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Joshua Ilan Gad[1] (born February 23, 1981)[2] is an American actor. He is known for voicing Olaf in the Frozen franchise, playing Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, and playing Le Fou in the live-action adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. For his role as Olaf, Gad won two Annie Awards, and for his work in The Book of Mormon, he co-won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical, both shared with Andrew Rannells as one of the two leading artists.

Josh Gad
Gad at the 41st Annie Awards in 2014
Born	(1981-02-23) February 23, 1981 (age 41) Hollywood, Florida, U.S.
Education	Carnegie Mellon University (BFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2002–present
Spouse	Ida Darvish ​ (m. 2008)​
Children	2

Gad played Skip Gilchrist in the political sitcom 1600 Penn on NBC, and a fictionalized version of himself on FX's The Comedians, alongside Billy Crystal. His other film roles include The Rocker, The Internship, 21, Love & Other Drugs, Jobs, Pixels, The Wedding Ringer, The Angry Birds Movie and its sequel, A Dog's Purpose and its sequel A Dog's Journey, Marshall, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Little Monsters and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. He has also appeared in ER, The Daily Show, Modern Family, New Girl, Bored to Death, and Numb3rs. In 2020, he began starring in the HBO comedy series Avenue 5.

Early life

Joshua Ilan Gad was born in Hollywood, Florida, on February 23, 1981.[2] His mother, Susan,[3] is a real estate agent and his stepfather is an investment advisor, and he has two older brothers, a stepbrother and a stepsister.[1] His father, Sam (Shmuel) Gad was born to a Jewish family in Afghanistan and moved to Israel as a teenager. Gad has stated that he believes his father is a descendant of the Tribe of Gad, one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, further stating that his paternal ancestors travelled through India before settling in Afghanistan.[4] His mother was born in Germany to an Ashkenazi Jewish family of Holocaust survivors.[5][6][7][8] He was raised Jewish.[9][10]

Gad attended the University School of Nova Southeastern University, graduating in 1999. While there, he won the National Forensics League (NFL) National Tournament Championships for Original Oratory in 1998 and 1999. He also won the 1999 Humorous Interpretation at the National tournament in Phoenix.[11] He then attended the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama. He attended college with fellow Broadway stars Leslie Odom Jr. and Rory O’Malley, the latter of whom he based his portrayal of Olaf in Frozen on.[12] During this time, he undertook a semester-long exchange at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.[13]

Career

2002–2008: Early career

Gad made his film debut in the 2002 film Mary and Joe. In 2005, Gad made his television debut by guest-starring in an episode of the NBC medical drama series ER. The same year, he replaced Dan Fogler as William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on Broadway after Fogler left the show.[14] Gad went on to star in the Fox sitcom Back to You as news director Ryan Church. The sitcom lasted one season from 2007 to 2008. In 2008, Gad had a supporting role in the drama film 21, and a leading role in the comedy film The Rocker.

2008–2012: The Book of Mormon and minor success on television

After Back to You, Gad appeared as a correspondent on The Daily Show on May 5, 2009, and became a regular correspondent on June 2, 2009.[15] His signature segments include "The War on Christmas", in which he played an oversexed Benjamin Franklin, and "Chubby Chasers", in which he reported on Michelle Obama's efforts to curb childhood obesity.[16] Gad made his final appearance as a correspondent on June 27, 2011.[17] Also in 2009, Gad starred in the short-form Crackle horror comedy series Woke Up Dead.

In 2010, he had a supporting role in the romantic comedy-drama film Love & Other Drugs opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway. That same year, Gad had a voice role in the family comedy film Marmaduke. In 2011, Gad voiced Mondo in the MTV adult animated sitcom Good Vibes. That same year, Gad portrayed Elder Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon. The show opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 24, 2011.[18] His last performance was June 6, 2012. Gad was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical and won for Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, along with his co-star Andrew Rannells.[19]

In 2012, Gad had a leading role in the independent film She Wants Me. Also in 2012, Gad co-created, produced and starred in the NBC sitcom 1600 Penn. Both Good Vibes and 1600 Penn were canceled after one season. That same year, Gad voiced the molehog Louis in Ice Age: Continental Drift.

