Ben Platt
Sign in to saveAmerican actor and singer (born 1993)
Person
- Born
- 1993-09-24
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Film & TV
Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA
Benjamin Schiff Platt (born September 24, 1993) is an American actor and singer. The son of film and theatre producer Marc Platt and philanthropist Julie Platt, he began his acting career in musical theatre as a child. He appeared in productions of The Sound of Music (2006) and The Book of Mormon (2012–2015), rising to prominence for originating the title role in the Broadway coming-of-age…
Known for
- The Beauty — Manny2026
- Trisha Paytas' Big Broadway Dream — Self - Guest Star2025
- Chow — Mike2024
- Therapuss — Self2024
- Theater Camp — Amos Klobuchar2023
- Cynthia Erivo & Friends: A New Year's Eve Celebration — Self2023
- The People We Hate at the Wedding — Paul2022
- The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self2022
- Broken Diamonds — Scott2021
- Dear Evan Hansen — Evan Hansen2021
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- Total plays
- 16,708,638
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Ben Platt is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He began his career in theater, gaining notoriety in the Broadway productions of The Book of Mormon (2012–2013) and playing the title character in the critically acclaimed stage play Dear Evan Hansen (2015–2017), for which he won multiple awards including the 2017 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, the 2017 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program, alo
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
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· 2015 · cited 72,756x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 52,579x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,403x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,755x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
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Key dates
- Born
- 24 September 1993
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ben
- Family name
- Platt
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Spouse
- Noah Galvin
- Father
- Marc Platt
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- Columbia University
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1993 births21st-century American Jews21st-century American LGBTQ people21st-century American male actors21st-century American male singers21st-century American singersAmerican gay actorsAmerican gay musiciansAmerican male child actorsAmerican male film actorsAmerican male musical theatre actorsAmerican male songwriters