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Daveed Daniele Diggs (born January 24, 1982) is an American actor, rapper, and singer-songwriter. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping , and 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 ...
Daveed Diggs is known for his roles in Hamilton, Blindspotting, Wonder and more. IMDb provides his biography, filmography, awards, photos, videos and trivia.
- January 1, 1
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- Oakland, California, USA
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- Daveed Diggs Was A Record-Breaking Track Star In College. A dazzling performance with the rest of the cast of Hamilton at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards saw Daveed Diggs exhibiting his astonishing physicality by literally leaping off the stage, a skill he attributed, while having a talk with Boston.com, to his experience while attending Brown University.
- Daveed Diggs Has Been Rapping Since Long Before Hamilton. While his talent for dropping sick, high-speed rhymes did not make him a mainstream sensation until the Broadway debut of Hamilton, rapping has been Daveed Diggs' specialty since high school.
- Daveed Diggs’ Vocals Were Dubbed By Nas In The Get Down. Speaking of the period piece tracing the roots of hip-hop, when The Get Down's narrator, Daveed Diggs, makes his official appearance as the adult Ezekiel Figuero (otherwise known as "Books" and played as a teen by Justice Smith) you might have noticed that his voice is distinctly different from its natural sound.
- The Concept For Blindspotting Came From Daveed Diggs' Poetry Collaborations With Rafael Casal. In Blindspotting, Daveed Diggs plays a man whose nearly ended parole is threatened by tragic circumstances and the problematic actions of his best friend (Rafael Casal).
Daveed Daniele Diggs is an actor, singer, producer, writer and rapper. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping. Diggs originated the role of, and won a Grammy and Tony for, the Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the 2015 musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
- Hamilton (2020) The role which rocketed Daveed Diggs to stardom is still his best. The filmed performance of the Broadway sensation Hamilton remains Lin-Manuel Miranda's best musical.
- Blindspotting (2018) Before the 2021 series, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal wrote and starred in the indie gem Blindspotting. The film follows Diggs’ Collin, a recently incarcerated Black man who begins to evaluate the ways he and his volatile best friend are perceived through a lens of race and gentrification.
- Soul (2020) One of the best Pixar movies, Soul, follows a man who strives to reunite his soul and body following a sudden accident on the day of his big break as a jazz musician.
- The Get-Down (2016-2017) Visionary director Baz Luhrmann brought his talents to the early days of Netflix with The Get Down, a beautifully photographed, sonically rich rendering of the burgeoning disco and Hip Hop scene in New York’s South Bronx in the late 1970s.
The Tony Award-winning star of ‘Hamilton’ and the forthcoming live-action ‘Little Mermaid’ speaks to James Mottram about his provocative new Apple TV+ series ‘Extrapolations’.
