Guest Cast
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Damian McGinty
Glee character: Rory Flanagan
Full name: Damian Joseph McGinty Jr.
Date of birth: September 9, 1992
Hometown: Derry, Northern Ireland, UK
Currently residing in: Los Angeles
Education: Tenafly High School; was accepted to the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, but chose to continue working on stage.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
Date of birth: September 27, 1972
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Currently residing in: New York, NY, and London, England
Education: UC Santa Barbara
Gwyneth Paltrow — maybe the name rings a bell? — can seemingly do it all. She earned an Oscar for her breakthrough performance in Shakespeare in Love, and she displayed her pipes at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony, performing “Coming Home,” her... -
Jonathan Groff
Glee character: Jesse St. James
Date of birth: March 26, 1985
Hometown: Ronks, Pennsylvania
Currently residing in: Los Angeles
Education: Conestoga Valley High School
Jonathan makes his debut on Glee in the second half of the first season as the male lead of Vocal Adrenaline, but this is hardly his first time working with several of the cast members. He starred with Lea Michele (Rachel) in the... -
Idina Menzel
Glee character: Shelby Cocoran
Date of birth: May 30, 1971
Birth name: Idina Kim Mentzel
Hometown: Long Island, NY
Currently residing in: Los Angeles
Education: NYU, B.F.A. in Drama
Like many of the Glee cast members, Idina has an extensive background in theatre. Like, really extensive. Her first professional theatre role was in the original cast of Rent, which landed on Broadway and earned her... -
Kristin Chenoweth
Glee character: April Rhodes
Full name: Kristin Dawn Chenoweth
Date of birth: July 24, 1968
Hometown: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Currently residing in: Los Angeles and New York City
Education: Broken Arrow Senior High School; Oklahoma City University, B.A. in musical theater and an MA in opera performance
Twitter: KChenoweth
Kristin is an acclaimed singer, actress, and author. In 1999, she won Tony,... -
Michael Hitchcock
Glee character: Dalton Rumba
Full name: Michael Hitchcock
Date of birth: July 28, 1958
Hometown: Defiance, Ohio (grew up in Western Springs, Illinois)
Currently residing in: Los Angeles
Education: Northwestern University's School of Speech, B.S.; U.C.L.A.'s film school, M.F.A.
Michael is an actor, screenwriter, and television producer. As an actor, he appeared in Christopher Guest's Waiting for... -
Eve
Glee character: Grace Hitchens
Full name: Eve Jihan Jeffers
Date of birth: November 10, 1978
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Education: Graduated from high school
Eve started rapping in high school as part of an all-female group called EDGP (pronounced Egypt), and she later went solo as "Eve of Destruction." She has four albums: Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady (1999); Scorpion ... -
Molly Shannon
Glee character: Brenda Castle
Date of birth: September 16, 1964
Hometown: Shaker Heights, Ohio
Currently residing in: Los Angeles
Education: Hawken School
Molly is an actress and comedian who is best known for her years on Saturday Night Live (she replaced Janeane Garofalo after she left mid-season in 1995). Other television work includes episodes of Seinfeld, Will & Grace, Sex & the... -
Neil Patrick Harris
At one point, How I Met Your Mother star and Glee guest star Neil Patrick Harris seemed destined to be remembered solely for his iconic child role in the television series Doogie Howser, M.D., for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination in 1989. Not that being remembered for the now-beloved dramedy would have been the worst fate in the world, but boy, has he ever proven any naysayers wrong...
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Olivia Newton-John
Glee character: Herself
Date of birth: September 26, 1948
Hometown: Cambridge, England
Currently residing in: Los Angeles
Olivia starred in a little film musical you may have heard of called Grease. Ring any bells? It only became the highest-grossing movie musical and one of the most successful film soundtracks of all time! No big deal. The film earned her a Golden Globe nomination, the... -
Josh Groban
Glee character: Himself
Date of birth: February 27, 1981
Hometown: Los Angeles
Education: Interlochen Center for the Arts
Josh has sold almost 20 million albums in the US, and each of his four solo albums has gone multi-platinum in the US. What an underachiever! His 2003 album Closer was his first to reach No. 1 and contained his cover of "You Raise Me Up," which became popular on the adult... -
Victor Garber
Glee character: Will's father
Full name: Victor Joseph Garber
Date of birth: March 16, 1949
Hometown: London, Ontario, Canada
Victor Garber began acting at age 9 and studied at the University of Toronto's Hart House when he was 16. In 1967, after a period working as a folk singer, he formed a folk band called The Sugar Shoppe. We're immediately going to stop what we're doing and look them up on... -
Debra Monk
Glee character: Will's mother
Full name: Debra Monk
Date of birth: February 17, 1949
Hometown: Middletown, Ohio
Education: Frostburg State University
Debra is best known for co-writing and starring in the musical Pump Boys and Dinettes, which started off-off Broadway and ended up earning a Tony nomination for Best Musical in 1982. She won a Tony Award in 1993 for Best Actress in a Play for Redwood... -
John Lloyd Young
Glee character: Henri St. Pierre
Full name: John Lloyd Mills Young
Date of birth: July 4, 1975
Hometown: Sacramento, California
Currently residing in: Los Angeles
Education: Brown University (graduated in 1998), B.A. in Theatre Arts
While at Brown, John performed lead roles in Company, Once on This Island, and Sweeney Todd. He later won a 2006 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — as well as Drama... -
Sarah Drew
Glee character: Suzy Pepper
Full name: Sarah Drew
Date of birth: October 1, 1980
Hometown: Charlottesville, Virginia (grew up in Stony Brook, New York)
Currently residing in: Los Angeles
Education: University of Virginia
Sarah is best known for her role as Hannah Rogers in The WB's drama Everwood. She also voiced Stacy Rowe on MTV's animated series Daria and appeared in the movie Radio and the...
