Nathan Lee Graham

Nathan Lee Graham (born September 9, 1968) is an American actor and singer.

He has been the originator of over 17 roles on stage and screen. He is most known for the films Zoolander, Zoolander 2, Sweet Home Alabama, and Hitch. Currently he plays Hermes in the North American tour of the musical Hadestown.

On the small screen, he has been seen in The Comeback, Scrubs, Absolutely Fabulous, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Broad City, and as Bernard in the Fox comedy LA to Vegas. He also appeared as François on the CW Riverdale spin-off Katy Keene and as Draque Noir on the Hulu series Woke. Graham was seen as Clive DeWitt in the 2023 feature film Theater Camp.

His stage appearances include the original Broadway casts of Tony Award and Grammy Award-nominated The Wild Party and in the original Broadway cast of the Tony Award-nominated Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Graham received a 2017 Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for The View UpStairs. In 2016, he received the IRNE Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play for The Colored Museum. Graham also received a Drama League Award nomination for the role of Rey-Rey in the off-Broadway production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's Wig Out. Graham also won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Performer in a Musical for the Los Angeles premiere of The Wild Party in 2005. In 2005, he earned a Best Classical Album Grammy Award for Songs of Innocence and of Experience as a soloist.

Nathan Lee Graham is a graduate of Webster University in St. Louis, MO. Graham won the José Esteban Muñoz Award from CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY in 2017, recognizing his activism promoting queer studies outside of academia.