Featured Episode: #490
Renée Elise Goldsberry is a multi-hyphenate actress and singer, best known for originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in the groundbreaking Broadway musical, Hamilton, for which she won Tony and Grammy Awards and received an Emmy Award nomination for the Disney+ filmed version.
Onscreen, Goldsberry most recently starred in the critically acclaimed comedy series Girls5Eva, for which she earned multiple Critics Choice and Television Critic Association Award nominations for her breakthrough role as Wickie Roy. For film, she next co-stars in Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated feature, A House of Dynamite. Her past screen credits include the title role in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks starring Oprah Winfrey; memorable supporting performances in Marvel’s She Hulk and Netflix’s Altered Carbon; a recurring role on CBS’s The Good Wife; a key supporting turn opposite Sterling K. Brown, Taylor Russell and Kelvin Harrison Jr. in the lauded indie feature Waves; a leading role in the independent feature Albany Road; and two Daytime Emmy nominations for her fan-favorite performance as ‘Evangeline Williamson’ on the daytime drama One Life to Live, for which she was also nominated for two NAACP Image Awards.
A stage veteran, she will return to Broadway in Spring 2026 in the new play The Balusters, written by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire. Her previous Broadway credits include the musicals The Color Purple, Rent, and The Lion King, and the plays Good People and All In: Comedy About Love.
Her recently released debut album of original music, Who I Really Am, is available now on all streaming platforms.
(photo cred: Justin Bettman)