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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.
Story told in flashback narration by the last surviving JSA member Liberty Belle: In early 1941, in the midst of WW2, the American intelligence receives message about Germany acquiring a powerful artifact called Spear of Destiny, which would lead them to gain upper hand in the war. United States, as they're unable to enter the war without Congress's support asks them to make a task team of a few ' mystery men '(Dr Midnite, Hourman, Jay Garrick,Liberty Belle, Wildcat,Sandman , Jonny Thunder) to be sent to stop the Nazi advisor Vandal Savage from using the artifact to defeat the world and start a dark reign. The team meets for the first time in England where they attack a Nazi super fleet's offensive on Allies ships, but fail to save a merchant ship and it's passengers. They're criticized as freaks and questioned about their loyalties, and put off from the mission. But after knowing about a meta-human's efforts to win a war in 1917 to save innocent lives and teaming up in a hotel room in London, they set out on their own to battle Savage's troops in eastern Europe. Many of the members perish in the battle, but ultimately win the battle and kills Vandal Savage. The rest of the team go back to America to live ordinary lives, but inspiring a new generation of superheroes to strive with humanity for justice and greatness.
