Ben Platt may have born September 24, 1993, in Los Angeles, California, the
movie capital of the United States, but his big break came in musical theater.
Before the age of ten he appeared in a west coast production of The Music Man,
and in 2004 he was cast in a mounting of Mame at The Hollywood Bowl. He enrolled
at New York City’s Columbia University but left there to star as Elder Arnold
Cunningham in The Book of Mormon on Broadway. During this period, he had his
first big role on screen in Pitch Perfect. All of this set him up for his
career-establishing performance as the tit...