Skylar Astin

actor, musician, CBS hit So Help Me Todd, known for Pitch Perfect & NBC’s Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

  • Recently starred opposite Marcia Gay Harden in CBS’ mother-son legal drama SO HELP ME TODD
  • Best known for his role as ‘Jesse Swanson’ in PITCH PERFECT and PITCH PERFECT 2 and has starred in FLOCK OF DUDES, 21 & OVER, WRECK IT RALPH, SPEECH & DEBATE and TAKING WOODSTOCK, GHOSTS OF WAR and SECRET SOCIETY OF SECOND BORN ROYALS. He recently reprised his ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST role in Roku Christmas TV Movie ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY CHRISTMAS, and recurred on GREY'S ANATOMY 
  • Well known for his role in NBC’s musical fantasy dramedy series ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST. Starred in 4th and final season of CW’s CRAZY EX GIRLFRIEND, EPIX comedy series GRAVES and TBS comedy GROUND FLOOR.
  • Voice of ‘Branch’ on Netflix’s TROLLS: THE BEAT GOES ON! for 8 seasons
  • Originated the role of ‘Georg’ in the Tony and Grammy Award winning musical SPRING AWAKENING and can be seen in an HBO documentary highlighting the SPRING AWAKENING reunion concert (May 2022). He recently returned to Off-Broadway as 'Seymour' in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (May 2022), was seen as ‘Tony’ in Carnegie Hall's special production of WEST SIDE STORY, and performed at the prestigious Hollywood Bowl as ‘Mark Cohen’ in a production of RENT
  • Released his first two singles WITHOUT YOU and WHEN YOU’RE NOT THERE in 2021 and single EASY in May 2023
  • Attended NYU where he was a student at the Tisch School for The Arts. Currently resides in Los Angeles
  • Recently starred opposite Marcia Gay Harden in CBS’ mother-son legal drama SO HELP ME TODD
  • Best known for his role as ‘Jesse Swanson’ in PITCH PERFECT and PITCH PERFECT 2 and has starred in FLOCK OF DUDES, 21 & OVER, WRECK IT RALPH, SPEECH & DEBATE and TAKING WOODSTOCK, GHOSTS OF WAR and SECRET SOCIETY OF SECOND BORN ROYALS. He recently reprised his ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST role in Roku Christmas TV Movie ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY CHRISTMAS, and recurred on GREY'S ANATOMY 
  • Well known for his role in NBC’s musical fantasy dramedy series ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST. Starred in 4th and final season of CW’s CRAZY EX GIRLFRIEND, EPIX comedy series GRAVES and TBS comedy GROUND FLOOR.
  • Voice of ‘Branch’ on Netflix’s TROLLS: THE BEAT GOES ON! for 8 seasons
  • Originated the role of ‘Georg’ in the Tony and Grammy Award winning musical SPRING AWAKENING and can be seen in an HBO documentary highlighting the SPRING AWAKENING reunion concert (May 2022). He recently returned to Off-Broadway as 'Seymour' in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (May 2022), was seen as ‘Tony’ in Carnegie Hall's special production of WEST SIDE STORY, and performed at the prestigious Hollywood Bowl as ‘Mark Cohen’ in a production of RENT
  • Released his first two singles WITHOUT YOU and WHEN YOU’RE NOT THERE in 2021 and single EASY in May 2023
  • Attended NYU where he was a student at the Tisch School for The Arts. Currently resides in Los Angeles
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Skylar Astin is a celebrated actor with a varied career across stage and screen. He can currently be seen starring in the hit CBS dramady, ‘So Help Me Todd.’ Created by Scott Prendergast, Skylar stars as ‘Todd,’ an directionless but talented private investigator, who alongside his mother, “Margaret, played Academy-award winner, Marcia Gay Harden, work together at her successful law firm. Skylar recently returned to the theater in the Off-Broadway revival of “Little Shop of Horrors” as Seymour, directed by Tony Michael Mayer. Also, he appeared in the documentary “Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known.” Astin and the rest of the cast revisited their roles and re-sparked the cultural phenomenon which put Astin on the map and went on to win eight Tony Awards in 2007. Following the release of the documentary, he performed a special rendition of “Touch Me” at this year’s Tony Awards with the original cast.

Most recently, Astin starred in two seasons of “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” alongside Jane Levy, Mary Steenburgen and Peter Gallagher.

Additional television credits include appearing opposite Golden Globe-winner Rachel Bloom in the final season of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” the Golden Globe-nominated dark comedy “Graves,” Frank Coraci's comedy “Hot Air,” “Ground Floor,” “Girls,” “Halt and Catch Fire,” “House” and “Love Bites.”
Astin is perhaps best known for his star turn as Jesse in the hit “Pitch Perfect” franchise. Additional big screen credits include “Ghosts of War,” “21 and Over” opposite Miles Teller, “Taking Woodstock” for director Ang Lee, the Sundance cult-hit “Hamlet 2,” “Flock of Dudes,” “Cavemen” and the beloved animated film “Wreck It Ralph.”

In 2020, Astin appeared in “Secret Society of Second Born Royals,” an original live action film. Astin was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award in the category of Best Actor in a Superhero Movie for his role in this film.
A native New Yorker, Astin portrayed the iconic role of Tony in Carnegie Hall’s performance of “Westside Story” and received rave reviews in Encore’s production of Kurt Vonnegut’s “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.” He was also seen in Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck’s play, “What We’re Up Against.”_ He was also seen in Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck’s play, ‘What We’re Up Against. Skylar performed alongside Sutton Foster, Patina Miller and Cheyenne Jackson among others in Stephen Sondheim’s INTO THE WOODS at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA, and he also portrayed ‘Mark Cohen’ from the Broadway musical ‘Rent’ opposite Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Hydgens, Wayne Brady, and Nicole Scherzinger._
Currently, Astin resides in Los Angeles. 
 
He can be followed on Twitter @SkylarAstin and Instagram @skylarastin.

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