Josh Gad
Josh Gad was born in Hollywood, Broward County, Florida, United States on February 23rd, 1981 and is the Stage Actor. At the age of 43, Josh Gad biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Joshua Ilan Gad (born February 23, 1981) is an American actor, comedian and singer.
He is known for voicing Olaf in Frozen, playing Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, and LeFou in the live-action adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
For his activity as Olaf, Gad won an Annie Award, and for his work on The Book of Mormon, he gained a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical nomination. He has also appeared in ER, The Daily Show, Modern Family, New Girl, Bored to Death, and Numb3rs. 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, Frozen, Love & Other Drugs, Jobs, Pixels, The Wedding Ringer, The Angry Birds Movie and the sequel, A Dog's Purpose and sequel A Dog's Journey, Marshall, and Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
He will star in the upcoming Netflix movie Super-Normal.
Early life
Joshua Ilan Gad was born in Hollywood, Florida, on February 23, 1981. His mother, Susan, is a real estate agent and his stepfather is an investment advisor, and he has two older brothers, a stepbrother and a stepsister. 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. His mother was born in Germany to an Ashkenazi Jewish family of Holocaust survivors. He was raised Jewish.
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. 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. During this time, he undertook a semester-long exchange at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
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. 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. They have two daughters, Ava Gad, born in 2011, and Isabella Gad, born in 2014. Gad has come out in the past couple years talking about his struggle with General Anxiety Disorder, or GAD, as part of his effort to combat mental health stigma and shame. 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.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.
Career
In the 2002 film Mary and Joe, Gad made his film debut. Gad made his television debut in 2005 by guest-starring in an episode of NBC medical drama series ER. After Fogler's departure, he replaced Dan Fogler as William Barfée in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on Broadway. Gad went on to appear as news director Ryan Church on Fox sitcom Back to You. The sitcom ran from 2007 to 2008. Gad appeared in the drama film 21, as well as a leading role in the comedy film The Rocker, in 2008.
Gad started as a correspondent on The Daily Show on May 5, 2009, and then became a regular correspondent on June 2, 2009. "The War on Christmas," in which he played an oversexed Benjamin Franklin, and "Chubby Chasers," in which he focused on Michelle Obama's attempts to reduce childhood obesity, were two of his signature segments. On June 27, 2011, Gad's last appearance as a journalist came to an end. Gad appeared in the short-form Horror comedy series Woke Up Dead in 2009.
He appeared in Love & Other Drugs, a romantic comedy-drama film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in 2010. Gad appeared on television in the family comedies film Marmaduke that year. In 2011, Gad appeared on Mondo in the MTV adult animated sitcom Good Vibes. In the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, Gad portrayed Elder Cunningham in the same year. On March 24, 2011, the Eugene O'Neill Theatre opened the show. His last appearance was on June 6, 2012. Gad was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Musical Theater Album, as well as his co-star Andrew Rannells.
Gad appeared in the independent film She Wants Me in 2012. Gad co-created, produced, and starred in the NBC sitcom 1600 Penn, which was also in 2012. After one season, both Good Vibes and 1600 Penn were cancelled. In Ice Age: Continental Drift, Gad reported the molehog Louis.
He appeared Andrew in the film The Internship in 2013 and starred as Steve Wozniak in the film Jobs. He appeared in Olaf in the Disney film Frozen the year before, re-collaborating with co-songwriter Robert Lopez from The Book of Mormon. Gad appeared in Zach Braff's film Wish I Was Here in 2014, as the main character's brother.
Gad appeared in The Wedding Ringer and Kaley Cuoco in 2015 and starred Adam Sandler and Peter Dinklage in Pixels, a film about video game players who have been recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters that have conquered the world. Gad co-starred with Billy Crystal on the FX comedy series The Comedians, which premiered on April 9, 2015. After a season, the show was cancelled. Chuck in The Angry Birds Movie, which was based on the same name of the game franchise.
Bailey appeared in A Dog's Purpose in 2017. Also this year, Gad appeared in LeFou's live-action version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon and co-starring Emma Watson. Gad appeared in Reginald Hudlin's biographical drama Marshall, alongside Chadwick Boseman and Beauty and the Beast co-star Dan Stevens, and in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's mystery book Murder on the Orient Express starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench, and Daisy Ridley, with Hector MacQueen.
In the Hulu horror-comedy Little Monsters film, Gad appeared with Lupita Nyong'o and Alexander England in 2019. He appeared in A Dog's Journey, the sequel to A Dog's Purpose, reprising his role as Bailey. In addition, Gad reprised his role as Olaf in the sequel Frozen II and the video game Kingdom Hearts III.
Gad returned to television in 2020 by appearing in two separate television series. Gad appeared in the HBO science fiction comedy series Avenue 5 opposite Hugh Laurie for the first time. The series debuted on January 19 and was revived for a second season a month later. Gad created, produced, and starred in the Apple TV+ animated musical comedy series Central Park in second. Apple granted the series a two-season contract, with each season expected to consist of thirteen episodes. On May 29, the series premiered.
He appeared in Artemis Fowl (2020), based on Eoin Colfer's book of the same name. The film was originally planned for a theatrical premiere but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was switched to a streaming version on Disney+. In September 2020, Gad appeared in Princess Bride Reunion, a virtual live script read-through of the 1987 film, alongside André the Giant's role. The A.V. "Josh Gad's surprisingly moving Andre the Giant tribute" stood out in the club's review. It was an appearance in the mildest, sweetest sense of the word, something that was repeated repeatedly by the cast and host/moderator Patton Oswalt. "All around the board are tens."
Gad produced Reunited Apart, which reunites the cast of several popular movies and movie series such as Back to the Future and Lord of the Rings, which encouraged people to participate in social distancing. The series encourages viewers to support non-profit charities such as Dig Deep, Project Hope, and No Kid Hungry. Gad's Day Off's Day Off episode in June will be the last on the series, although it later returned for a second season in December 2020 with the cast of Wayne's World.
Gad joined fellow Broadway stars with the voter advocacy group VoteRiders for a virtual party to raise concerns about the complexities of voter ID policies targeting vulnerable voters in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Gad is expected to act as co-creator, co-writer, and executive-producer for a Disney+ limited series in which he will reprise his role as LeFou as a series regular. Gad was also revealed to appear as Nick Szalinski in the forthcoming film Shrunk, a legacy-sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Children.
Gad was expected to produce the live-action version of Disney's 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame in January 2019. Later, it was thought that Gad would play Quasimodo's lead role, but this was postponed due to COVID-19. Gad gave a brief update on the film's production after two years of postponement, on January 2021.