Christian Hoff

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Christian Hoff
Broadway on Broadway, September 2006
Born	April 21, 1968 (1968-04-21) (age 41) San Francisco, California, USA
Occupation	Actor
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Christian Hoff (born April 21, 1968) is an American actor.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Career 1.2 Personal life 2 Work 2.1 Filmography 2.2 Stage 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Hoff was born in San Francisco, California, and later moved with his family to San Diego. At eight years old he began acting at the San Diego Junior Theater, and not long after was playing Winthrop in The Music Man.

[edit] Career

Since then he's been in numerous television, big screen and Broadway shows. Most recently, he's had a guest role as Marty on ABC's soap opera, All My Children. He was also in many regional productions. He has also guest starred on Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

He starred until 2008 in the original cast production of Jersey Boys which opened at the August Wilson theater on Broadway in 2005. His dynamic portrayal of Tommy DeVito, one of the founding members of Four Seasons musical group, won him the "Best Featured Actor in a Musical" Tony award in 2006.

Hoff holds the world record for "Most Character Voices in an Audio Book" for Tell Me How You Love the Picture, based on the career of movie producer Ed Feldman. In it, he performs 241 separate voices.^[1]

[edit] Personal life

He is married to the actress Melissa Hoff and together they have three children: Eli, Erika and Elizabeth.

[edit] Work

[edit] Filmography All My Children ER Evening Shade JAG Law & Order: Criminal Intent Millennium Party of Five Richie Rich The Commish Quincy, M.E. Quantum Leap Who's the Boss? Ugly Betty

[edit] Stage Jersey Boys (Tommy DiVito, Original Cast Album) The Who's Tommy (Pinball Lad, Original Cast Album) Jesus Christ Superstar (King Herod) George M! (George M. Cohan) The Will Rogers Follies (Will Rogers)

[edit] References

1. ^ Dave Karger (23 March 2007). "Christian Hoff is the Master of Mimicry". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20015772,00.html. Retrieved on 2008-07-10. 

[edit] External links

• Christian Hoff official website
• Christian Hoff official weblog
• Christian Hoff at the Internet Broadway Database
• Christian Hoff at the Internet Movie Database

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