Daveed Diggs to Play Abolitionist Leader Frederick Douglass in Showtime Slavery Drama The Good Lord Bird

Best known for his Tony Award-winning turn as Hamilton‘s Thomas Jefferson, Daveed Diggs is now preparing to embody a very different historical figure. The actor will play slave-turned-abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass in Showtime’s upcoming limited series The Good Lord Bird, the network announced Friday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Diggs can also […]