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Matthew Morrison
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American actor, dancer, and singer
OverviewAI-generated
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.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 115,348
- Total plays
- 968,238
Tags
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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,559x
- limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies
· 2015 · cited 36,945x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,397x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,052x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,478x
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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
- Educated at
- New York University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- pop music
- 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
Sources (7)
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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.