Andrew Scott Rannells (born August 23, 1978) is an American actor, voice actor, and singer.
My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.
Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.
I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.
I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.
When I was a kid, there were hardly any gay story lines or characters on television that I recall. Then when I was in college, 'Will & Grace' started up.
Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?
Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop. Sometimes after some bad auditions I think, you know what - time to open that scone shop! Let's start baking.
I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.
I think Girls is so great, because versions of it are close to my own experience of moving to New York. It's a fun. You know - get to be messy and silly and irresponsible, but also wrap that up at the end of the day and be an adult. It's a fun time, but not necessarily one you want to stay in for too long.
I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.
This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
When I talk to Ryan Murphy or Ali Adler about my past or things in my personal life, occasionally pieces of that will end up in the script, and I think that's true of everybody. It's true of that entire writer's room, certainly of Ryan and Ali. I think that he writes really well for actors, for his actors, and he writes to their strengths. I always feel very well taken care of with him.
I'm 6'2 and not a small person.
I love doing both theater and television.
Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.
Girls was the first television show I got to be a part of, and that was here in New York. Getting to work with Lena Dunham, and to work with HBO and Judd Apatow, and then being a big fan of Ryan Murphy, I couldn't have asked for a better opportunity than this.
The majority of celebrities that come to the show actually don't come backstage. Because they don't know that they can.
I was interested in being part of interesting stories. As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of.