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Was the youngest person to play Elder Cunningham in the musical "Book of Mormon", at only nineteen years old.

On June 11, 2017, Ben Platt won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for playing the title character in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen.

As a child, Platt attended Camp Ramah in California, one in a network of Jewish summer camps affiliated with the Conservative Judaism Movement. During an interview on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," Platt told Meyers that he was once in a Camp Ramah production of the musical "Guys and Dolls" in which he performed the lead role of Sky Masterson entirely in Hebrew.

Has a dog named Bella, after the "Barden Bellas" in Pitch Perfect.

Won the Distinguished Performance Award for "Dear Evan Hansen". The Distinguished Performance Award is presented to one performer every year, and the recipient can only receive the award once in his or her career. At 23, Ben is the youngest actor to have ever won the award [2017].