Andrew Rannells

Andrew Rannells is an American openly gay actor and singer known for originating Elder Price in The Book of Mormon on Broadway (2011), earning a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. He then starred as Bryan Collins in The New Normal (2012), one of the first network sitcoms to center on a gay couple starting a family, and as Elijah Krantz in Girls (2012). He received a Tony nomination for Falsettos (2016), a revival of the landmark queer musical about AIDS and chosen family. He has also voiced the openly gay teen Matthew MacDell on the animated series Big Mouth (2017). Rannells has spoken frankly about growing up gay in Catholic Nebraska and the tension between his faith upbringing and his identity, themes also explored in his memoir Too Much Is Not Enough (2019).