Taye Diggs

Currently, Diggs portrays an attorney on the UPN series Kevin Hill. More recently, he has starred as senior MI5 officer Harry Pearce in the BBC's popular spy drama series Spooks (2002-present), and played Fred Hoyle in a BBC dramatisation of the early career of Stephen Hawking. He also starred in the remake of William Castle's The House on Haunted Hill. Both of these were made as part of the BBC's famous Play for Today anthology drama strand. Lee's The Best Man featured Diggs as the titular best man suffering from his own pre-wedding jitters. In 1980 he starred as the eponymous time traveller in the BBC's feelgood science-fiction play The Flipside of Dominick Hide, and two years later starred in a sequel, Another Flip for Dominick. Audiences could next see him as an AWOL groom in the coming-of-age drama The Wood. Malcolm D. In parallel to his film career, Firth has continued to appear in various television productions, with several notable credits in various high-profile dramas.

The following year he accepted roles as a tantric sex god in Doug Liman's Go. Subsequent film work has included roles in The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Pearl Harbor (2001). 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. Further film work quickly followed, most notably Roman Polanski's Tess (1979), an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. 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. The film was a success, and earned Firth a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and victory in the same category at the Golden Globe Awards. Diggs' debut was in the ensemble cast of the five-time Tony Award-winning musical Carousel. The following year, Firth starred in Equus, the film adaptation of the play in which he had starred on Broadway.

Diggs received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theater from Syracuse University. The adaptation was scripted by John Osborne and also starred Jeremy Brett and John Gielgud, becoming a major success with the critics. Diggs married Broadway star Idina Menzel on January 11, 2003. His first major role as an adult was in the title role in a 1976 BBC Television Play of the Month adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He is the oldest of five children; he has two brothers and two sisters. In 1973, he appeared on stage in Peter Shaffer's Equus, playing a teenager being treated by a psychiatrist. He hails from Brooklyn, New York and was raised in Rochester, New York. Firth played Scooper, the leader of the gang.

Taye Diggs (born January 2, 1972) is an American actor. Firth was a leading child actor by 1970, starring in the Double Deckers series, which was made in the USA but set in London and featured British children in the leading roles. Winston Shakespeare. Peter Firth (born October 27, 1953 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK) is a British actor, well known for a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s. How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) ... Marcus.

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Jackson Duper (2001). Ally McBeal (1997) (TV) ... Artie Bonner. New Best Friend (2002) ...

Andre. Just a Kiss (2002) (uncredited) ... Jamal Boy. Cross the Line (2002) ...

Andre Romulus 'Dre' EllisDre. Brown Sugar (2002) ... Brandt. Equilibrium (2002) ...

The Bandleader. Chicago (2002) ... Pike. Basic (2003) ...

Sean. Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) ... Henry Nxumalo. Drum (2004) ...

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