Nick Kroll

Nick Kroll (born June 5, 1978), born Nicholas Kroll, is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is known for the FX comedy series The League (2009-2015), for creating and starring in the Comedy Central series Kroll Show (2013-2015), and for starring in and co-creating the animated Netflix series Big Mouth (2017-2025), Human Resources (2022-2023) and Mating Season (2026), as well as the Hulu sketch comedy series History of the World, Part II (2023). He has acted or voice-acted in films such as I Love You, Man (2009), Get Him to the Greek (2010), Sausage Party and Sing (both 2016), The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019), The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) and Red One (2024).

Kroll was born in Rye, New York, the youngest child of Lynn and Jules Kroll. His father is a businessman who founded the corporate investigations and risk consulting firm Kroll Inc. He grew up in a Conservative Jewish family and attended high school at Rye Country Day School. In 2001, Kroll graduated from Georgetown University, describing himself as a history major who minored in art and Spanish. Early in his career, he contributed writing for Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show and MTV's Human Giant, and in late 2008 he toured with Aziz Ansari on the Glow in the Dark comedy tour.

Kroll's live work is a mix of stand-up, sketch and characters, and in 2011 Comedy Central aired his stand-up special Thank You Very Cool. He has performed characters such as Bobby Bottleservice, Ref Jeff, Fabrice Fabrice, and Gil Faizon of The Oh, Hello Show, who he created with writing partner John Mulaney. He was honored with the Breakout Star of the Year award at the 2013 Just For Laughs festival. With Mulaney he toured The Oh, Hello Show, which premiered on Broadway on September 23, 2016, ran for six months and was released on Netflix in 2017. In 2017, Kroll co-created, wrote, and starred in Big Mouth, in which he voices Nick, Coach Steve, Maurice the Hormone Monster and several other characters.