John Lloyd Young

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John Lloyd Young
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Born
John Lloyd Mills Young

(1975-07-04) July 4, 1975 (age 49)
Sacramento, California, U.S.
Education Brown University
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
Years active2002–present
Website johnlloydyoung.com

John Lloyd Mills Young (born July 4, 1975) is an American actor. [1] In 2006, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role as Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys . He is the only American actor to date to have received a Lead Actor in a Musical Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Award for a Broadway debut. [2] Young sang lead vocals on the Grammy Award-winning Jersey Boys cast album, certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Young reprised his role as Frankie Valli in Warner Brothers' film adaptation of Jersey Boys, directed by Clint Eastwood and released June 20, 2014.

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Young was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. He was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on November 21, 2013. [3] He resigned from the President's Committee in August, 2017, co-signing a letter of resignation that said in reference to President Trump, "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions." [4]

Early life

Young was born in Sacramento, California, the son of Rosemarie Joan (Cianciola) and Karl Bruce Young, a Strategic Air Command tanker-squadron commander. [5] His mother died when he was two years old. His father had English, Welsh and German ancestry, and his mother was of Italian descent. [6] [7] He was raised partly in Plattsburgh, New York, attending Plattsburgh High School and acting in their drama department. He is a graduate of Brown University. [8]

Career

After moving to New York City, Young worked his way up through the ranks of the theater scene with roles in numerous regional and off-Broadway plays, including the New York-area premiere of Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy with actor John Mahoney; "Charlie" in Julia Jordan's The Summer of the Swans ; "Moritz" in the Douglas Langworthy translation of Wedekind's Spring Awakening ; and "Claudio" in Rinne Groff's The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem for the Target Margin Theatre.

He was named one of the Best Featured Actors in a Play by the New Jersey Star-Ledger as "Danny Saunders" in Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok's dramatic adaptation of Potok's book, The Chosen, opposite Theodore Bikel, directed by David Ellenstein.[ citation needed ]

He failed to land the part of Frankie Valli in the pre-Broadway run of Jersey Boys , but a year later and after several more auditions, he was asked to headline the show on Broadway, where he played the role for over two years. During his tenure at Jersey Boys , which now has several companies playing worldwide, Young performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, the New York City Marathon, New Year's Eve in Times Square, Yankee Stadium and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Young's run with Jersey Boys concluded on November 9, 2007, [9] [10] followed shortly thereafter by a sold-out-in-a-day solo concert debut at Lincoln Center.

After moving to Los Angeles, Young starred as Marius in an all-star production of Les Misérables at the Hollywood Bowl and was the first guest star invited to appear on Glee .

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Young in 2010

Young debuted his visual art in May 2010 in "Food for Thought", a show benefiting AIDS Project Los Angeles, at Willis Wonderland, the home of Young's friend, Grammy-winning songwriter Allee Willis. Young's art is represented by Hollywood's Hamilton-Selway Fine Art Gallery. His first art commission was for famed Beverly Hills, CA, restaurant, Spago.

Young's debut album, "My Turn...", was released on July 3, 2012. The album was executive-produced by Dona R. Miller and Young's Under the Skyway Productions, with production from Tommy Faragher of FOX's hit show, Glee , whose cover of "Teenage Dream" was the first song from the show to reach NO. 1 on the Billboard Charts. The album was expanded and re-released with eight new tracks in 2014.

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Young at the USO of Metropolitan Washington's 31st Annual Awards Dinner, 2012

He made his debut at New York's Cafe Carlyle in February 2013. Young reprised his Frankie Valli role in the Broadway production of Jersey Boys from July 3 - September 30, 2012. [11] In March 2014, Young made his West End Theatre debut, starring in the musical's London production. He reprised the role in director Clint Eastwood's film adaptation of Jersey Boys , which was released in June 2014.

Young's extensive charity work includes frequent appearances with and support of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, amfAR, Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang, AIDS Project Los Angeles and the United Service Organization (USO). Young has been a member of the American Civil Liberties Union since 1995.

He is a practitioner and student of Chinese Chan Buddhism.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Tony Awards

Drama Desk Awards

Outer Critics Circle Awards

Theatre World Awards

Grammy Awards

Drama League Award

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  2. ↑ Vargas, Robert (December 13, 2017). "Jersey Boys Star John Lloyd Young Will Go Heart to Heart at Café Carlyle". Playbill. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  3. ↑ Luppi, Kathleen (February 11, 2015). "From 'Jersey' to Costa Mesa, singer loves songs of the '60s". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Todo un comité de Trump renuncia por su "retórica de odio" tras disturbios en Charlottesville" [All on Trump committee resigns for its "hate rhetoric" following riots in Charlottesville]. El Diario La Prensa (in Spanish). August 17, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Valli Boy". Press-Republican . Plattsburgh, New York. June 20, 2014. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ Sokol, Robert (July 30, 2009). "Jersey voice: Tony winner John Lloyd Young is straight up on gay roles". Bay Area Reporter . Retrieved July 22, 2013. John Lloyd, as he prefers, was born on the Fourth of July in Sacramento.
  7. ↑ McKinley, Jesse (November 6, 2005). "March of the Falsetto: Out of the Shower, Onto Broadway". The New York Times . Archived from the original on July 4, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2018– via John Lloyd Young.com.
  8. ↑ "Big Man in Town". www.brownalumnimagazine.com. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  9. ↑ Hernandez, Ernio (November 21, 2007). "Broadway's Frankie Valli — John Lloyd Young — Bids Farewell to Jersey Boys". Playbill. Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
  10. ↑ "John Lloyd Young's Final 'Jersey Boys' Sign-In". BroadwayWorld. November 25, 2007. Retrieved November 6, 2008.
  11. ↑ Bacalzo, Dan (May 9, 2012). "John Lloyd Young Returns to Broadway's Jersey Boys". Theater Mania. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
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