1. Matthew James Morrison was born on October 30,1978 and is an American actor, dancer, and singer, best known for his role as Will Schuester on the Fox television show Glee.
28 Facts About Matthew Morrison
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Matthew Morrison has been a judge on two reality dance competition shows on TV: The Greatest Dancer on BBC One, and So You Think You Can Dance on Fox.
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Matthew Morrison was raised in Chico, and has Scottish and English ancestry.
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Matthew Morrison was a member of Buena Park Youth theater, located in Buena Park.
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Matthew Morrison was part of the Collaborative Arts Project 21 and the Orange County School of the Arts, while at the Los Alamitos High School campus.
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Matthew Morrison attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for two years before dropping out and joining the Broadway adaptation of Footloose.
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In 1999, while still at NYU, Matthew Morrison appeared on Late Show with David Letterman and Total Request Live as one of five members of the fictional parody boy band "Fresh Step", an act that was conceived by several Late Show writers.
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The choreographer hired for "Fresh Step" was the choreographer for the Broadway musical Footloose, and helped Matthew Morrison to get cast in Footloose later that year.
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Matthew Morrison dropped out of NYU to begin appearing in the show.
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In 2001, Matthew Morrison was recruited to join the boy band LMNT, turning it from a trio into a quartet.
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Matthew Morrison stayed in the band for one year, then left and was replaced by Jonas Persch; he left before the recording of the group's sole album, All Sides.
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Matthew Morrison briefly appeared in a revival of The Rocky Horror Show in 2002.
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Matthew Morrison then starred in the original cast of the musical Hairspray as Link Larkin from its opening in 2002 through January 2004.
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In 2005, Matthew Morrison starred as Fabrizio Nacarelli in the Broadway premiere of Adam Guettel's musical The Light in the Piazza; he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance.
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Matthew Morrison started working in television, guest-starring on shows such as Ghost Whisperer, Numbers, CSI: Miami, and Hack.
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Matthew Morrison appeared as Sir Harry in the 2005 ABC-TV production of Once Upon a Mattress, starring Tracey Ullman, Zooey Deschanel and Carol Burnett.
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Matthew Morrison earned a Drama Desk Nomination for his role in the Off Broadway show 10 Million Miles which ran at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2007.
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Matthew Morrison left the production at the end of 2008 and in early 2009 returned to California to shoot the first season of Glee.
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Matthew Morrison played Will Schuester in the Fox Broadcasting television series Glee, which had its television preview on May 19,2009.
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Matthew Morrison made his directorial debut with the third season's ninth episode.
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In January 2010, Matthew Morrison signed a solo record deal with Mercury Records.
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On July 7,2016, Matthew Morrison appeared alongside Megan Hilty in a summer evening of Broadway and other songs with The New York Pops at the Forest Hills Stadium in Forest Hills, Queens.
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Matthew Morrison was a "dance captain" on BBC One's The Greatest Dancer, which aired for two seasons in 2019 and 2020, alongside Cheryl, Oti Mabuse and, in the second season, Todrick Hall as well.
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Amidst claims that he had sent an inappropriate text message, Matthew Morrison posted an Instagram video in June 2022, where he claimed that his messages were just friendly, and that he was dismissed for other reasons.
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Matthew Morrison is slated to star in the independent thriller From Embers.
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Matthew Morrison became engaged to actress Chrishell Stause on December 9,2006.
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On June 27,2013, Elton John helped Matthew Morrison announce that he and Puente were engaged.
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On March 16,2021, Matthew Morrison used his Instagram again to announce that he and Puente were expecting their second child together following a series of miscarriages.