David Diggs Biography

American theater and film actor, screenwriter, producer, rapper. The performer of the role of Andre Leighton in the series "Through the Snow". David Diggs was born on January 24 in Auckland, California. Father is an African American, a bus driver. Mother is a Jewish, a social worker. Parents called him "David" the Jewish pronunciation of David. Diggs himself said: “David in Hebrew means“ beloved ”they wrote this word with two letters“ e ”because my father liked it.” The ethnic and racial identity of his parents contributed to his own self -identification: "Cultures never seemed divided - I had many mixed friends." From childhood he was fond of music.

Writes songs, reads rap. The frontman of the experimental hip-hop group "Clipping". In the year, they released their debut album Soft Rules. In December, DIGGS, along with his old friends, William Hatson and Jonathan Snipce in partnership with Disney Channel, released a festive song to Hanukkah. He graduated from Berkeley secondary school, and then in the year the University of Brown with a bachelor's degree in theater art.

While studying at the university, he performed in athletics competitions.

In a run with barriers in the second year, he showed the time of 14.21 seconds. After graduation, he worked as a teacher for some time. On the theater scene he began to perform from the year. He played two roles - Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayet - at Broadway in the play "Hamilton" in the season. For his game, he received the theater Tony Award for the best male role in the musical and the Grammy Prize for the best album based on the theater musical, along with the rest of the original Hamilton actors.

David Diggs began to star in the cinema in the cinema in the year. The first fame was brought to him by the series “Black Comedy”, in which he played the role of Johan Johnson. In the center of history is a member of the Council of Management Corporation, which lives an “American dream”: an excellent career, four beautiful children, a colonial -style house in the area for the upper middle class.

But once he begins to see his perfect life in a completely different way. David Diggs in the series "Black Comedy" in M ​​played Slim Robinson in the sports comedy "Porves" about the Tour de France race, in which almost every athlete came across doping. In the year he acted as a screenwriter, producer and leading actor in the tragicomedy “Blind Spots”. His hero Colin expects the end of the prison term and is preparing to be released, but a few days before the long -awaited liberation, he becomes the only witness to how the policeman kills an unarmed African American.

David Diggs in the film "Blind Spots" in the years played the role of Andre Leighton in the post-apocalyptic thriller "Through the Snow." According to the plot, after the technogenic disaster on Earth, the ice age occurred. People remained only in a giant train in which a strict class hierarchy reigns: from the ruling elite in the first wagons to the oppressed in the tail. The hero of David Diggs is the leader of the oppressed inhabitants of the tail who leads their uprising for his rights.

David Diggs in the series "Through the Snow" in M ​​played Marshall Tsuker in the 8-Serial comedic mysticism of "Extrapolation" about how the upcoming changes in our planet will affect love, faith, work and family. Growth David Diggs: centimeter. They played together in the play Hamilton. In September, the couple announced in social networks that they were waiting for the firstborn.