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Noah Egidi Galvin (born May 6, 1994) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Dr. Asher Wolke in the TV series The Good Doctor, Kenny O'Neal in the ABC sitcom The Real O'Neals and later taking over the titular role in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen.

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Noah Galvin
Born	Noah Egidi Galvin (1994-05-06) May 6, 1994 (age 28) Katonah, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor singer
Years active	2006–present
Partner	Ben Platt (2020–present)

Early life

Galvin was born and raised in Katonah, New York. Galvin has two siblings, including multi-instrumentalist Yoke Lore.[1] His father is Catholic, of Irish and Italian descent,[2] and his mother, Abbie (née Fink), is Jewish; he was raised "both Jewish and Catholic going to CCD, Hebrew School and church,"[3][4] and has described himself as Jewish.[5]

Acting career

Before starring in The Real O'Neals, he also appeared Off-Broadway for companies such as Signature, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Public, The Culture Project, The Flea, The Wild Project, New York Theater Workshop, the Barrow Street Theater, Rattlestick, Ensemble Studio Theater, and many others. His audiobook work includes Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Matthew Quick's Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock.

In August 2017, Galvin was named as a temporary replacement for the title role in Dear Evan Hansen, after the departure of Ben Platt. Galvin assumed the role on November 21, 2017, and played his final performance on February 4, 2018.[6] He also took part of the Broadway production Waitress, playing Ogie from April 29, 2019, to August 18, 2019, where Todrick Hall took over the role. In addition to his stage roles, Galvin also narrated the character part of Arthur in What If It's Us, a novel by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli.[7] He subsequently narrated the Gimlet podcast, The Two Princes,[8] which was released June 4, 2019.

On February 17, 2020, Galvin starred in Manhattan Concert Productions' one-night-only 50th Anniversary concert presentation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Lincoln Center.

In 2020, Galvin joined the cast of the television series The Good Doctor in the recurring role of Dr. Asher Wolke. In 2021, he was promoted to season regular for their upcoming fifth season.[9]

On June 9, 2022, it was announced that Galvin would star in the musical comedy film Theater Camp, inspired by the 2020 short film of the same name co-written with partner Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, and Nick Lieberman.[10][11]

Personal life

Galvin is gay; he came out to his mother when he was 14 years old.[12] As of February 2019 he splits his time between Manhattan and Los Angeles, California.[13] On January 12, 2020, Galvin began a relationship with actor-singer Ben Platt, whom Galvin replaced in the title role of Dear Evan Hansen in 2017.[14]

Acting credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Promised Land	Jackson	Short film
2014	Welcome to the Wayne	Leif Bornewell III	Short film
2018	Assassination Nation	Marty
2019	Booksmart	George
2020	Theater Camp	Bradley “Baby” Bjorn	Short film; also writer and producer[15]
TBA	Theater Camp		Post-production[16] Also writer and producer

Television

Year	Title	Role	Note
2015	The Weekend Detectives	Josh	Episode: "Proof of Concept"
2016–2017	The Real O'Neals	Kenny O'Neal	Lead role; 29 episodes
2017	RuPaul's Drag Race	Himself	Judge on Season 9 Episode 9
2020	The Owl House	Jerbo (voice)	Episode: "The First Day"
2020–present	The Good Doctor	Dr. Asher Wolke	Recurring role (Season 4); main role (Season 5–present)
2021	Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist	Therapy Patient	Episode: "Zoey's Extraordinary Double Date"
2021	The Other Two	Eddie	Episode: "Pat Connects With Her Fans"

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes	Ref.
2005	Les Misérables	Gavroche	Various	National tour
2006	The Who's Tommy	Tommy Walker	Bay Street Theatre	Regional	[17]
2006	Ace	Billy Lucas	The Repertory Theatre		[4]
2008	Norman's Ark	Harry Johnson	John Anson Ford Amphitheatre		[18]
2008	Esther Demsack	Everette Brewster	The Public Theater	Off-Broadway	[19]
2010	Our Town	Wally Webb	Barrow Street Theatre		[20]
2010	The Burnt Part Boys	Dusty Rivers	Playwrights Horizons		[21]
2011	Treasure Island	Jim Hawkins	Irondale Center	Off-Off-Broadway	[22]
2013	The Power of Duff	Ricky Duff	Huntington Theatre Company	Regional	[23]
2015	What I Did Last Summer	Charlie Higgins	Pershing Square Signature Center	Off-Broadway	[24]
2017–2018	Dear Evan Hansen	Evan Hansen	Music Box Theatre	Broadway	[25]
2019	Alice by Heart	Dodgy/Duchess/Dodo/Mock Mock Mock Mock Turtle	MCC Theater	Off-Broadway	[26]
2019	Waitress	Ogie Herbert Eincorn	Brooks Atkinson Theater	Broadway	[27]
2020	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat	Joseph	David Geffen Hall	Concert production	[28]

Audio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Charlie Kelmeckis	Audiobook - Main role
2018	What If It's Us	Arthur Seuss	Audiobook - Main role
2019–2020	The Two Princes	Prince Rupert	Audio drama - Main role, 3 seasons
2021	Here's To Us	Arthur Seuss	Audiobook - Main role
2021	Goosebumps the Musical	Brian Colson	Original Studio Cast Recording

See also

• LGBT culture in New York City
• List of LGBT people from New York City

References

External links

• Noah Galvin at IMDb
• Noah Galvin at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Noah Galvin on Twitter

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