Daveed Diggs
Highest Rated: 98% Hamilton (2020)
Lowest Rated: 19% The Starling (2021)
Birthday: Jan 24, 1982
Birthplace: Oakland, California, USA
Actor and rapper Daveed Diggs grew up in the Northern California city of Oakland. The son of a Jewish mother and an African-American father, Diggs described himself as an awkward adolescent. Diggs graduated from Brown University in 2004 and went on to work in experimental hip-hop circles. In 2015, Diggs made his Broadway debut in the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical "Hamilton." Diggs was the originator of the role of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette. The show was based on Ron Chernow's 2004 biography of Hamilton and made its Off-Broadway debut in February 2015 before moving to Broadway and selling out shows at an unprecedented rate. Prior to being cast in "Hamilton," Diggs was living off $100 a week in unemployment benefits and couch surfing, sometimes riding the subway all night when he had no place to stay. In June 2016, he won the Best Featured Actor in a Musical Tony Award for his roles in "Hamilton." Beginning in the fall of 2016 he appeared in Baz Luhrmann's "The Get Down," and joined the cast of the ABC sitcom "Black-ish" in a recurring role as Johan, Rainbow's poetry-reading, Francophile little brother.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Blink of an Eye | Unknown (Character) | - | 2025 |
81% | No Score Yet | Nickel Boys | Adult Elwood (Character) | - | 2024 |
63% |
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Trolls Band Together | Spruce (Voice) | $103.0M | 2023 |
66% |
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The Little Mermaid | Sebastian (Voice) | $298.2M | 2023 |
72% |
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DC League of Super-Pets | Cyborg (Voice) | $93.7M | 2022 |
19% |
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The Starling | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
95% |
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Soul | Paul (Voice) | $870.6K | 2020 |
98% |
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Hamilton |
Marquis de Lafayette/ |
- | 2020 |
61% |
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Velvet Buzzsaw | Damrish (Character) | - | 2019 |
94% |
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Blindspotting |
Collin (Character), Screenwriter, Producer |
$4.3M | 2018 |
71% |
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Ferdinand | Dos (Voice) | $84.2M | 2017 |
86% |
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Wonder | Mr. Browne (Character) | $132.4M | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
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Growing Up Wild | Narrator | - | 2016 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | AMC+ on Stage at San Diego Comic-Con | Self | 2024 |
75% | 65% | Snowpiercer | Andre Layton (Character) | 2020-2022 2024 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2016 2018-2022 2024 |
56% | 63% | Krapopolis | Carrots (Guest Voice) | 2023-2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge | Self | 2023 |
98% | 81% | Solar Opposites | Zylenol 'Zy' (Guest Voice) | 2023 |
100% | 85% | Blindspotting |
Executive Producer, Creator |
2021 2023 |
No Score Yet | 14% | The View | Guest | 2018 2021 2023 |
98% | 64% | Star Wars: Visions | Unknown (Voice) | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2020 2023 |
44% | 58% | Extrapolations | Rabbi Marshall Zucker (Character) | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 89% | The Crossover |
Executive Producer, Narrator |
2023 |
97% | 79% | Central Park | Helen (Voice) | 2020-2022 |
97% | 91% | Undone | Tunde (Voice) | 2019 2022 |
No Score Yet | 90% | Green Eggs and Ham | Mouse (Voice) | 2019 2022 |
No Score Yet | 19% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 67% | We the People | Music Performer | 2021 |
76% | 59% | mixed-ish | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 41% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2016 2020 |
98% | 73% | The Good Lord Bird | Frederick Douglass (Character) | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Bob's Burgers | Douglas (Guest Voice) | 2018 2020 |
92% | 45% | Star Wars Resistance | Norath Kev (Guest Voice) | 2019-2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Elvis Goes There | Guest | 2019 |
92% | 56% | black-ish | Johan (Guest Star) | 2016-2018 |
81% | 60% | The Mayor |
Mac Etcetra (Guest Star), Executive Producer |
2017-2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2016-2017 |
82% | 88% | The Get Down | Adult Books (Character) | 2017 |
100% | 29% | The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore | Guest | 2016 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Counselor Henderson (Guest Star) | 2015-2016 |