He also sings on the Rent film soundtrack. Diggs is featured on the following cast recordings: Carousel 1994 revival cast Rent 1996 original Broadway cast The Wild Party original off-Broadway cast. He reprised the role of Benny for the 2005 Rent film. Another notable role of his was on the comedy-drama Ally McBeal as a lawyer named Jackson Duper who was the love interest of the character Renee Raddick and the possible love interest of the Ling Woo character.ĭiggs portrayed the title character on the short-lived UPN television series Kevin Hill which despite critical acclaim was not renewed for a second season. Diggs was featured in an episode of America's Next Top Model helping the contestants through an acting challenge. He also starred in the 1999 remake of William Castle's House on Haunted Hill. Lee's The Best Man features Diggs as the title character, an author and best friend of the groom (portrayed by Morris Chestnut). The following year, he played a tantric sex god in Doug Liman's Go, and AWOL groom in the coming-of-age drama The Wood alongside Omar Epps. In 1998, he made his film debut in How Stella Got Her Groove Back, which brought Diggs much acclaim and exposure. 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.ĭiggs then moved from stage to television with a role on the soap opera Guiding Light. 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. Black opposite Menzel's character of Kate in Andrew Lippa's off-Broadway production of The Wild Party at Manhattan Theatre Club. 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. In 1995, he also performed as a dancer in Sebastian's Caribbean Carnival at Tokyo Disneyland. His Broadway debut was in the ensemble cast of the 1994 Tony Award-winning revival of the musical Carousel. He also spent the summer of 1992 at the New London Barn Playhouse in New London, New Hampshire. ĭiggs performed many times at the popular Lakes Region Summer Theatre in Meredith, New Hampshire. He received a BFA in musical theater in 1993 from Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts. He attended Allendale Columbia School in Rochester and later transferred to School of the Arts. He has two brothers, Gabriel and Michael, and two sisters, Christian and Shalom. His nickname, Taye, comes from the playful pronunciation of Scotty as "Scottay". When he was a child, his mother married Jeffries Diggs, whose surname Taye took. His mother, Marcia (née Berry), was a teacher and actress, and his father, Andre Young, is a visual artist. He is known for his roles in the Broadway musicals Rent and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the TV series Private Practice (2007–2013), Murder in the First (2014–2016), and All American (2018–2023), and the films How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Brown Sugar, Chicago (both 2002), Malibu's Most Wanted (2003), and The Best Man (1999) and its sequel, The Best Man Holiday (2013).ĭiggs was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in the South Wedge neighborhood of Rochester, New York. Scott Leo " Taye" Diggs (born January 2, 1971) is an American stage and film actor.
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