In January 2009, he reprised the role of Gaudio in the musical's Broadway production.
His last performance with the tour was on December 6, 2008, in Toronto. He played Bob Gaudio in the First National Tour of Jersey Boys. He followed this with some regional performances. In 2002, Rannells made his Broadway debut when he assumed the role of Link Larkin in the Broadway production of Hairspray. 2002–2012: Broadway debut and The Book of Mormon Iden Payne Awards in September 2002, which honor outstanding achievements in Austin theater. For his turn as Hedwig at the Zachary Scott Theater Center in Austin, Texas, in 2002, he won best actor in a musical at the B. īefore winning his first Broadway role, Rannells had parts in a number of regional theater productions, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Miss Saigon, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. When asked about his experience in 2014, he jokingly said that he would have rather starred in a porn film or snuff film instead and that he only took the job for the pay. One of his first theater roles was as the character James in the touring production of Pokémon Live! from September 2000 to August 2001.
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Rannells worked with the New York City-based production company 4Kids Entertainment from 2001 to 2004 and did voice acting for several English dubs of anime series such as Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!, in addition to serving as voice director for the dubs of Kirby: Right Back at Ya! and Sonic X. He continued to work in the medium for a number of years while pursuing theater. He was subsequently cast in a number of their television productions in main voice roles. In the mid-1990s, he found work with the animation production company DIC Entertainment through an Omaha casting call.
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Career 1994–2002: Early career and voice acting Īctive in community theater, Rannells got his start as a professional actor as a teenager through voice acting. Rannells moved to New York City in 1997 after high school, studying theater at Marymount Manhattan College for two years before he started auditioning full-time and began landing roles. He did voice-over work and commercials, including a 1996 Grease spoof with Amy Adams. He did community theater with fellow Omahan and Creighton Prep alumnus Conor Oberst.
Rannells was 11 when he acted in his first play. Īs a child, he took classes at the Emmy Gifford Children's Theater and performed at the Omaha Community Playhouse and the Firehouse Dinner Theatre and the Dundee Dinner Theatre. His family lived in the Hanscom Park neighborhood in Omaha. Rannells attended Our Lady of Lourdes grade school in Omaha, and then Creighton Preparatory School, an all-boys Roman Catholic school in Omaha. He is the fourth of five siblings, with three sisters and an older brother. Rannells was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to Charlotte and Ronald Rannells.
In 2019, he began starring in Black Monday on Showtime. In the 2010s, he began working as a screen actor most notably, he starred in the 2012 NBC sitcom The New Normal and played the recurring role of Elijah in HBO's Girls (2012–2017). Other Broadway credits include Hairspray (2005), Jersey Boys (2009), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2010), Hamilton (2015), and The Boys in the Band (2018).
He received his second Tony nomination in 2017 for his performance as Whizzer in the 2016 Broadway revival of Falsettos. Rannells is best known for originating the role of Elder Price in the 2011 Broadway musical The Book of Mormon for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater AlbumĪndrew Scott Rannells (born August 23, 1978) is an American film, stage, television and voice actor.