Matthew Morrison
An actor, dancer and singer, Matthew Morrison is a world-renowned triple threat recognised for his work on-stage and on-screen.
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Tony Award nominated Matthew has set the world-famous Broadway stage alight for the past 20 years.
His musical theatre debut on Broadway came when he was cast for Footloose in 1998, before starring in the revival of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 2002. As the original Link Larkin on Broadway, he starred in Hairspray from it’s opening in 2002 through until 2004. Other theatre credits include roles in Catch Me If You Can, South Pacific and most recently as J.M Barrie in the musical Finding Neverland.
British audiences will best know Matthew as the music teacher extraordinaire Will Schuester in the Golden Globe winning musical series Glee, which ran for six seasons between 2009 and 2015.
An esteemed singer, Matthew has also released two albums – a self-titled album in 2011 which featured A-List guest artists including Sting, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sir Elton John, and his 2013 album ‘Where It All Began’. The latter was produced by pioneer Phil Ramone and features showtunes such as ‘Singin’ in the Rain’, ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’ and ‘The Lady Is a Tramp’.
In 2019 Matthew was cast in the ninth series of FX’s Emmy & Golden Globe award winning hit American Horror Story. Entitled 1984, Matthew plays Camp Activity Director Trevor Kircher (complete with 80s handlebar moustache - which can be seen in the first few episodes of The Greatest Dancer Series 2).
Alongside Emma Bunton, in November 2019 Matthew hosted a two-hour Thanksgiving spectacular on ABC called The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration. As well as presenting the show Matthew also performed a medley of When You Wish Upon A Star and Let It Snow.
Matthew has also teamed up with Disney to release an album of classics entitled Disney Dreamin’, due for release in March 2020.
