Jonathan Groff
Born
March 26, 1985 (40 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Frozen III
Kristoff (voice)
2027
Merrily We Roll Along
Franklin Shephard
2025
A Nice Indian Boy
Jay Kurundkar
2025
Ultraman: Rising
Bunny (Ollie) (voice)
2024
Once Upon a Studio
Kristoff (voice)
2023
Knock at the Cabin
Eric
2023
Spring Awakening: Those You've Known
Self - Melchior
2022
The Matrix Resurrections
Smith
2021
An Evening With Audra McDonald
2020
Once Upon a Snowman
Kristoff (voice) (archive sound)
2020
Hamilton
King George
2020
Frozen II
Kristoff / Sven / Reindeers (voice)
2019
Blindspotting
Man by Fence (uncredited)
2018
Sutton Foster in Concert
Himself
2018
Broadway: The Next Generation
Self
2017
Olaf's Frozen Adventure
Kristoff (voice)
2017
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
Self
2017
LEGO Frozen Northern Lights
Kristoff (voice)
2017
Hamilton's America
Self
2016
Looking: The Movie
Patrick Murray
2016
A New Brain
Gordon Schwinn
2016
Frozen Fever
Kristoff (voice)
2015
American Sniper
Young Vet-Mads
2014
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
Self
2014
The Normal Heart
Craig
2014
The Making of Frozen
Self
2014
Showing Up
Self
2014
Frozen
Kristoff (voice)
2013
C.O.G.
David
2013
Glee Encore
Jesse St. James
2011
The Conspirator
Louis Weichmann
2011
Twelve Thirty
Jeff
2011
Taking Woodstock
Michael Lang
2009
Molly and the Moon
Brian
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Rogue
2025
Doctor Who at the Proms
Rogue (archive footage)
2024
Doctor Who
Rogue · (2 episodes)
2024
Doctor Who: Unleashed
Self · (1 episode)
2024
Doctor Who
Rogue (archive footage) (uncredited) · (1 episode)
2024
Lost Ollie
Ollie (voice) · (4 episodes)
2022
And Just Like That…
Dr. Paul David · (1 episode)
2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self - Host
2021
INVINCIBLE
Rick Sheridan (voice) · (1 episode)
2021
Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II
Self · (6 episodes)
2020
Some Good News
Self · (1 episode)
2020
Stars in the House
Self · (2 episodes)
2020
Visible: Out on Television
Self · (5 episodes)
2020
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self · (2 episodes)
2019
Lie Detector
Self · (1 episode)
2018
MINDHUNTER
Holden Ford · (19 episodes)
2017
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (4 episodes)
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (2 episodes)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (2 episodes)
2014
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Looking
Patrick Murray · (18 episodes)
2014
Spring Awakening
Melchior Gabor
2006
Frozen IV
Kristoff / Sven / (voice)
IMDb on the Scene
Self · (1 episode)
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Musical Guest · (1 episode)
2014
Boss
Ian Todd · (10 episodes)
2011
The Good Wife
Jimmy Fellner · (1 episode)
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (2 episodes)
2009
Glee
Jesse St. James · (14 episodes)
2009
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1988
Pretty/Handsome
Patrick Fitzpayne · (1 episode)
The Simpsons
Actor Playing Bart (voice) · (1 episode)
1989