Jeremy Pope

Jeremy Pope (born July 9, 1992) is an American Broadway theater performer, actor, and singer. He became the sixth person in Tony Award history to be nominated in two categories for separate performances during the same year, when he received nominations for Choir Boy and Ain't Too Proud in 2019, the latter of which also earned him a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album nomination.

In 2020, Pope starred in the Netflix miniseries Hollywood, which earned him a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.

An Orlando native, he attended Timber Creek High School and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He made his Broadway debut in 2018 in the play Choir Boy, soon followed by a role in the musical Ain't Too Proud. In 2019, he became the sixth actor in Tony Award history to be nominated in two categories during the same year, garnering a Best Actor in a Play nomination for Choir Boy and a Best Featured Actor in a Musical nomination for Ain't Too Proud. In 2019, he landed a lead role in Ryan Murphy's new Netflix series Hollywood.

Pope is openly gay. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he explained how he related to playing the character Pharus Jonathan Young in Choir Boy because "he himself was growing up black and gay."

Film

Television

A singer known for his passionate vocal style, Pope credits his music aspirations to his early years of singing in church, as well as during theater productions and talent shows at school. He also cites music as a constant mainstay in his life. Outside of his acting and Broadway theatre work, he writes and records his own music. His music gained attention with his first independent single, the self-written, acoustic pop-oriented "Wait For You," which also debuted as a YouTube videoin 2015. In 2018, he independently released his second single, the R&B-flavored "New Love," for which he also produced its music video in 2017. That same year, in 2018, he released his third independent single, "Feel So Good" and produced its music video. He is a featured vocalist on "Be Great," the 2019 single by actress and singer Laura Dreyfuss (under her pseudonym Loladre). He is a principal soloist on Broadway cast recordings for The View UpStairs and Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations, which garnered a Grammy Award nomination in 2019, in the category of Best Musical Theater Album. Though he has covered music by several artists, including Lady Gaga and Maroon 5, he is said to be working on an EP with accompanying production work from various producers. On May 7, 2020, he released his fourth independent single, a cover of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time."

Singles Discography

In June 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first LGBTQ Pride parade, Queerty named him among the fifty heroes “leading the nation toward equality, acceptance, and dignity for all people”.