
Jonathan Groff
Biography
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.
Acting (37 movies)

Taking Woodstock
2009

Frozen III
2027

The Conspirator
2011

Glee Encore
2011

A Nice Indian Boy
2025

Twelve Thirty
2011

Knock at the Cabin
2023

Frozen
2013

The Normal Heart
2014

Spring Awakening: Those You've Known
2022

C.O.G.
2013

Once Upon a Studio
2023

Showing Up
2014

The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
2014

Frozen Fever
2015

Sutton Foster: Live from Lincoln Center
2018

Broadway: The Next Generation
2017

American Sniper
2014

Looking: The Movie
2016

Ultraman: Rising
2024

Merrily We Roll Along
2025

LEGO Frozen Northern Lights
2017

Olaf's Frozen Adventure
2017

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
2017

Blindspotting
2018

The Matrix Resurrections
2021

Frozen II
2019

Hamilton
2025

Hamilton's America
2016

Once Upon a Snowman
2020

An Evening With Audra McDonald
2020

Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021

Spring Awakening
2006

Doctor Who at the Proms
2024

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025

Animals of Arendelle: Lost and Found | Frozen Stories
2025
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Spring Awakening: Those You've Known | 2022 | Executive Producer |