Jonathan Groff

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

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.

### Film

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|class="unsortable"|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_|rowspan="3"|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

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|class="unsortable"|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

|class="unsortable" width="4%"|Year|width="34%"|Title|width="19%"|Role|width="43%"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2008|rowspan="2"|_The Battery's Down_|rowspan="2"|Himself|Web series • Episode: "The Big Apple"|||
|2009|Web series • Episode: "The Party's Over"|||||||
|2015|_One True Pairing_ (Season 1)|rowspan="2"|Dennis|Web series • Episode: "What's 'Your' Nickname"||||
|2016|_One True Pairing_ (Season 2)|Web series • 4 episodes||||||
|2017|_36 Questions_|Jase|Podcast Musical • Released through Two-Up podcast channel|||||

### Video games

|class="unsortable" width="4%"|Year|width="34%"|Title|width="19%"|Voice role|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2019|_Kingdom Hearts III_|Kristoff||||

### Stage

|class="unsortable" width="8%"|Year|width="33%"|Title|width="20%"|Role|width="39%"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2002|_Honk!_|Ugly||||||
|2004|_Bat Boy: The Musical_|Bat Boy||||||
|rowspan="2"|2005|_Fame_|Nick Piazza|North Shore Music Theatre||||
|_In My Life_|Understudy • Swing|Music Box Theatre • Broadway • Broadway debut||||||
|2006|rowspan="2"|_Spring Awakening_|rowspan="2"|Melchior Gabor|Atlantic Theater Company • Off-Broadway|||
|2006–08|Eugene O'Neill Theatre • Broadway|||||||
|2007|rowspan="2"|_Hair_|rowspan="2"|Claude Hooper Bukowski|rowspan="2"|Delacorte Theater||
|rowspan="2"|2008|||||||
|_Prayer for My Enemy_|Billy Noone|Playwrights Horizons • Off-Broadway||||||
|rowspan="2"|2009|__|Gray Korankyi • Walter Rieman|• Off-Broadway||||
|__|Dionysus|Delacorte Theater||||||
|2010–11|_Deathtrap_|Clifford Anderson|Noël Coward Theatre • West End London, UK|||||
|2011|__|Danny Larsen|MCC Theater • Off-Broadway|||||
|2012|rowspan="2"|_Red_|rowspan="2"|Ken|Mark Taper Forum|||
|rowspan="2"|2013|L.A. Theatre Works||||||
|__|Frederic|Delacorte Theater||||||
|rowspan="3"|2015|_How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying_|J. Pierrepont Finch|Royal Festival Hall • West End London, UK||||
|_Hamilton_|King George III|• Off-Broadway||||||
|__|Gordon Michael Schwinn|New York City Center • Lincoln Center||||||
|2015–16|_Hamilton_|King George III|Richard Rodgers Theatre • Broadway|||||
|rowspan="2"|2017|_Hair_|Claude Hooper Bukowski|Jazz at Lincoln Center • Lincoln Center||||
|_Sondheim on Sondheim_|Performer|Hollywood Bowl||||||
|2018|__|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)_

- Other recordings

- 2007: "Now" from _Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan_
- 2015: "Prayer" from _A View of the River: 7 Songs by Will Van Dyke & Jeff Talbott_
- 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
- 2013: _Red_ by John Logan
- 2015: _Frozen Fever_ by VA
- 2019: _The Killer Across the Table_ by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

- Featured singles

|rowspan="2"|Year|rowspan="2"|Title|colspan="5"|Peak chart positions|rowspan="2"|Album||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="8"|2010|align="left"|"Highway to Hell"|—|—|88|—|89|rowspan="4"|_Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One_|
|align="left"|"Run Joey Run"|61|64|45|12|27|||||
|align="left"|"Another One Bites the Dust"|79|—|53|41|101|||||
|align="left"|"Bohemian Rhapsody"|—|—|—|—|—|||||
|align="left"|"Hello"|35|79|37|31|35|rowspan="2"|_Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers_|||
|align="left"|"Total Eclipse of the Heart"|16|28|17|3|9|||||
|align="left"|"Like a Virgin"|87|99|83|47|58|rowspan="2"|_Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna_|||
|align="left"|"Like a Prayer"|27|28|27|2|16|||||
|2011|align="left"|"Rolling in the Deep"|29|—|—|—|49|_Glee: The Music, Volume 6_|||
|2015|align="left"|"You'll Be Back"|—|—|—|—|—|_Hamilton_|||
|colspan="8" width="100%"|"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in the region||||||||||
**Footnotes**
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## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Jonathan Groff
- **image**: Jonathan Groff at Outfest 2013 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Groff in 2013
- **birth name**: Jonathan Drew Groff
- **birth place**: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- **years active**: 2002–present
- **signature**: Jonathan Groff signature.svg