Daveed Daniele Diggs is an American actor, rapper, singer, and songwriter. He originated the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton, for which he won both a Grammy Award and Tony Award. Since leaving Hamilton, he played a recurring role in the television series Black-ish and co-starred in the films Wonder and Velvet Buzzsaw. He also wrote, produced, and starred in the 2018 film Blindspotting. As of 2020, he stars in the TV adaptation of Snowpiercer.
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Daveed Daniele Diggs is an American actor, rapper, singer, and songwriter. In 2015, he originated the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton, for which he won both a Grammy Award and Tony Award. Since leaving Hamilton, he played a recurring role in the television series Black-ish and co-starred in the films Wonder and Velvet Buzzsaw. He 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 TV adaptation of Snowpiercer. Diggs was born in Oakland, California, the son of Barbara, a social worker, and Dountes Diggs, a bus driver.
His mother is Jewish, and his father is African-American. His parents named him ‘Daveed’, the Hebrew pronunciation of David. He is the vocalist of and writer for the experimental hip-hop and rap group Clipping, with Diggs joining in 2010. In 2012, he released his first solo album, Small Things, on Small Things Records. In 2010, he founded a hip hop triumvirate known as The Getbackbackback, later became a collaborative ensemble composed of Dodge, Hodge, Casal, Decibels, and Max Miller-Logan. In 2013, he made an album with Rafael Casal titled The BOY Mixtape.
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