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He moved to New York City and earned his ‘Actors’ Equity Association’ card soon after completing high school.

Jonathan Drew Groff was born on March 26, 1985, in Lancaster Pennsylvania, US, to Julie and Jim Groff

He was raised in the farming community of Ronks, Pennsylvania, with his elder brother, David.

Jonathan was interested in performing arts and appeared in several musicals at the ‘Fulton Opera House’ during his school days.

In 2009, Jonathan revealed he was gay.

He suffered from melanoma, a type of skin cancer, for which he was successfully treated when he was in his early 20s.

He Was Accepted to Carnegie Mellon University, but Didn’t Attend

Jonathan Groff grew up among Amish communities in Ronks, Pennsylvania, spending his teenage years driving around his Amish neighbors, who were not allowed to use electricity or drive cars

Jonathan Groff joined his middle school and high school drama departments, and it was there that he became inspired to start a career in theater.

Jonathan Groff has expressed a passion in encouraging youth theater; Groff has taught master classes in acting and musical theatre for young actors with the New York Film Academy, Broadway Workshop, Temple University, Young Actors’ Theatre Camp, and the National YoungArts Foundation

He has German, Swiss-German, and traces of English and Scottish ancestry

He Grew Up in An Amish Community

Jonathan Groff Loved Acting Since He Was a Toddler

When he graduated from high school, Jonathan Groff was accepted into a prestigious university

When he was in his early 20s, Groff was diagnosed with a form of cancer called melanoma

He Uses Meditation to Deal with Stress