Age: 41
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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
Dr. Justin Acker
for Dr. Justin Acker in Manhattan Children's
Suggested by makenziekate
Inspired by my struggle with vocal health issues as an autistic musical theatre performer. This Hulu medical drama series focuses on a young pediatric ENT Dr. Justin Acker who works at Manhattan Children's Hospital. He is known as the hottest doctor at the hospital. Dr. Acker has dated lots of people, but they were only with him for his looks and his money. They were your classic gold-diggers. Even though he loves being a doctor, his wish is to settle down and get married to someone who will love him for not just his looks and his money, but who he is as a person. He finds his one true love is the widowed mother of a fifteen-year-old autistic high school performer who has lost her voice. I was inspired after watching Jonathan as Dr. Paul David on And Just Like That. I wish Carrie had said yes to the facelift because I wanted to see him in the operating room. I also wish we had a scene where we could see him doing the Botox injections on Anthony. Jonathan makes such a cute doctor and me and a bunch of other fans on Instagram were wanting to see him play a pediatric doctor. I of course will be playing Arielle because I'm autistic.
