelly and Mark
    52 %|Sep 5, 1988
    Talk
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    Pretty/Handsome
    30 %|Invalid Date
    Drama
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    The Simpsons
    80.16999999999999 %|Dec 17, 1989
    Family, Animation, Comedy