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    Christopher Jackson

    American actor, singer, musician, and composer

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  1. In 2015, Jackson originated the role of President George Washington in the musical Hamilton on Broadway. [16] [17] He was nominated for a Tony Award and concluded his run on November 13, 2016. [18] Beginning with the 2016–2017 season, he plays Chunk Palmer in the CBS courtroom drama Bull. [19]

  2. Jul 3, 2020 · Hamilton: Directed by Thomas Kail. With Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Chris Jackson. The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.

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    • Biography, Drama, History
    • Thomas Kail
    • 2020-07-03
    • Flora Carr
    • Lin-Manuel Miranda plays Alexander Hamilton. Who was Alexander Hamilton? One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and the first Secretary for the Treasury.
    • Leslie Odom Jr. plays Aaron Burr. Who was Aaron Burr? Burr was the third vice president of the United States, serving alongside Thomas Jefferson. He was Alexander Hamilton's lifelong political rival, and duelled with him in 1804.
    • Phillipa Soo plays Eliza Schulyer. Who was Eliza Schulyer? An heiress and philanthropist, she married Alexander Hamilton and founded the first private orphanage in New York City.
    • Renée Elise Goldsberry plays Angelica Schulyer. Who was Angelica Schulyer? The elder sister of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and sister-in-law of Alexander Hamilton, with whom she enjoyed a longtime correspondence via letters.
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  4. www.imdb.com › name › nm1862960Chris Jackson - IMDb

    Actor: Hamilton. Chris Jackson was born on 30 September 1975 in Cairo, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Hamilton (2020), In the Heights (2021) and Sesame Street (1969).

    • Actor, Composer, Music Department
    • September 30, 1975
    • 2 min
    • Lin-Manuel Miranda. The creator, writer and composer who played Alexander Hamilton has not slowed down since the show's debut in 2015. He voiced Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera/Gizmoduck on DuckTales (2017); played Jack the Lamplighter in Mary Poppins Returns (2018), alongside Emily Blunt; played Piragüero in the movie adaptation of his first musical hit In the Heights and composed and voiced Vivo in the Netflix animated film of the same name (2021).
    • Leslie Odom Jr. Odom's Tony-winning role as Aaron Burr led to starring alongside Cynthia Erivo in the Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet (2019), portraying Sam Cooke in Regina King's One Night in Miami (2020), appearing in The Many Saints of Newark (2021) and Netflix's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) and voicing Owen Tillerman in the Apple TV+ animated series Central Park.
    • Daveed Diggs. Following his Tony-winning roles as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, Diggs played the narrator in the TV series The Get Down (2016–2017), voiced Paul in Pixar's Soul (2020), portrayed Frederick Douglass in the mini-series The Good Lord Bird (2020), stars as Andre Layton in Snowpiercer and voices Sebastian the crab in The Little Mermaid (2023).
    • Anthony Ramos. Scoring the role of young Philip Hamilton certified Ramos as a star whose potential is limitless. He's carved out his music career with albums The Good & The Bad (2019) and Love and Lies (2021), while appearing as Ramon in A Star Is Born (2018), playing Mars Blackmon in Spike Lee's Netflix adaptation of She's Gotta Have It (2017–2019), voicing King Trollex in Trolls World Tour (2020), playing Usnavi in In the Heights (2021) and starring as Noah in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023).
  5. Jan 14, 2021 · For Jackson, a Tony nominee for his performance, the distance between his last performance of “Hamilton” and the movie allowed him to gain some unexpected perspective.

  6. Christopher Jackson and cast Joan Marcus. Chris Jackson, George Washington. A Tony nominee for his portrayal of our first president, Jackson was actually pulling double duty—filming CBS’...