Renée Elise Goldsberry
Acting
Biography
Renée Elise Goldsberry (born January 2, 1971) is an American actress, singer and songwriter, known for originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in the Broadway musical Hamilton, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Her other Broadway credits include Nettie Harris in the original Broadway cast of The Color Purple, Mimi Márquez in Rent, and Nala in The Lion King. She has portrayed many roles on television, including Geneva Pine on The Good Wife, and Evangeline Williamson on One Life to Live, for which she received two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nominations.
Movies
A House of Dynamite
2025
Hamilton
2025
Waves
2019
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2018
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
Pistol Whipped
2008
Sisters
2015
Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation
2024
Satisfied
2025
Every Secret Thing
2014
Voice of Freedom
2021
Hamilton's America
2016
Albany Road
2024
Amidst the Chaos – Live (Again) from the Hollywood Bowl
2021
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
2022
Truth Be Told
2002
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
2008
Anything's Possible
2022
Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing
2020
TV Shows
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Following
2013
The Daily Show
1996
Younger
2015
The Good Wife
2009
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Star Trek: Enterprise
2001
White Collar
2009
Evil
2019
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
American Experience
1988
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The View
1997
Sherri
2022
Royal Pains
2009
Fast & Furious Spy Racers
2019
Altered Carbon
2018
Masters of Sex
2013