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Matthew Morrison

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Also known as Matthew James Morrison

American actor, dancer, and singer

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Matthew Morrison is an American actor and singer whose career began in 1999. He is associated with the musical *Glee*, as well as Broadway and musical theatre. His work has been tagged with genres including pop and musical. Morrison has two children.

His discography and performances have accumulated significant attention, with 115,348 listeners and 968,238 plays recorded on Last.fm. He has 900,559 social media followers. According to Crossref, he has five works, while Open Library lists three works under his name. His profile is referenced by 449 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1945-08-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
115,348
Total plays
968,238

Tags

gleepopBroadwaymusicalMusical theatre

Matthew James Morrison (born October 30, 1978) is an American musical theater, film and television actor, singer, songwriter, and dancer. Matthew was born in Fort Ord, California, U.S. He was educated at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Orange County High School of the Arts. He made his musical theater debut on Broadway in the musical version of Footloose, followed by a revival of the Rocky Horror Show in 1999. His big break came when he landed the role of Link Larkin in

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Key facts

Born
Matthew James Morrison , ( 1978-10-30 ) October 30, 1978 (age 47) , Fort Ord, California , U.S.
Education
New York University , (attended)
Occupations
Actor dancer singer
Years active
1997–present
Spouse
Renee Puente ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2014 ) ​
Genres
Pop jazz soul pop standards
Instrument
Vocals
Labels
Mercury 222 Records

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Matthew
Family name
Morrison
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Fort Ord
Occupation
dancer
Languages spoken
English language
Instrument
voice
Record label
Mercury Records
Image
Matthew Morrison Peabody 2010 (cropped).jpg
Number of children
2
Voice type
tenor
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Commons category
Matthew Morrison
date of birth
1978-10-30
start of work period
1999-00-00
different from
Matthew Morison
social media followers
834851
unmarried partner
Chrishell Stause
number of viewers/listeners
459455
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Encyclopedic overview

Matthew James Morrison (born October 30, 1978) is an American actor, dancer, and singer, best known for his role as Will Schuester on the Fox television show Glee (2009–2015).

Morrison has starred in multiple Broadway and off-Broadway productions. He appeared as Link Larkin in the original Broadway cast of Hairspray (2002), as Fabrizio Nacarelli in the original Broadway cast of the musical The Light in the Piazza (2005, for which he received a Tony Award nomination), and in the starring role of J.M. Barrie in the original Broadway cast of Finding Neverland (2015-2016). In April 2026, he returned to Broadway as Bobby Darin in Just in Time replacing Jonathan Groff.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Matthew Morrison” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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