Taye Diggs

We’d like to welcome Taye Diggs as the 2024 WVU Medicine Children’s Gala emcee. Diggs is certainly no stranger to an audience! He recently starred in the film series “Terry McMillian presents Forever” opposite Meagan Good and is set to voice King Triton with Amber Riley as Ursula in “Ariel”, the Disney/Disney Junior animated series.

Other TV credits include the starring role of Billy Baker, former NFL player turned high school football coach, on The CW’s hit show “All American”, and series regular roles in the “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff series “Private Practice”, and the TNT serial crime drama “Murder in the First”. Taye also had recurring roles in “Ally McBeal”, “The West Wing”, “Will & Grace” as Eric McCormack’s boyfriend in the show’s final season, “The Good Wife”, “Rosewood”, and “Empire” as city councilman Angelo Dubois, a love interest for Taraji P. Henson’s character. 

Diggs has served as a producer on several projects in addition to starring including the critically acclaimed UPN series “Kevin Hill” in which he plays the title character, and the ABC series “Day Break”. Diggs has also produced and starred in the films “Til Death Do Us Part: and “Incarnation”.

Diggs  made his film debut in “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” starring opposite Angela Bassett as her younger love interest Winston Shakespeare. From there, he went on to build a successful career across film, television, and theatre. On the film side, Diggs portrayed The Bandleader in Rob Marshall’s film version of the Broadway musical “Chicago”. He also reprised the role he originated on Broadway, landlord Benjamin Coffin III, in Chris Columbus’ film version of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Rent”. He went on to appear in Broadway musicals including “Chicago”, “Rent”, “Wicked”, and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”.

Other notable film credits include “Go”, “The Wood”, “The Best Man”, “House on Haunted Hill”, “Equilibrium”, “The Way of the Gun”, “Brown Sugar”, and “The Best Man Holiday” among others.