Daveed Diggs - Topic

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. Since leaving Hamilton, he played a recurring role in the television series Black-ish and co-starred in the films Wonder, Velvet Buzzsaw and The Little Mermaid. Diggs also wrote, produced, and starred in the 2018 film Blindspotting, which earned him a nomination for the Independent Sp...