2013–2019: Frozen franchise and continued success

In 2013, he played Andrew in the film The Internship and starred as Steve Wozniak in the film Jobs. The same year, he voiced Olaf in the Disney film Frozen, re-collaborating with co-songwriter Robert Lopez from The Book of Mormon. In 2014, Gad co-starred in Zach Braff's film Wish I Was Here, playing the main character's brother.[20]

In 2015, Gad starred alongside Kevin Hart and Kaley Cuoco in The Wedding Ringer and starred alongside Adam Sandler and Peter Dinklage in Pixels, a film about video game players who are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who have attacked the earth.[21] That same year, Gad co-starred with Billy Crystal on the FX comedy series The Comedians, which premiered on April 9, 2015.[22] The series was canceled after one season. In 2016, Gad voiced Chuck in The Angry Birds Movie, based on the game franchise of the same name.

In 2017, Gad voiced the dog Bailey in A Dog's Purpose,[23][24] Also that year, he played LeFou in the live-action adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon and co-starring with Emma Watson.[25] Gad also starred in Reginald Hudlin's biographical drama Marshall, alongside Chadwick Boseman and Beauty and the Beast co-star Dan Stevens, and Gad played Hector MacQueen in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel Murder on the Orient Express, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, alongside Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench, and Daisy Ridley.

In 2019, Gad starred with Lupita Nyong'o and Alexander England in the Hulu horror-comedy Little Monsters.[26] He also starred in A Dog's Journey, the sequel to A Dog's Purpose, reprising his role as Bailey. Also in 2019, Gad reprised his role of Olaf in the sequel Frozen II as well as the video game Kingdom Hearts III.

2020–present: Expanding ventures

In 2020, Gad returned to television by starring in two different television series. First, Gad starred in the HBO science fiction comedy series Avenue 5 opposite Hugh Laurie. The series premiered on January 19 and was renewed for a second season a month later.[27] Second, Gad created, produced and starred in the Apple TV+ animated musical comedy series Central Park. The series received a two-season order from Apple with each season set to consist of thirteen episodes each. The series premiered on May 29.

He starred in the science fantasy adventure Artemis Fowl (2020), based on the book of the same name by Eoin Colfer. The film was initially set for a theatrical release but was changed to a streaming release on Disney+ due to the coronavirus pandemic. In September 2020 Gad joined Princess Bride Reunion, a virtual live script read-through of the 1987 movie, in the role of Fezzik, originally played by André the Giant. The A.V. Club's review singled out his performance as "Josh Gad’s surprisingly moving Andre the Giant tribute... It was an impression in the gentlest, sweetest sense of the word, something remarked on repeatedly by the rest of the cast and host/moderator Patton Oswalt. 10s across the board."[28]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, where people were encouraged to practice social distancing, Gad launched the YouTube series Reunited Apart, which reunites the cast, via video conferencing, of several popular movies and movie series including Back to The Future and Lord of the Rings. The series encourages its viewers to support non-profit charities such as Dig Deep, Project Hope and No Kid Hungry.[29] In June, Gad announced that the episode on Ferris Bueller's Day Off would be the last,[30] though the series later returned for a second season, which premiered in December 2020 with the cast of Wayne's World.[31]

In the runup to the 2020 election, Gad joined other Broadway celebrities with the voter education nonprofit VoteRiders for a virtual party to raise awareness around the complexities of voter ID laws targeting at-risk voters.[32][33]

Gad is set to serve as co-creator, co-writer, and executive-producer for a Beauty and the Beast prequel limited series for Disney+, in which he will also reprise his role as LeFou as a series regular.[34] Gad was also announced to star as Nick Szalinski in the upcoming film Shrunk, a legacy-sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.[35]

In January 2019, it was announced Gad was set to produce the live-action remake of Disney's 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was later rumored Gad was considered to play the lead role of Quasimodo; however this was postponed because of COVID-19.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

