Biography
Described by Ebony magazine as "the black Clark Gable," actor Taye Diggs' range of talent placed him closer to the moniker bestowed upon him by The Los Angeles Times, which labeled him "the black Cary Grant. " Like the Hollywood legend, the New Jersey-born Diggs was both skilled and comfortable in almost any entertainment genre - from television to theater to film; from comedies to musicals to straight drama and action/thriller/fantasy, as his …
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Career Milestones
| Spent eight months in Japan working at Tokyo Disneyland in the Caribbean revue | ||
| Spotted by a talent agent while performing in a showcase during his senior year of college | ||
1994 | Made Broadway debut as an understudy in Nicholas Hytner's staging of "Carousel" | |
1995 | Breakthrough stage role, playing the landlord Benny, in the award-winning musical "Rent" | |
1996 | Made primetime TV debut on an episode of "New York Undercover" (Fox) | |
1997 | Had regular role of Sugar Hill on the CBS daytime drama "Guiding Light"; left show when cast in first film role | |
1998 | Feature film debut, playing a Jamaican man who falls for an older woman in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" | |
1999 | Cast in the ensembles of Doug Liman's "Go" and "The Wood" | |
1999 | Landed starring role opposite Nia Long in "The Best Man" | |
2000 | Co-starred in "The Way of the Gun" with James Caan and Ryan Phillippe | |
2000 | Returned to the NYC stage co-starring in the Manhattan Theater Club production of the musical "The Wild Party" | |
2001 | Had a recurring role on "Ally McBeal" (Fox) as Jackson Duper | |
2002 | Appeared as 'The Band Leader' in the big-screen adaptation of the hit musical "Chicago" | |
2002 | Starred opposite Sanaa Lathan in the hip-hop inspired film "Brown Sugar" | |
2002 | Supported Christian Bale and Emily Watson in "Equilibrium" | |
2003 | Acted opposite John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in John McTeirnan's military detective thriller "Basic" | |
2003 | Teamed up with Jamie Kennedy for the comedy feature "Malibu's Most Wanted" | |
2004 | Played a lawyer who inherits his deceased cousin's daughter on UPN's "Kevin Hill" | |
2005 | Reprised the role of Benny the landlord for the big-screen adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Tony-winning musical "Rent" | |
2007 | Cast as Dr. Sam Bennett, the Internal Medicine Specialist in the "Grey's Anatomy" spinoff series "Private Practice" (ABC) | |
2007 | Co-starred with Ray Liotta in "Slow Burn" | |
Awards
2003 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in Chicago |