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Jonathan Drew Groff (born March 26, 1985) is an American actor and singer. At the age of 22, Groff received a Tony Award nomination for his performance as Melchior Gabor in the Broadway rock musical ''Spring Awakening''. He also portrayed the role of Claude in the critically acclaimed revival of ''Hair''. Regularly seen on the off-Broadway stage, Groff has won an Obie Award for starring in two of Craig Lucas's plays, ''Prayer for My Enemy'' and ''The Singing Forest''. He made his West End debut in the revival of the play ''Deathtrap'' opposite Simon Russell Beale. In 2013, Groff starred in the first-ever screen adaptation of author David Sedaris's work, ''C.O.G.'', in which he portrayed a character based on Sedaris himself, and as the voice of Kristoff in ''Frozen''. On television, Groff portrayed the recurring role of Jesse St. James in the Fox series ''Glee'', and from 2014 to 2015, he starred as Patrick Murray in the HBO series ''Looking''. Groff originated the role of King George III in the new Broadway musical ''Hamilton'' at the Richard Rodgers Theatre but is currently on leave from the show. He will return December 1, 2015. ==Early life== Groff was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the son of Julie, a physical education teacher, and Jim Groff, a harness horse trainer and driver. He has one older brother, David, and is a first cousin of singer James Wolpert,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview with James Wolpert: L-S grad growing confident on 'The Voice' )〕 a semifinalist on the fifth season of ''The Voice''. Groff was raised in Ronks, Pennsylvania. His father's family is Mennonite; of his upbringing, he has said: "My mother’s side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values—sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school. But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn’t want to be."〔(Hoof Beats Magazine, July 2007: "Profile Jim and Jonathan Groff )〕 He graduated from Conestoga Valley High School in 2003 and intended to attend Carnegie Mellon University, but deferred his admission for a year when he was cast as Rolf in a non-Equity national tour of ''The Sound of Music''. After the tour, Groff realized he would "never be able to pay off these college loans" and decided to move to New York instead. While still living in Lancaster, Groff performed at the Fulton Opera House (in ''The Sound of Music'', ''Ragtime'', ''Evita'', ''My Fair Lady'', ''Peter Pan'', ''The Pirates of Penzance'', and ''Rags'') and the Ephrata Performing Arts Center (as Edgar in ''Bat Boy'' and Ugly in ''Honk!''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Groff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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