Jonathan Groff

Jonathan was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania but raised in Ronks, Pennsylvania. He was born to Jim Groff, a horse trainer, and Julie, a phys-ed teacher. He has an elder brother named David. He is the first cousin of James Wolpert, a singer. He says that his childhood was both strict and free as his parents taught him to be well-mannered but never forced him to participate in things he wasn’t interested in. He completed high school from Conestoga Valley High School and later joined Carnegie Mellon University but did not follow through with it as he was cast in the national tour of The Sound of Music. He never continued college and moved to NYC instead. While he lived in Lancaster, he participated in at the Fulton Opera House and the Ephrata Performing Arts Center.

In 2005, he earned the Actors’ Equity Association card owing to his performance at the North Shore Music Theatre in the musical Fame. He entered Broadway in the same year with the musical called In My Life. In the summer of 2006, he bagged a role in a rock musical called Spring Awakening. He was then cast for the same role in its Broadway production which he played from 2006-2008. He left it in May 2008 along with Glee-star Lea Michele Lea was born in Bronx, NY as Lea Michele Sarfati. >> Read More... . For his role in the musical, he was nominated for a Tony Award (Best Leading Actor in a Musical) and also for a Drama Desk Award. He was also seen multiple times on the soap opera by ABC called One Life to Live.

In 2008, the Shakespeare in the Park production hired him to play Claude in Hair, which he did for more than a month. He worked for them again in 2009 in The Bacchae. In the same year, he did a movie by Ang Lee Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-origin filmmaker who has pr >> Read More... called Taking Woodstock in which he played the role of Michael Lang. He gained much more fame when he guest-starred in the musical drama Glee. He joined theater again by debuting in West End with his role in Deathtrap along with other plays later. He lent his voice to the character of Kristoff in the famous Disney movie Frozen in 2013 which was a huge success. Its commercial success and the fact that it was the highest-grossing movie of 2013 made Groff redo it again in 2015 in a short sequel called Frozen Fever Click to look into! >> Read More... . After the HBO series ‘’Looking’’ failed after its second season, he joined another production called The Normal Heart. He appeared in many plays on stage after that, including the musical called Hamilton in which he replaced Brian d’Arcy James. He won a Grammy Award for the role. He was nominated for a Tony Award for the same role. He is expected to star in the Netflix series called Mindhunter and also in ‘’Behavioral Science Unit’’. Groff came out as gay in 2009 during National Equity March.

He was involved with Zachary Quinto Zachary “John” Quinto, or ZQ to his friends and fa >> Read More... from 2010-2013. He is listed among one of the ‘’100 most compelling LGBT people’’ and was honored as a Grand Marshal at NYC Pride Parade in 2014. He was awarded the Point Horizon Award by the Point Foundation for his role in voicing LGBT community rights. He was also honored with the Bayard Rustin Award as a sign of acceptance towards LGBT.