Andy Karl

Andy Karl is an American actor and singer whose career has been built largely in musical theater. Raised in Baltimore, where he was born in 1974, he studied voice and music at Towson University before moving to New York in 1994. His Broadway debut came in 2000, when he took over a role in Saturday Night Fever, and he went on to originate Kyle in Legally Blonde (2007), Joe in 9 to 5, and Neville Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Three Tony Award nominations followed, for Rocky (2014), On the Twentieth Century (2015), and Groundhog Day (2017), the last of which also brought him an Olivier Award for its London run. He played Sergeant Mike Dodds on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2015 and 2016, and his further stage work includes Wicked, Jersey Boys, Into the Woods, and Moulin Rouge!