Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Groff
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
67
Gender
Male
Birthday
1985-03-26 (40 years old)
Place of Birth
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Acting

2027

Frozen III as Kristoff (voice)

2025

A Nice Indian Boy as Jay Kurundkar

2024

Doctor Who as Rogue

2024

Ultraman: Rising as Bunny (Ollie) (voice)

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms as Rogue (archive footage)

2023

Knock at the Cabin as Eric

2023

Once Upon a Studio as Kristoff (voice)

2022

Lost Ollie as Ollie (voice)

2022

Spring Awakening: Those You've Known as Self - Melchior

2021

INVINCIBLE as Rick Sheridan (voice)

2021

And Just Like That… as Dr. Paul David

2020

Stars in the House as Self

2020

Hamilton as King George

2020

Some Good News as Self

2020

Once Upon a Snowman as Kristoff (voice) (archive sound)

2020

An Evening With Audra McDonald as Not available

2019

The Kelly Clarkson Show as Not available

2019

Frozen II as Kristoff / Sven / Reindeers (voice)

2018

Lie Detector as Self

2018

Blindspotting as Man by Fence (uncredited)

2018

Sutton Foster in Concert as Himself

2017

MINDHUNTER as Holden Ford

2017

LEGO Frozen Northern Lights as Kristoff (voice)

2017

Olaf's Frozen Adventure as Kristoff (voice)

2016

Hamilton's America as Self

2016

Looking: The Movie as Patrick Murray

2016

A New Brain as Gordon Schwinn

2015

Frozen Fever as Kristoff (voice)

2015

IMDb on the Scene as Self

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Musical Guest

2014

American Sniper as Young Vet-Mads

2014

Looking as Patrick Murray

2014

Showing Up as Self

2014

The Normal Heart as Craig

2014

Russian Broadway Shut Down as Not available

2013

C.O.G. as David

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Merrily We Roll Along as Franklin Shephard

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Pretty/Handsome as Patrick Fitzpayne

2013

Frozen as Kristoff (voice)

2011

Boss as Not available

2011

Boss as Ian Todd

2011

The Conspirator as Louis Weichmann

2011

Twelve Thirty as Jeff

2011

Glee Encore as Jesse St. James

2009

The Good Wife as Jimmy Fellner

2009

Glee as Jesse St. James

2009

Taking Woodstock as Michael Lang

2006

Spring Awakening as Melchior Gabor

1989

The Simpsons as Actor Playing Bart (voice)

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest

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Molly and the Moon as Brian