2.2 2002–2012: Broadway debut and The Book of Mormon.
2.1 1994–2002: Early career and voice acting.
He has accumulated numerous voice acting credits since the beginning of his career including currently, Matthew MacDell on Netflix's Big Mouth and William Clockwell on Amazon Prime's Invincible. In 2019, he began starring in Black Monday on Showtime. In the 2010s, he began working as a screen actor most notably, he starred in the 2012 NBC sitcom The New Normal and played the recurring role of Elijah in HBO's Girls (2012–2017). Other Broadway credits include Hairspray (2005), Jersey Boys (2009), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2010), Hamilton (2015), and The Boys in the Band (2018). He received his second Tony nomination in 2017 for his performance as Whizzer in the 2016 Broadway revival of Falsettos. Rannells is best known for originating the role of Elder Price in the 2011 Broadway musical The Book of Mormon for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Keep scrolling for everything to know about Under the Banner of Heaven.Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater AlbumĪndrew Scott Rannells (born August 23, 1978) is an American film, stage, television and voice actor. “I thought if I had seven, eight, nine hours, I could absolutely do it.” What do you think?’ That was a very happy day,” Black recalled in the same interview. “The day that Brian Grazer called me and said, ‘Hey, the miniseries is a legitimate form again. Initially, the show was conceived as a movie, but the book proved too unwieldy to adapt into one two-hour film. “It was like a lightning strike for me, reading that book.”Īfter reading it, the Oscar winner knew he wanted to bring it to the screen, though it took him a while to get the ball rolling. “For the first time, so much of my own history, my ancestry and the answers to why things were the way they were when they didn’t seem to fulfill the basic tenets of Mormonism - meaning they didn’t seem to make the family stronger - now I started to understand why and where that patriarchal structure came from,” he told IndieWire in April. But on the whole, it was a great bonding experience for all of us.”ĭustin Lance Black, who wrote the show’s first three episodes, grew up in the Mormon church and has revealed how Krakauer’s book inspired him to look more deeply at the religion. Also … we did a lot of hiking, which, coming from London, I’m a city gal. “We ate so much food!” she told Uproxx in April. “I really needed to break from that world and be as ordinary and as kind of restful as possible so that I could come back the next day and throw myself back into that very, very dark, subterranean kind of hellscape that we were having to inhabit as these characters.”ĭaisy Edgar-Jones, who plays Brenda, said that downtime was very important during filming, which took place in Calgary, Canada, near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. “I would leave work at work for the first time,” he explained to Us. The Hacksaw Ridge actor is known for his deep commitment to his roles, but Under the Banner of Heaven‘s dark subject matter forced him to step back in a way he hadn’t before. I spent a lot of time with Mormons: ex-Mormons, gay Mormons, bishop Mormons, detective Mormons.” “I researched a lot and I did all of my preparation in a really deep way. “I prepared heavy in the lead-up to shooting,” Garfield exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the show’s April 28 premiere. Jeb, a devout Mormon, deals with a crisis of faith as he learns how the Lafferty family’s own beliefs may have led to Brenda and Erica’s deaths. Jeb is investigating the real-life 1984 murder of Brenda Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter, Erica. The Oscar nominee plays Detective Jeb Pyre in the FX on Hulu drama, which is based on Jon Krakauer‘s 2003 nonfiction book of the same name. Andrew Garfield is the latest star to get in the true crime game with his new series, Under the Banner of Heaven.