Jonathan Groff

Jonathan Drew Groff (born March 26, 1985) is an American actor and singer born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Jonathan Groff
Groff in 2013
Born	Jonathan Drew Groff (1985-03-26) March 26, 1985 (age 40) Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupations	Actor singer
Years active	2002–present
Signature

He is known for playing King George III in the original Broadway production of Hamilton, Holden Ford in Netflix's Mindhunter, Kristoff in Frozen and Frozen II, and Jesse St. James in Glee. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards for Spring Awakening and Hamilton. He won a Grammy award as part of the cast recording album for Hamilton and won a Satellite Award in 2017 for Mindhunter.

He is openly gay.^[1]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Taking Woodstock	Michael Lang
2010	Twelve Thirty	Jeff
2010	The Conspirator	Louis Weichmann
2013	C.O.G.	David
2013	Frozen	Kristoff (voice)
2014	Russian Broadway Shut Down	Nikolai the Athlete	Short film
2014	Sophie	Ben	Short film
2014	American Sniper	Young Vet Mads
2015	Frozen Fever	Kristoff (voice)	Short film
2017	Olaf's Frozen Adventure		Short film
2019	Frozen II
2020	Hamilton	King George III	Filmed recording of 2016 Broadway musical
2021	The Matrix 4		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	One Life to Live	Henry Mackler	11 episodes
2008	Pretty/Handsome	Patrick Fitzpayne	Pilot
2010–15	Glee	Jesse St. James	Recurring role; 15 episodes
2012	The Good Wife	Jimmy Fellner	Episode: "Live from Damascus"
2012	Boss	Ian Todd	Main cast; 10 episodes
2014–15	Looking	Patrick Murray	Lead role; 18 episodes
2014	The Normal Heart	Craig Donner	Television film
2016	Looking: The Movie	Patrick Murray	Television film
2016	LEGO Frozen Northern Lights	Kristoff (voice)	Television special
2017–2019	Mindhunter	Holden Ford	Lead role
2018	The Simpsons	Actor Playing Bart (voice)	Episode: "Bart's Not Dead"

Internet

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	The Battery's Down	Himself	Web series • Episode: "The Big Apple"
2009			Web series • Episode: "The Party's Over"
2015	One True Pairing (Season 1)	Dennis	Web series • Episode: "What's 'Your' Nickname"
2016	One True Pairing (Season 2)		Web series • 4 episodes
2017	36 Questions[2]	Jase	Podcast Musical • Released through Two-Up podcast channel[3]

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2019	Kingdom Hearts III	Kristoff[4]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Honk!	Ugly	The Ephrata Performing Arts Center
2004	Bat Boy: The Musical	Bat Boy	The Ephrata Performing Arts Center
2005	Fame	Nick Piazza	North Shore Music Theatre
	In My Life	Understudy • Swing	Music Box Theatre • Broadway • Broadway debut
2006	Spring Awakening	Melchior Gabor	Atlantic Theater Company • Off-Broadway
2006–08			Eugene O'Neill Theatre • Broadway
2007	Hair	Claude Hooper Bukowski	Delacorte Theater
2008
	Prayer for My Enemy	Billy Noone	Playwrights Horizons • Off-Broadway
2009	The Singing Forest	Gray Korankyi • Walter Rieman	The Public Theater • Off-Broadway
	The Bacchae	Dionysus	Delacorte Theater
2010–11	Deathtrap	Clifford Anderson	Noël Coward Theatre • West End London, UK
2011	The Submission	Danny Larsen	MCC Theater • Off-Broadway
2012	Red	Ken	Mark Taper Forum
2013			L.A. Theatre Works
	The Pirates of Penzance	Frederic	Delacorte Theater
2015	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	J. Pierrepont Finch	Royal Festival Hall • West End London, UK
	Hamilton	King George III	The Public Theater • Off-Broadway
	A New Brain	Gordon Michael Schwinn	New York City Center • Lincoln Center
2015–16	Hamilton	King George III	Richard Rodgers Theatre • Broadway
2017	Hair	Claude Hooper Bukowski	Jazz at Lincoln Center • Lincoln Center
	Sondheim on Sondheim	Performer	Hollywood Bowl
2018	The Bobby Darin Story	Bobby Darin	92nd Street Y • Off-Broadway
2019–20	Little Shop of Horrors	Seymour Krelborn	Westside Theatre • Off-Broadway

Discography

Cast recordings

• 2006: Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• 2010: Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna
• 2010: Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers
• 2010: Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals
• 2011: Glee: The Music, Volume 6
• 2013: Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• 2015: Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• 2016: A New Brain (2015 New York Cast Recording)
• 2017: 36 Questions: Songs from Act 1 – EP
• 2017: 36 Questions: Songs from Act 2 – EP
• 2017: 36 Questions: Songs from Act 3 – EP
• 2017: Olaf's Frozen Adventure
• 2019: Frozen II (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• 2019: Little Shop of Horrors (The New Off-Broadway Cast Album)^[5]

Other recordings

• 2007: "Now" from Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan^[6]
• 2015: "Prayer" from A View of the River: 7 Songs by Will Van Dyke & Jeff Talbott^[7]
• 2015: "Making Today a Perfect Day" from Frozen Fever
• 2019: "I'll Be Home for Christmas" by Lea Michele

Audiobooks

• 2008: Broadway Nights by Seth Rudetsky^[8]
• 2013: Red by John Logan^[9]
• 2015: Frozen Fever by VA^[10]
• 2019: The Killer Across the Table by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker^[11]

Featured singles

Year	Title	Peak chart positions					Album
		US[12]	AUS[13]	CAN[14]	IRE[15]	UK[16]
2010	"Highway to Hell"	—	—	88	—	89	Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One
	"Run Joey Run"	61	64	45	12	27
	"Another One Bites the Dust"	79	—	53	41	101
	"Bohemian Rhapsody"	—	—	—	—	—
	"Hello"	35	79	37	31	35	Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers
	"Total Eclipse of the Heart"	16	28	17	3	9
	"Like a Virgin"	87	99	83	47	58	Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna
	"Like a Prayer"	27	28	27	2	16
2011	"Rolling in the Deep"	29	—	—	—	49	Glee: The Music, Volume 6
2015	"You'll Be Back"	—[A]	—	—	—	—	Hamilton
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in the region

Footnotes

1. "You'll Be Back" did not enter the Hot 100, but peaked at number 21 on the Digital Songs chart.^[17]