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. 2.3 2012–present: Work in television and theater.2.2 2002–2012: Broadway debut and The Book of Mormon.2.1 1994–2002: Early career and voice acting.He has accumulated numerous voice acting credits since the beginning of his career including currently, Matthew MacDell on Netflix's Big Mouth and William Clockwell on Amazon Prime's Invincible. 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.
