Daveed Diggs

Daveed Daniele Diggs (born January 24, 1982) is an American actor, rapper, singer, songwriter, screenwriter, and film producer. 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 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical in 2016. 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 (2016–2018) and co-starred in the films Wonder (2017) and Velvet Buzzsaw (2019). Diggs also wrote, produced, and starred in the 2018 film Blindspotting, which earned him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. As of 2020, he stars in the television adaptation of Snowpiercer.