This is an accepted version of this page Andrew Scott Rannells (born August 23, 1978) is an American actor.

For his performance in the Off West End production of Tammy Faye, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award.

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).

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.

[8] Rannells moved to New York City in 1997 after graduating from high school, studying theater at Marymount Manhattan College for two years before he started auditioning full-time and began landing roles.

[9] Active in community theater, Rannells got his start as a professional actor as a teenager through voice acting.

In the mid-1990s, he found work with the animation production company DIC Entertainment through an Omaha casting call.

[citation needed] One of his first theater roles was as the character James in the touring production of Pokémon Live!

[13] Before 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.

[21] In 2011, Rannells originated the role of Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, a musical written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q composer Robert Lopez.

[26] In 2015 Universal Pictures acquired a comedy that was to be written by Rannells with Mike Doyle and produced by Judd Apatow.

[28] Rannells played the role of Whizzer Brown in the Broadway revival of Falsettos directed by James Lapine.

On the television show Black Monday Rannells played Blair Pfaff, one of the leading roles and was also a producer.

[35] During this period, he also returned to voice acting; notable credits include main roles in Netflix's Big Mouth (2017–2025) and Amazon's Invincible (2021–present).

[36] In 2022 Rannells made his London stage debut originating the role of Jim Bakker in the musical Tammy Faye at the Almeida Theatre.

[38] Originally announced to reprise this role for the Broadway transfer in the fall of 2024, he dropped out of the production after contract negotiations failed and was replaced by his Falsettos co-star Christian Borle.

It is a series of essays about his childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, and his years spent in New York leading up to his 2005 Broadway debut in Hairspray.