Matthew James Morrison is an American actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter. He is known for starring in multiple Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including his portrayal of Link Larkin in Hairspray. He also starred as Will Schuester on the Fox television show Glee. His first studio album, Matthew Morrison, was released on May 10, 2011.
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Matthew James Morrison is an American actor, dancer, and singer-songwriter. He is known for starring in multiple Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including his portrayal of Link Larkin in Hairspray on Broadway. He also starred as Will Schuester on the Fox television show Glee. Morrison is signed with Adam Levine’s 222 Records and received a Tony Award nomination for his featured role as Fabrizio Nacarelli in the musical The Light in the Piazza. From March 2015 to January 2016, Morrison starred in the lead role of J. M. Barrie in the Broadway production of Finding Neverland. Morrison was born in Fort Ord, California, the son of Mary Louise and Thomas Morrison. He was raised in Chico, California and has Scottish and English ancestry.
He attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for two years before dropping out and joining the Broadway adaptation of Footloose. In 1999, while still at NYU, Morrison appeared on Late Show with David Letterman and Total Request Live as one of five members of the fictional parody boy band \”Fresh Step\”, an act that was conceived by several Late Show writers. In 2001, Morrison was recruited to complete the quartet for the band LMNT, but was replaced instead by Jonas Persch by the time its first album was released. His first studio album, Matthew Morrison, was released on May 10, 2011. He made his directorial debut with the third season’s ninth episode of Glee in January 2010.
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