Nick Kroll

Nick Kroll is an American comedian, actor, writer and voice actor. He is widely known for his role as Rodney Ruxin on FX's football-themed comedy The League, his eponymous sketch show Kroll Show, and the Netflix animation Big Mouth, which he co-created.

He was born on June 5, 1978 in Rye, New York. His father is Kroll Inc., who works in corporate investigation and risk consulting. The founder of the company is Jules Kroll. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2001; Here, his major was history and his minors were art and Spanish. After graduation, he improved himself in New York's stand-up and improvisation scenes.

Television and stage

Kroll played pompous lawyer Ruxin for seven seasons on The League, which started in 2009 and ended in 2015. He played many different characters, both as the creator and the leading actor, in the Kroll Show, which was broadcast on Comedy Central between 2013 and 2015; With this program, he received the rising star award of the Just for Laughs festival.

The show Oh, Hello, based on the character of two elderly New Yorkers, which he developed with John Mulaney, moved to Broadway in 2016 and was released as a special program on Netflix the following year.

Big Mouth, which started in 2017 and ran until 2025, was an animated series that tackled adolescence with straightforward humor. Kroll voiced many characters in this production, especially Nick Birch and the hormone monster Maurice; the series earned him multiple Emmy nominations. A spin-off series set in the same universe, Human Resources, was released in 2022–2023.

In 2023, he was among the creators of the sketch series History of the World, Part II, which was broadcast on Hulu.

Cinema

In cinema, there are both voice-over and in front of the camera jobs. He voiced in the animations Sing (2016) and Sing 2 (2021), as well as in the movie Captain Underpants (2017). He also starred in films such as Loving (2016), Don't Worry Darling (2022) and Red One (2024), which are about the ban on interracial marriage.

Kroll continues his work as a name that combines character humor with writing and production and continues to produce both on stage and on screen.