In 2004, Gad met actress Ida Darvish after the two were cast to play a married couple in the David Ives play All in the Timing. They married in 2008.[36] Gad has stated that while he loves the traditional aspects of Judaism and celebrates some traditions of his wife's Catholicism, he considers himself spiritual but not religious.[9] They have two daughters, Ava Gad, born in 2011, and Isabella Gad, born in 2014.[37][38] Gad has come out in the past couple years talking about his struggle with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, as part of his effort to combat mental health stigma and shame.[39] As an effort towards squashing the mental health stigma, Gad joined other celebrities in 2018 in an ongoing project through the Child Mind Institute, titled #MyYoungerSelf. This campaign focuses on normalizing mental health especially in kids. The website features Gad and other celebrities talking about their own personal struggles with mental health and how they've found the help they need, while they also encourage viewers to find what can specifically help them.[40]Reunited Apart, talked about in the career section above, helped Gad get through the pandemic and lockdown. While he was out of work for the lockdown, he was able to focus on the series and not let his mental health plummet like many other Americans suffered from during the lockdown period.[41]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes
2002	Mary and Joe	Angel	John R. Hamilton
2006	Razortooth	Jay	Patricia Harrington
2007	Watching the Detectives	Mark	Paul Soter
2008	21	Miles	Robert Luketic
	The Rocker	Matt	Peter Cattaneo
2009	Crossing Over	Howie	Wayne Kramer
	The Lost Nomads: Get Lost 22	Gigi Miss Piggy Jose Sanchez The Clown Spatula Lover	Ty Clancey
	Big Guy	Rodney	David Oyelowo	Short film
2010	Marmaduke	Bandana Dog	Tom Dey	Voice
	Love & Other Drugs	Josh Randall	Edward Zwick
2011	Mardi Gras: Spring Break	Bartholomew T. "Bump" Brown	Phil Dornfield
2012	She Wants Me	Sam Baum	Rob Margolies
	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Louis	Steve Martino Michael Thurmeier	Voice
	Thanks for Sharing	Neil	Stuart Blumberg
2013	Jobs	Steve Wozniak	Joshua Michael Stern
	The Internship	Andrew "Headphones" Anderson	Shawn Levy
	Frozen	Olaf	Chris Buck Jennifer Lee	Voice; Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
2014	Wish I Was Here	Noah Bloom	Zach Braff
2015	The Wedding Ringer	Doug Harris	Jeremy Garelick	Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor
	Frozen Fever	Olaf	Chris Buck Jennifer Lee	Voice; short film
	Pixels	Ludlow Lamonsoff	Chris Columbus	Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor
2016	The Angry Birds Movie	Chuck	Clay Kaytis Fergal Reilly	Voice[42]
2017	A Dog's Purpose	Toby/Bailey/Ellie/Tino/Waffles/Buddy	Lasse Hallström	Voice
	Beauty and the Beast	LeFou	Bill Condon
	Marshall	Sam Friedman	Reginald Hudlin
	Murder on the Orient Express	Hector MacQueen	Kenneth Branagh
	Olaf's Frozen Adventure	Olaf (voice)	Kevin Deters Stevie Wermers	Voice; television special
2018	Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.	Himself	Steve Loveridge	Documentary
2019	Little Monsters[43]	Nathan Schneider/Teddy McGiggle	Abe Forsythe
	A Dog's Journey	Bailey/Molly/Big Dog/Max[44]	Gail Mancuso	Voice
	The Angry Birds Movie 2	Chuck	Thurop Van Orman	Voice
	Frozen II	Olaf	Chris Buck Jennifer Lee	Voice; Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
2020	Artemis Fowl	Mulch Diggums	Kenneth Branagh
	Once Upon a Snowman	Olaf	Dan Abraham Trent Correy	Voice; short film
2021	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Muncher	Jason Reitman	Voice

