Josh Gad
Josh Gad
Joshua Ilan "Josh" Gad is an American actor, comedian, and singer best known for voicing Olaf in Frozen, for originating the role of Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, and Ryan Church in the television series Back to You...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth23 February 1981
CityHollywood, FL
CountryUnited States of America
book shows
When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
cat years singing
I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.
kids tiny changing-your-life
When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.
dream college years
When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.
perfect wife modern-family
I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.
carnegie delivering drama education four hand promise school seen shakespeare taking television thrilled trying
I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.
takes trying
If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'
past breathing actors
When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.
people polarizing
I love polarizing people.
I was trained as a straight dramatist.
I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.
mother dream daughter
It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.
mother powerful sadness
I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
taken joy hollywood
Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.