Daveed Daniele Diggs was born on January 24,1982 and is an American actor, rapper, and singer-songwriter.
34 Facts About Daveed Diggs
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Daveed Diggs 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 a Musical.
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Daveed Diggs was born in Oakland, California, the son of Barbara, a social worker, and Dountes Daveed Diggs, a bus driver.
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Daveed Diggs's mother is Jewish, and his father is African-American.
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Daveed Diggs's parents named him "Daveed", the Hebrew pronunciation of David.
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Daveed Diggs is an alumnus of Berkeley High School and Brown University, where he graduated in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in theatre arts.
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Daveed Diggs was recruited by Brown for his track skills and broke the Brown Bears' school record in the 110-meter hurdles as a sophomore with a time of 14.21 seconds.
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Daveed Diggs performed in experimental theater early in his career, most notably when he was on the national tour for Marc Bamuthi Joseph's choreopoem, Word Becomes Flesh, about a nine-month pregnancy through the eyes of a young, single father.
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Daveed Diggs met playwright, composer, actor, and rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda through Thomas Kail while performing with the freestyle rap group Freestyle Love Supreme, or FLS.
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In 2012, Miranda invited Daveed Diggs to read and hear early versions of Hamilton.
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Daveed Diggs was impressed by Miranda's demos and passion for the project, and saw that the concept was a prospective use of the rap-musical medium.
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Daveed Diggs played the roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette off Broadway in 2015, continuing with the roles when the show was moved to Broadway later in the year.
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Daveed Diggs played his final performance in the show on July 15,2016.
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Daveed Diggs is the vocalist of and writer for the experimental hip-hop and rap group clipping.
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The group was founded by William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes in 2009, with Daveed Diggs joining in 2010.
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Daveed Diggs is a member of True Neutral Crew, with Brian Kinsman, Margot Padilla, and Signor Benedick the Moor.
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Daveed Diggs founded a hip hop triumvirate with Chinaka Hodge and Casal known as The Getback.
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Daveed Diggs is a member of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail's freestyle rap group Freestyle Love Supreme, or FLS, which performs across the country.
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Daveed Diggs's rapping has been featured on tracks by Busdriver, George Watsky, Rafael Casal, and Leslie Odom, Jr.
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Daveed Diggs has had recurring roles on the series The Get Down, Black-ish, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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Daveed Diggs served as an executive producer of the 2017 ABC series The Mayor.
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In early 2018, Daveed Diggs was featured in several television commercials for the Zelle digital payment service.
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Daveed Diggs starred as Frederick Douglass in the Showtime miniseries The Good Lord Bird.
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In September 2020, it was confirmed that the critically-acclaimed Casal and Daveed Diggs written film Blindspotting would be spun-off as a comedy-drama series to the same name, with Daveed Diggs set to write and executive produce.
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Daveed Diggs had his Hollywood film debut in the Disney animated film Zootopia, for which he wrote and performed the "Parlez Vous Rap".
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Daveed Diggs appeared in the 2017 film Wonder, starring Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson.
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Daveed Diggs played the schoolteacher of the protagonist, a boy with a facial deformity.
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Daveed Diggs had a voice role in the 2017 animated film Ferdinand, in which he played the character Dos.
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Alongside his lifelong friend Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred in the 2018 film Blindspotting, which premiered at Sundance in January 2018.
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Daveed Diggs received the Atlanta Film Festival's inaugural Innovator Award in April, prior to the film's theatrical release on July 27,2018.
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Daveed Diggs plays Collin, a felon living in Oakland, as he tries to get through the last three days of his year-long probation without incident.
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Daveed Diggs received critical praise for his performance in the film.
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Daveed Diggs is currently set to voice Sebastian in Disney's live-action film The Little Mermaid.
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Daveed Diggs is in a relationship with Emmy Raver-Lampman, whom he met in 2015 when they were performing together in Hamilton.