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Daveed Diggs
Musical theatre performer (rapper/singer, bass-baritone range)
Born January 24, 1982 in Oakland, California, United States (44 years old)
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Daveed Daniele Diggs is an American actor, rapper, and singer-songwriter. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping. In 2015, he originated the dual roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton, for which he won a 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical. Along with the main cast of Hamilton, he was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in the same year.
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Career Trajectory
Daveed Diggs burst onto Broadway in 2015 as the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton, a dual role that showcased his virtuosic ability to blend rapid-fire rap with dramatic nuance and won him the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical. Since that career-defining moment, he has resisted typecasting, building a multidisciplinary practice as a screenwriter and producer (Blindspotting), television actor (Snowpiercer), voice performer (Soul, The Little Mermaid), and committed hip-hop artist with the experimental group Clipping, establishing himself as one of contemporary theatre's most intellectually restless and creatively ambitious performers.
Career Highlight
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for originating the dual roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton (2016)
At a Glance
- Voice
- Musical theatre performer (rapper/singer, bass-baritone range)
- Nationality
- United States
- Born
- 1982 · Oakland, California, United States
- Active since
- 2016
Training & Education
Brown University
Engagements
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