Age: 55
male
Taye Diggs (born Scott Leo Diggs, Taye comes from the playful pronunciation of Scotty as "Scottay") is an American theatre, film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the Broadway musicals Rent and Hedwig and the Angry Inch; the TV series Private Practice (2007-2013), Murder in the First (2014-2016), and All American (2018-2024); and the films How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), The Wood, The Best Man (both 1999), Brown Sugar, Chicago (both 2002), Malibu's Most Wanted, Basic (both 2003), The Best Man (1999) and its sequel, The Best Man Holiday (2013), and Baggage Claim (2013). He had a recurring role as Jackson Duper on Ally McBeal, Dean Levine-Wilkins on The Good Wife, Mike Boyce on Rosewood starring real life friend Morris Chestnut, and Councilman Angelo DuBois on Empire. He starred in the lead role on the series Kevin Hill, and as Detective Brett Hopper on Day Break.
Set in a fictional West African coastal kingdom in 1620, SOVEREIGN follows QUEEN ADAEZE — a military commander who is crowned after the sudden death of the king — as she navigates palace betrayal, a Portuguese trading alliance that masks a slaving operation, and a forbidden love with her head of guard, YEMI. The score blends Afrobeats, gospel, classical African percussion, and sweeping orchestral balladry. There are 22 songs, including the showstopping second-act opener "I Was Made For This" and the devastating duet "The Sea Between Us." SOVEREIGN is designed for a cast of 30, with a set that transforms from palace to battlefield to ocean.
