Daveed Diggs is becoming a member of the world of “The Boys” as a series regular in Prime Video series’ fifth and closing season. Details of Diggs’ function are being stored beneath wraps.
Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s graphic novel series the place the superheroes are the dangerous guys, “The Boys” is ready in a world during which a substance can flip folks into superheroes, a legion of corporate-backed supes enacts their very own sense of justice whereas posing for cameras and covertly doing moist work for the federal government – sort of like an evil Avengers. The present follows a group of regular people who work to carry the superheroes down.
“The Boys” is govt produced by Ennis, Robertson, showrunner Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Phil Sgriccia, Michaela Starr, Paul Grellong, David Reed, Judalina Neira, Jessica Chou, Ken F. Levin and Jason Netter. Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television produced the series with Kripke Enterprises, Original Film, and Point Grey Pictures.
Diggs, who's greatest recognized for originating the twin roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in Broadway’s “Hamilton,” acquired a a Tony and Grammy award in 2016 for his stage efficiency along with a 2021 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the Disney+ model.
He was most just lately seen the historic drama “Nickel Boys,” which is predicated on Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel “The Nickel Boys,” starring reverse Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. The movie, which can have a restricted theatrical launch by Amazon MGM Studios on Oct. 25, follows two African American boys who're despatched to an abusive reform college known as the Nickel Academy in Sixties Florida. The movie is impressed by the historic reform college in Florida known as the Dozier School for Boys, which was infamous for abusive remedy of college students.
Other credit embrace AMC’s “Snowpiercer,” Showtime’s “The Good Lord Bird,” AppleTV+’s “Extrapolations,” “Central Park,” and “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock,” Disney+’s “The Crossover,” Pixar’s “Soul,” Disney’s live-action adaptation of “The Little Mermaid,” Netflix’s “Velvet Buzzsaw,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Bojack Horseman” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” Lionsgate’s “Wonder,” Fox’s “Ferdinand” and “Bob’s Burgers,” ABC’s “Black-ish,” HBO’s “Tour De Pharmacy” and NBC’s “Law & Order” SVU.”
Additionally, he just lately wrapped manufacturing on Searchlight’s “In the Blink of An Eye,” starring reverse Kate McKinnon and Rashida Jones, and an upcoming movie which he'll star reverse Josh Gad, Alexandra Daddario, and Ashley Park.
Outside of performing, he serves as co-creator, co-executive producer and author of Starz’s “Blindspotting” and govt produces ABC’s “The Mayor” and a selection of digital shorts for ESPN.
