Nathan Lee Graham

Nathan Lee Graham is an American actor and singer born on September 9, 1968, in St. Louis, Missouri, where he later attended and graduated from Webster University. His career spans Broadway, film, television, and regional theater, with credits extending from 1996 to 2021 on the Broadway stage.

Graham's Broadway work includes appearances in four productions: Show Boat, The Wild Party, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, and Hadestown. He was part of the original Broadway cast of The Wild Party, which earned both Tony Award and Grammy Award nominations, and the original Broadway cast of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which received a Tony Award nomination. In 2022, he portrayed Hermes in the North American tour of Hadestown.

His stage work beyond Broadway has also drawn recognition. The Los Angeles premiere of The Wild Party in 2005 earned him a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Performer in a Musical. He received a Drama League Award nomination for playing Rey-Rey in the off-Broadway production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out, and a 2017 Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for The View UpStairs. In 2016, the IRNE Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play recognized his work in The Colored Museum.

On screen, Graham is known for his appearances in the films Zoolander, Zoolander 2, Sweet Home Alabama, Hitch, and Theater Camp. His television credits include The Comeback, Scrubs, Absolutely Fabulous, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and Broad City. He held recurring roles as Bernard in the Fox comedy LA to Vegas, as François in the CW series Katy Keene, and as Draque Noir in the Hulu series Woke.

Among his additional honors, Graham earned a Best Classical Album Grammy Award in 2005 as a soloist on Songs of Innocence and of Experience. In 2017, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY presented him with the José Esteban Muñoz Award for his activism promoting queer studies outside of academia. In June 2025, he received the Vanguard Award at the Critics Choice Association's Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema and Television. That same year, it was announced that Graham would appear alongside Matt Bomer, Nathan Lane, and Linda Lavin in Mid-Century Modern, a television series created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan.