The famous Scott Leo Taye Diggs is an American stage and film actor. He is known for his roles in the Broadway musicals Rent and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the TV series Private Practice, Murder in the First (2014-2016), and All American (2018-), and the films How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998).
In 1996, Diggs originated the role of the landlord Benny in Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent, which also starred his future wife, Idina Menzel. After Rent, he appeared as Mr. Black opposite Menzel’s character of Kate in Andrew Lippa’s off-Broadway production of The Wild Party at Manhattan Theatre Club. Diggs also played The Bandleader in the 2002 film version of the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago and filled in as Billy Flynn on Broadway. He also temporarily filled in for Norbert Leo Butz (an original Rent standby) as the love interest Fiyero of Menzel’s Elphaba character in Wicked.
Taye Diggs’s top movies, TV shows, and awards
Taye Diggs’s top movies are Baggage Claim (2013) · The Best Man Holiday (2013) · The Best Man (1999) · Chicago (2002) · Day Break (2006 TV show). Taye Diggs has won Acapulco Black Film Festival, and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards and he got nominated for Awards Circuit Community Awards, Behind the Voice Actors Awards, Black Reel Awards, and Black Reel Awards for Television.
