Jonathan Groff as Patrick Murray, a 29-year-old[3] video game designer[4] who grew up in suburban Denver in a rather conservative family who initially had a hard time accepting his sexuality when he came out to them on Thanksgiving back in 2005 while in his second year of college. Frankie J. Alvarez as Agustín Lanuez, 31,[3] an artist's assistant and Patrick's best friend since their college days at The University of California, Berkeley.[4] Agustín is originally from Coral Gables outside Miami, and grew up in an affluent Cuban American household from which he is estranged due to the emotional and physical abuse he suffered at the hands of his alcoholic father as a child.