Christian Dominique Borle (born October 1, 1973 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actor, best known for theatre of which his roles are extensive, but also was a lead in the TV show Smash. He is of French heritage but from Pennsylvania and after seeing Star Wars wanted to be a comic artist until participating in a school play in high school. He then studied acting at college, where he began dating future (ex-)wife Sutton Foster, and moved to New York.
We're not going to say that the rest is history because anecdotally his first acting gig was as a Macy's elf. His next was as a pinball kid in a German production of Tommy. One of his first big Broadway roles was replacing Gavin Creel in Thoroughly Modern Millie to be acting alongside Sutton Foster from 2002, in 2017 he joined the cast of Foster's show Younger. He also has quite a resemblance with Tim Curry, his Spamalot co-star, at times. He has two Tony Awards.
Selected Theatrical roles:
- West Side Story as Riff (National Tour, 1997-98)
- Footloose as Willard (Broadway)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway)
- Thoroughly Modern Millie as Jimmy (Broadway)
- Spamalot as Not Dead Fred/The Historian/Minstrel/Prince Herbert (Broadway, OBC)
- Legally Blonde as Emmett (Broadway, OBC; Tony nomination)
- On the Town as Ozzie (NYC Center)
- Peter And The Starcatcher as Black Stache (Broadway, OBC; Tony win)
- Mary Poppins as Bert (Broadway)
- Angels in America as Prior (Off-Broadway)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Adolfo (Lincoln Center)
- Something Rotten! as The Bard (Broadway, OBC; Tony win)
- Falsettos as Marvin (Broadway, ORC; Tony nomination)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Willy Wonka (Broadway, OBC)
Selected Filmography:
- Stonewall (1995)
- Johnny and the Sprites as the Bridge Troll
- The Bounty Hunter as Caddy (2010)
- Smash as Tom Levitt (2012-13)
- The Sound of Music Live! as Max Detweiler (2013)
- Masters of Sex as Frank Masters (2014)
- Sofia the First as Slickwell (2014)
- Peter Pan Live! as Smee/George Darling (2014)
- The Good Wife as Carter Schmidt (2013-15)
- Blackhat as Jeff Robichaud (2015)
- Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life as Carl (2016)
- Vampirina as Rusty Topsail (2018)
- Younger as Don Ridley (2018-)
- The Good Fight as Carter Schmidt (2018-)
