Santino Fontana

Santino Fontana began his career playing Hamlet at the Guthrie at 23. In 2019, Santino won the Tony Award, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his performance in Tootsie. He is widely known for lending his voice to the villainous ‘Prince Hans’ in Disney’s Academy Award winning animated feature, Frozen. He was also seen in Universal Studio’s Sisters, opposite Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. His independent film work includes the romantic comedy Off The Menu, psychological thriller Impossible Monsters, and comedy Papercop, for which he won a Best Actor Award at the Williamsburg International Independent Film Festival.  He will soon appear in the feature Lost And Found In Cleveland opposite Martin Sheen and Dennis Haysbert, as well as Stalking The Bogeyman and the Tribeca comedy Billy & Brenda and the Pothos Plant.

On television, Santino was recently seen on“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”  He also starred on CW’s comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” as fan favorite, ‘Greg’ and NBC’s drama series “Shades of Blue,” opposite Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta, simultaneously.  Other television credits include “Fosse/Verdon,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “The Good Wife,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Gifted Man,” “Made In Jersey,” “Evil,” and “Royal Pains,” as well as the popular web series, “Submissions Only.”  

He’s received the Tony, two Drama Desks, an Outer Critics Circle, a Lortel, an Obie, and the Clarence Derwent Award for his work in both plays and musicals. Broadway credits include Tootsie, Cinderella, Hello, Dolly! opposite Bernadette Peters, Act One opposite Tony Shalhoub, The Importance of Being Earnest (Clarence Derwent Award), A View from the Bridge, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drama Desk Award), Billy Elliot, and Sunday in the Park with George. Off-Broadway credits include Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet (Lortel, Obie) and the original revival cast of The Fantasticks. He also starred as ‘John Adams’ in 1776 opposite John Larroquette, ‘Elliot Rosewater’ in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater opposite James Earl Jones, and ‘Niko’ in Zorba opposite John Turturro, all for New York City Center Encores!.