Josh Gad

Both Good Vibes and 1600 Penn were canceled after one season.

That same year, Gad voiced the molehog Louis in Ice Age: Continental Drift.

The same year, he replaced Dan Fogler as William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on Broadway after Fogler left the show.

Gad went on to star in the Fox sitcom Back to You as news director Ryan Church.

Joshua Ilan Gad (born February 23, 1981) is an American actor.

He is known for voicing Olaf in the Frozen franchise, playing Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, and playing Le Fou in the live-action adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

For his role as Olaf, Gad won two Annie Awards, and for his work in The Book of Mormon, he co-won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical, both shared with Andrew Rannells as one of the two leading artists.

Joshua Ilan Gad was born in Hollywood, Florida, on February 23, 1981.

His mother, Susan, is a real estate agent and his stepfather is an investment advisor, and he has two older brothers Jason Gad and Jeff Gad, a stepbrother and a stepsister.

His father, Sam (Shmuel) Gad was born to a Jewish family in Afghanistan and moved to Israel as a teenager.

Gad believes his father is a descendant of the Tribe of Gad, one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, further stating that his paternal ancestors traveled through India before settling in Afghanistan.

His mother was born in Germany to an Ashkenazi Jewish family of Holocaust survivors.

He was raised Jewish.

While there, he won the National Forensics League (NFL) National Tournament Championships for Original Oratory in 1998 and 1999.

Gad attended the University School of Nova Southeastern University, graduating in 1999.

He also won the 1999 Humorous Interpretation at the National tournament in Phoenix.

Gad made his film debut in the 2002 film Mary and Joe. In 2005, Gad made his television debut by guest-starring in an episode of the NBC medical drama series ER.

He then attended the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.

He attended college with fellow Broadway stars Leslie Odom Jr.. and Rory O’Malley, the latter of whom he based his portrayal of Olaf in Frozen on.

During this time, he undertook a semester-long exchange at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.

The sitcom lasted one season from 2007 to 2008.

In 2008, Gad had a supporting role in the drama film 21, and a leading role in the comedy film The Rocker.

After Back to You, Gad appeared as a correspondent on The Daily Show on May 5, 2009, and became a regular correspondent on June 2, 2009.

His signature segments include "The War on Christmas", in which he played an oversexed Benjamin Franklin, and "Chubby Chasers", in which he reported on Michelle Obama's efforts to curb childhood obesity.

Also in 2009, Gad starred in the short-form Crackle horror comedy series Woke Up Dead.

In 2010, he had a supporting role in the romantic comedy-drama film Love & Other Drugs opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.

That same year, Gad had a voice role in the family comedy film Marmaduke.

Gad made his final appearance as a correspondent on June 27, 2011.

In 2011, Gad voiced Mondo in the MTV adult animated sitcom Good Vibes.

That same year, Gad portrayed Elder Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon. The show opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 24, 2011.

Gad was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical and won for Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, along with his co-star Andrew Rannells.

His last performance was June 6, 2012.

In 2012, Gad had a leading role in the independent film She Wants Me.

Also in 2012, Gad co-created, produced and starred in the NBC sitcom 1600 Penn.

In 2013, he played Andrew in the film The Internship and starred as Steve Wozniak in the film Jobs.

The same year, he voiced Olaf in the Disney film Frozen, re-collaborating with co-songwriter Robert Lopez from The Book of Mormon.

In 2014, Gad co-starred in Zach Braff's film Wish I Was Here, playing the main character's brother.

In 2015, Gad starred alongside Kevin Hart and Kaley Cuoco in The Wedding Ringer and starred alongside Adam Sandler and Peter Dinklage in Pixels, a film about video game players who are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who have attacked the earth.

That same year, Gad co-starred with Billy Crystal on the FX comedy series The Comedians, which premiered on April 9, 2015.

The series was canceled after one season.