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When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
Andrew Rannells
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Andrew Rannells
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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Nebraska
Andrew Scott Rannells
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The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can.
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I love doing both theater and television. I definitely foresee more Broadway, but I think I would like to keep the singing and the TV separate.
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Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.
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At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
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My mother was predominately a stay-at-home Mom.
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Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop... Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.
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I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.
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I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.
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Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
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I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation.
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My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?
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I love doing both theater and television.
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I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
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So much of being an actor is trying to force yourself into these roles and sometimes it's a good fit, and sometimes it's not a good fit... you have to get clear about what it is that you do and not try to be a bunch of other people. Not try to be that guy or try to play that part find the roles that you do well.
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As an actor, you generally don’t get to choose what projects you are part of, so I’ve been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of. I don’t want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
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I was interested in being part of interesting stories. As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of.
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This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.
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Girls was the first television show I got to be a part of, and that was here in New York. Getting to work with Lena Dunham, and to work with HBO and Judd Apatow, and then being a big fan of Ryan Murphy, I couldn't have asked for a better opportunity than this.
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I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.
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I'm 6'2 and not a small person.
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