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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
Pierre Gringoire
for Pierre Gringoire in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (2013 Live Action Remake)
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The film is mostly based on the 1996 Disney animated film, scrapped ideas from the 1996 Disney animated film, the 1999-2002 Berlin Disney stage play by James Lapine and elements from the Victor Hugo novel. The film is rated PG-13 and is much darker in tone. The death of Quasimodo's mother is far more graphic. Claude Frollo's backstory of being a priest before he became a judge and has a younger brother named Jehan. The Gargoyles humor is not over the top and are confirmed to be in Quasimodo's imagination. Brutish Guard and Oafish Guard are portrayed as serious and threatening. New songs, a happy ending and a sad ending. The happy and sad endings are based on ending that were scrapped from the 1996 Disney animated film. In both endings Esmeralda kills Judge Claude Frollo, in order to save Quasimodo. In the happy ending, in a fit of rage Quasimodo brutally beats up Frollo after discovering that he lied to him about his mother and Esmeralda kills Judge Frollo and sucessfully saves Quasimodo when she kicks Claude Frollo off the cathedral. In the sad ending, Frollo successfully stabs Quasimodo with his dagger, Esmeralda wakes up gets into a struggle with Frollo, Esmeralda pushes Frollo outside of the cathedral to the ground. In a fit of rage Esmeralda kills Judge Claude Frollo, when she breaks his arm and kicks off the cathedral. Esmeralda attempts to heal Quasimodo and dies his arms and a funeral is held for Quasimodo as he becomes a martyr.
