Daveed Diggs Biography

Fast Facts

• First acted in a seventh-grade play, playing a baby
• Recruited by Brown University to run track in college, during which time he broke the school's record for the 110m hurdle event
• Taught acting and poetry classes as a middle-school teacher after graduating from Brown
• Founded an experimental-rap group called Clipping
• Released his debut solo rap album titled Small Things to a Giant in 2012
• Met Lin-Manuel Miranda after becoming a member of his improv rap group, Freestyle Love Supreme
• Originated the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Lin-Manuel Miranda's widely-acclaimed Broadway production of Hamilton in 2015
• Broke the record for fastest rap performed on a Broadway stage in Hamilton, rapping 19 words in 3 seconds