Ben Platt is a Tony Award-winning actor and singer best known for musicals including the Pitch Perfect film franchise and Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen.
A Los Angeles native, Platt's father is film and theater producer Marc Platt (La La Land, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert) and his older brother Jonah is an actor, writer, and composer. Ben Platt has said that he caught the acting bug at the age of nine, when he was cast as Winthrop in a production of The Music Man at the Hollywood Bowl, alongside Kristin Chenoweth and Eric McCormack. He later returned to the Hollywood ...