Ben Platt played Evan Hansen — the socially anxious high schooler caught up in a lie involving a letter with the titular address and the suicide of one of his classmates — for the first time when he was 20.
It would be two more years before made its debut on Broadway. At 23, he became the youngest solo winner of the Tony's Best Actor in a Musical prize, and the following year, he took home a GRAMMY and an Emmy too.On the cusp of turning 28, Platt now brings to the big screen, reprising the role he's dedicated nearly a decade of his life to in a film adaptation that casts Julianne Moore as his mom and Amy Adams as the mother of the deceased.
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