Jasmine Cephas‐Jones

She gained her breakthrough when she made her Broadway debut originating the dual roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the Lin-Manuel Miranda stage musical Hamilton (2015–2016). Her work on Hamilton's accompanying cast album earned her a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Her performance was captured in the Disney+ live stage recording released in 2020.
On film, she acted in the films Mistress America (2015), Monsters and Men (2018), The Photograph (2020) and Origin (2023). She played a caring mother in the drama film Blindspotting (2018) and its spin-off sequel series of the same name from 2021 to 2023, on which she also served as a producer. She also took roles in Girls (2017), Mrs. Fletcher (2019), and FreeRayshawn (2020), the latter earning her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.