Television

Year	Title	Role	Creator(s)	Notes
2005	ER	Sgt. Bruce Larabee	Michael Crichton	Episode: "Here and There"
2007–08	Back to You	Ryan Church	Christopher Lloyd Steven Levitan	Main role; 17 episodes
2008	American Dad!	Art (voice)	Seth MacFarlane Mike Barker Matt Weitzman	Episode: "Pulling Double Booty"
2008, 2009	Numbers	Roy McGill	Nicolas Falacci Cheryl Heuton	2 episodes
2009	Waiting to Die	Simon		TV movie
	No Heroics	Horseforce
	Party Down	Jeffrey Ells	John Enbom Rob Thomas Dan Etheridge Paul Rudd	Episode: "California College Conservative Union Caucus"
2009–11	The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Himself (correspondent)	Madeleine Smithberg Lizz Winstead	5 episodes
2010	Bored to Death	Warren	Jonathan Ames	Episode: "Make It Quick, Fitzgerald!"
2011	The Cleveland Show	Droopy / Pimp	Seth MacFarlane Richard Appel Mike Henry	Voice; episode: "Our Gang"
	Californication	Doctor	Tom Kapinos	2 episodes
	Gigi: Almost American	Gigi	Ty Clancey	10 episodes Also executive producer
2011, 2020	Modern Family	Kenneth Ploufe	Christopher Lloyd Steven Levitan	2 episodes: "Punkin Chunkin" and "Dead on a Rival"
2011	Good Vibes	Mondo (voice)	David Gordon Green Brad Ableson Mike Clements	Main role; 12 episodes
2012–13	1600 Penn	Skip Gilchrist	Josh Gad Jon Lovett Jason Winer	Main role; 13 episodes; also co-creator and executive producer
2012–15	New Girl	Bearclaw	Elizabeth Meriwether	3 episodes: "Katie", "Birthday", "Walk of Shame"
2013	Hollywood Game Night	Himself	Sean Hayes Todd Milliner	Episode: "America's Got Game Night"
2014	Monsters vs. Aliens	Internet	Mark McCorkle Bob Schooley	Voice; episode: "Bride of the Internet"
2015	The Comedians	Josh	Larry Charles Billy Crystal Matt Nix Ben Wexler	Main role
	Sesame Street	Vincent Van Stop	Joan Ganz Cooney Lloyd Morrisett	Episode: "Bert's Sign Painting Challenge[45]
	Phineas and Ferb	Wendell	Dan Povenmire Jeff "Swampy" Marsh	Voice; 2 episodes
	TripTank	Louis	Various	Voice; 1 episode
	Jeopardy!	Himself	Merv Griffin	Celebrity contestant[46]
2016	Lip Sync Battle	Himself / Donald Trump	John Krasinski Stephen Merchant	Episode: "Josh Gad vs. Kaley Cuoco"
	Sofia the First	Olaf	Craig Gerber	Voice; episode: "The Secret Library: Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle"
	LEGO Frozen Northern Lights	Olaf		Voice; special
	Talking Dead	Himself		Guest
2017	Star Wars Rebels	LT-319	Simon Kinberg Dave Filoni Carrie Beck	Voice; episode: "Double Agent Droid"
	South Park	Marcus Preston / Ms. McGullicutty	Trey Parker Matt Stone	Voice; episode: "Hummels & Heroin" Also producer
2018	Bob's Burgers	Damon	Loren Bouchard	Voice; episode: "Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for Now"
2019	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Himself	Ellen DeGeneres	Guest host
2020–present	Avenue 5	Herman Judd	Armando Iannucci	Main cast
2020	At Home with Olaf	Olaf		Main role; voice
2020–present	Central Park	Birdie / Ernst Von Gunten	Josh Gad Loren Bouchard Nora Smith	Main cast; voice; also co-creator, writer and executive producer
2020	Home Movie: The Princess Bride	Grandson[47]	Jason Reitman	Episode: "Chapter One: As You Wish"[48]
2021	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Chiropractor	Larry David	Episode: "Man Fights Tiny Woman"
2022–present	Wolf Like Me	Gary	Abe Forsythe	Main Cast
2022	The Boys	Himself	Eric Kripke	Episode: "Herogasm"; cameo
2022	The Tiny Chef Show	Himself	Rachel Larsen Adam Reid Ozlem Akturk	2 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Voice roles
2012	MIB: Alien Crisis	Emilio Chauncey, Handsome Guest, Khnemu
2013	Frozen: Olaf's Quest	Olaf
2015	Disney Infinity 3.0[49]
2019	Kingdom Hearts III

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Woke Up Dead	Matt	21 episodes
2013	Kevin Pollak's Chat Show	Himself / Guest	Episode: "163"
2019–present	Blood Ties	Michael Richland	Radio Drama/Podcast
2020–present	Reunited Apart	Host	Web Series

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Notes
2005	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee	William Barfée (Replacement)	Circle in the Square Theatre
2011	The Book of Mormon	Elder Cunningham (Original Broadway Cast)	Eugene O'Neill Theatre	Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album Nominated - Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

References

External links

• Josh Gad at the Internet Broadway Database
• Josh Gad at IMDb
• Josh Gad on Twitter
• Josh Gad on Instagram
• Josh Gad at the TCM Movie Database

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[de] Josh Gad

Joshua Ilan „Josh“ Gad (* 23. Februar 1981 in Hollywood, Florida)[3] ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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[es] Josh Gad

Joshua Ilan Gad (Hollywood, Florida, 23 de febrero de 1981), más conocido como Josh Gad, es un actor estadounidense famoso dar voz a Olaf en Frozen y por interpretar a Elder Arnold Cunningham en el musical de Broadway The Book of Mormon, además de por su papel como Ryan Church en la serie Back to You. También apareció en series como ER, The Daily Show, Modern Family, New Girl, Bored to Death y Numb3rs. En el cine, ha estado en The Rocker, Crossing Over, She Wants Me, 21, Love and Other Drugs, Jobs, Pixels, Angry Birds, La bella y la bestia y como Skip Gilchrist en la sitcom 1600 Penn.

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[ru] Гэд, Джош

Джошуа Илан Гэд (англ. Joshua Ilan Gad, тж. Джош Гад; 23 февраля 1981, США) — американский актёр театра и кино. Стал известен после роли в комедии «Вернуться к вам».

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