Taye Diggs (born January 2, 1972) is an American actor. He hails from Brooklyn, New York and was raised in Rochester, New York. He is the oldest of five children; he has two brothers and two sisters. Diggs married Broadway star Idina Menzel on January 11, 2003.

Diggs received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theater from Syracuse University. Diggs' debut was in the ensemble cast of the five-time Tony Award-winning musical Carousel. In 1996, he got his big break, originating the role of the nasty landlord Benny in Jonathan Larson's Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent. He then moved from stage to television, with a role on Guiding Light, and in 1998 he made his film debut in How Stella Got Her Groove Back . The following year he accepted roles as a tantric sex god in Doug Liman 's Go. Audiences could next see him as an AWOL groom in the coming-of-age drama The Wood . Malcolm D. Lee 's The Best Man featured Diggs as the titular best man suffering from his own pre-wedding jitters. He also starred in the remake of William Castle's The House on Haunted Hill. Currently, Diggs portrays an attorney on the UPN series Kevin Hill .

Filmography

• Rent (2005) .... Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III
• Kevin Hill (2004) TV Series .... Kevin Hill
• Drum (2004) .... Henry Nxumalo
• Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) .... Sean
• Basic (2003) .... Pike
• Chicago (2002) .... The Bandleader
• Equilibrium (2002) .... Brandt
• Brown Sugar (2002) .... Andre Romulus 'Dre' EllisDre
• Cross the Line (2002) .... Jamal Boy
• Just a Kiss (2002) (uncredited) .... Andre
• New Best Friend (2002) .... Artie Bonner
• Ally McBeal (1997) (TV) .... Jackson Duper (2001)
• Way of the Gun, The (2000) .... Jeffers
• House on Haunted Hill (1999) .... Eddie Baker
• Best Man, The (1999/I) .... Harper Stewart
• Wood, The (1999) .... Roland
• Go (1999) .... Marcus
• How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) .... Winston Shakespeare

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