Daveed Diggs's Real Name: Daveed Diggs

Quick answer: The performer is known professionally as Daveed Diggs. TV Guide gives the birth name Daveed Daniele Diggs and, with the Internet Broadway Database, places the birth in Oakland, California.

Real name and early life

TV Guide gives the birth name Daveed Daniele Diggs and the birthplace Oakland, California. The Internet Broadway Database independently identifies him as Daveed Diggs, places the birth in Oakland, California, USA, and records the birth date January 24, 1982. TV Guide does not give a calendar birth date, and it is the source among these pages that records the middle name Daniele.

Career highlights

The Internet Broadway Database says he appeared in the original Broadway production of Hamilton, which opened August 6, 2015, as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, and that he departed those roles on July 15, 2016. Playbill independently lists him as the original Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton, which opened August 6, 2015, with a departure date of July 15, 2016, and records a 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the show, as well as 2015 and 2016 Drama League Distinguished Performance nominations for Hamilton. The official Tony Awards winners list independently records Daveed Diggs as the 2016 winner for Actor (Featured Role – Musical) for Hamilton. Playbill and the Internet Broadway Database also list later Freestyle Love Supreme credits, including productions that opened October 2, 2019, and October 19, 2021, in which Playbill records him as aka Mr. Diggs at certain unannounced performances. The official Grammy Awards artist page independently records one win and one nomination for Diggs, a 2016 Best Musical Theater Album award at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards for Hamilton, listing him among the credited artists alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry, and others. TV Guide lists additional later awards nominations without naming every corresponding title on the biography page cited here.

Name notes for searchers

People looking up Daveed Diggs or Daveed Daniele Diggs are looking for the same performer, including the later Hamilton work most often associated with his name. Search traffic often uses the professional name Daveed Diggs.