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Santino Fontana Biography

Birth Place:
Stockton, California, United States
Profession
Actor, vocalist, composer

Fast Facts

  • Made his Broadway debut in Sunday in the Park with George in 2007
  • Won a 2010 Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • Sang "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story during his audition for Frozen; he recorded his part as Prince Hans in just five sessions scheduled around his Broadway run in Cinderella
  • Sang with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir three times in the space of a year in 2014-15, a first for any guest artist
  • Owns the action figure of his Prince Hans character that "looks nothing like me," says Fontana
  • Ended his run in Cinderella on Broadway just three weeks before his eventual wife, Jessica Hershberg, would play Ella twice a week in the same show

Relationships

  • Jessica Hershberg -- Wife