San Diego Junior Theatre Alumni

Christian Hoff

Christian Hoff began his stage and screen career at age eight. Performing became an instant passion and he began training as an actor, singer and dancer. When he was eleven, he followed his Dad and Brother into music and bought his first guitar. By age twelve he was a member of three professional actors unions: Actors Equity Association, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild. His first break on screen was dancing a pas de deux with Shirley Maclaine in her television special Every Little Movement, then on stage in the original Los Angeles company of Evita under the direction of Harold Prince. Christian balanced a family life in San Diego, California while maintaining his theatrical career in Hollywood, bridging the transitions from child actor to young adult and beyond with unique perspective. During these formidable years he utilized his diverse talent and experience to continue doing what he loved best with guest appearances and regular roles in television and film, commercials and regional stage productions. Notable career highlights over the decades include portraying Walt Disney in One Man’s Dream, providing the voice of Richie Rich in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series of the same name, hosting the cable series Eyes and Ears Inside Disney, playing Shelley Winters bad-boy step-son in her one and only sitcom Shelley, replacing David Arquette as Frank-n-Furter in the Los Angeles production of The Rocky Horror Show at the Tiffany Theater, touring as King Herod with Sebastian Bach in Jesus Christ Superstar, his Broadway debut in The Who’s Tommy (original cast album) with Michael Cerveris and his Broadway return, starring as Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys (original cast album). Christian has always been drawn to “real life” characters both on screen: as Walt Disney in One Man’s Dream, as Kevin Anderson in Just A Regular Kid, An AIDS Story with Florence Henderson and Ronny Cox, as James “Moog” in Honor Thy Mother with Sharon Gless, as Sid Stockdale in In Love and War with James Woods and onstage: as George M. Cohan in George M!, as Will Rogers in The Will Rogers Follies, and Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys. Christian has been a guitarist and singer in a number of bands, sung the national anthem at major sporting events and has performed on The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Late Show with David Letterman. Christian is father to the precious Eli, Erika and Baby Elizabeth and husband to actress Melissa Hoff. “Soli Deo Gloria.” http://www.christianhoff.com

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