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.

Filmography

• Cupertino — Nichole E. Ferebee
• 2025A House of Dynamite — The First Lady
• Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Mrs. T
• 2025Hamilton — Angelica Schuyler
• 2025Satisfied — Self, Executive Producer
• 2024Albany Road — Celeste Simmons
• 2024Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation — Colleen Voyd (voice)
• Clone High — Sandra Sandria (voice)
• 2022Anything's Possible — Selene
• Eureka! — Roxy (voice)
• She-Hulk: Attorney at Law — Mallory Book
• Ada Twist, Scientist — Theme Song Performance
• Centaurworld — Waterbaby (voice), Waterbaby / Medic (voice)
• Girls5eva — Wickie
• 2021Voice of Freedom — Narrator (voice)
• 2021tick, tick... BOOM! — "Sunday" Legend #3
• 2020Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing — Melodia (voice)
• 2020Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You
• Stars in the House — Elvira, Self
• Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist — Ava Price
• Evil — Renée Harris
• Fast & Furious Spy Racers — Ms. Nowhere (voice)
• 2019Waves — Catharine
• Altered Carbon — Quellcrist Falconer
• Muppet Babies — Theme Song Performance
• 2018The House with a Clock in Its Walls — Selena Izard
• 2017Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway
• 2017The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Henrietta Lacks
• The Get Down — Misty Holloway
• Documentary Now! — Dee Dee
• 2015Sisters — Kim
• Younger — Courtney Ostin
• 2014Every Secret Thing — Cynthia Barnes
• Masters of Sex — Morgan Hogue
• The Following — Olivia Warren
• Running Wilde
• Royal Pains — Mrs. Phillips
• The Good Wife — Geneva Pine
• White Collar — Ellen Samuel
• Life on Mars — Denise Watkins
• 2008Pistol Whipped — Drea
• 2008Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway — Mimi Marquez
• That '80s Show — Spokesmodel #2
• 2002Truth Be Told — Rachel
• 2001All About You — Nicole Taylor
• One on One — Paulette
• Star Trek: Enterprise — Crewman Kelly
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Martha Marron
• Ally McBeal — Back-up Singer, Renee, Go-Go Dancer #1
• American Experience — Narrator
• Bloom
• Co-Op: Original Cast Album — Dee Dee
• Keep My Brother — Ava

Appearances as themselves (16)

• 2025Hamilton: Reuniting the Revolution — Self
• Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• 2022Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self - Guest
• 2021Amidst the Chaos – Live (Again) from the Hollywood Bowl — Self
• Celebrity Wheel of Fortune — Self - Contestant
• That's My Jam — Self - Guest
• Some Good News — Self
• 2020The Undefeated Presents: Hamilton In-Depth — Self
• 2019On Broadway — Self (archive footage)
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• Carpool Karaoke: The Series — Self
• 2016Hamilton's America — Self
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self