There’s no denying that Hamilton made quite the splash when it opened on Broadway August 6, 2015. In addition to becoming the hottest ticket in town and winning the 2016 Tony Award for Best Musical, the impact of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical rippled beyond New York City’s Theatre District, becoming a pop culture powerhouse.
Along with the musical itself, the original cast gained prominence and an abundance of fans. While many of the cast members had gotten their starts before Hamilton, they have seen their careers soar to new heights in the nearly 10 years since it opened.
From their thrilling reunion performance at the Tony Awards to the recent 10th anniversary of Hamilton on Broadway and the theatrical release in movie theatres nationwide, here are the highlights of what they’ve been up to since their final bows at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
The world certainly knows his name after creating and starring in the smash hit Hamilton. After departing Hamilton, Miranda had a string of Disney projects released such as Moana (including the Oscar-nominated song “How Far I’ll Go”), Encanto (featuring the Oscar-nominated “Dos Oruguitas”), Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mary Poppins Returns—in which he starred alongside Emily Blunt—and the live-action The Little Mermaid. He also provided original music for Mufasa: The Lion King, released in December 2024, in collaboration with Lebo M.
Miranda made his film directorial debut with Netflix’s tick, tick…BOOM!, and made a memorable cameo as Piragüero in the 2021 film adaptation of his earlier musical In the Heights, starring fellow Hamilton alum Anthony Ramos. He voiced the title role in the 2021 Netflix animated film Vivo, and has taken on several acting roles in recent years, including Lee Scoresby in His Dark Materials and Hermes in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Most recently, Miranda collaborated with playwright Eisa Davis on the 2024 concept album Warriors, based on the 1979 film The Warriors. Earlier this year, he also returned to Broadway for a limited engagement in All In: Comedy About Love. Looking ahead, he will star in The Making Of, a romantic comedy film alongside Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, and Blake Lively.
Leslie Odom Jr.
Aaron Burr (sir) was the role that landed Odom a 2016 Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical and a 2021 Emmy Award nomination for the 2020 filmed version of Hamilton on Disney+. He also earned an additional Emmy nomination for his voice performance in the Apple TV+ animated series Central Park. Diving deep into film work, audiences saw him in Hollywood hits like Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Harriet, Murder on the Orient Express, and The Exorcist: Believer. Following his breakout in Hamilton, Odom expanded into a wide range of film and television projects, including acclaimed performances in Harriet, Murder on the Orient Express, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and The Many Saints of Newark. He also starred as Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami…, for which he earned two Oscar nominations—Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Song for “Speak Now,” which he co-wrote. Television audiences have also seen him guest star on the hit series Abbott Elementary.
He also released four albums as a recording artist: The Christmas Album, Mr., Simply Christmas, and When a Crooner Dies. He returned to Broadway in 2023 as a producer and star in the titular role of Purlie Victorious, earning him Tony nominations for Best Lead Actor in a Play and Best Revival of a Play. He will return to Hamilton on Broadway this September to reprise his performance as Aaron Burr, beginning September 9, 2025.
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Goldsberry’s performance as Angelica Schuyler left audiences “Satisfied,” winning her the 2016 Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Musical, and earning an Emmy Award nomination for her performance in the 2020 Disney+ filmed version. Since then, she has been all over the silver screen, acting in television shows such as Altered Carbon, Documentary Now!, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist. She also starred in the titular role of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and is currently starring as Wickie Roy in Girls5eva. She lent her voice to the animated Netflix series Fast & Furious: Spy Racers and starred in the 2024 indie drama Albany Road. In 2023, she returned to the stage as Prospero in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of The Tempest. She made a brief return to Broadway in December 2024, starring alongside John Mulaney, Richard Kind, and Fred Armisen in the limited-run comedy All In: Comedy About Love. Most recently, she released a new album titled Who I Really Am, featuring 13 original songs —11 written by Goldsberry and one written by co-star Sara Bareilles. Additionally, the album features a new rendition of “Satisfied” from Hamilton. She will return to Broadway in the spring of 2026 in the new David Lindsay-Abaire play The Balusters.
Phillipa Soo
Following Soo’s 2016 Tony Award nomination for her performance as “the best of wives, best of women,” Eliza Schuyler, the actress returned to Broadway for two consecutive seasons. First, during the 2016–2017 season, she starred in the titular role of Amélie, and during the 2017–2018 season, she starred alongside Uma Thurman in The Parisian Woman. She also appeared on screen in the 2020 romantic comedy The Broken Hearts Gallery and voiced the moon goddess Chang’e in the animated Netflix musical Over the Moon. Television audiences saw her star in The Bite, Dopesick, and Shining Girls before she returned to the Broadway stage as Cinderella in Into the Woods and Guinevere in Camelot. In the fall of 2024, Soo began starring alongside Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson in Ryan Murphy’s new drama series, Doctor Odyssey, on ABC. She also played the role of Fox on the 2024 concept album Warriors by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis. In summer of 2025, she returned to the stage in the Hollywood Bowl production of Jesus Christ Superstar alongside Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert. Soo will return to the stage in High Spirits next year at City Center alongside her husband Steven Pasquale.
Jasmine Cephas Jones
Jones impressed Broadway audiences with her vocal prowess in the dual roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds before wowing them with her screen work. She played Ashley in the film Blindspotting — written and produced by and also starring fellow Hamilton alum Daveed Diggs. The film was so successful, it received a spinoff series with Jones as the lead and as a producer. She also appeared in the HBO series Mrs. Fletcher and the romantic drama The Photograph. In 2023, she starred in Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed film Origin. Jones made history as the first Black woman to win an Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series Emmy, for her performance in #freeRayShawn. It was the same night her father, the late Ron Cephas Jones, won his second Emmy Award, making them the first daughter-father duo to win Emmy Awards in the same ceremony. On the recording front, she released an EP titled Blue Bird in 2020 and an album called Phoenix in 2024. Jones played the role of Swan on Warriors, the concept album by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis.
Anthony Ramos
Ramos wasn’t finished with Miranda musicals once he completed his run playing dual roles of John Laurens and Philip Schuyler in Hamilton. In 2018, he starred as Usnavi (the role Miranda originated in 2008) in the Kennedy Center production of In the Heights before reprising the role for the 2021 film adaptation. Audiences also saw him on the big screen in A Star Is Born, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and last summer in the blockbuster Twisters. His voice can be heard in the animated hit Trolls World Tour, and he starred in Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It. In 2024, he led the sci-fi film Distant alongside Naomi Scott. Ramos will appear as Parker Robbins/The Hood in Marvel’s upcoming series Ironheart and is also set to star in Ryan Murphy’s new drama The Beauty, opposite Ashton Kutcher, Jeremy Pope, and Evan Peters. As a recording artist, he released The Freedom EP, The Good & the Bad, and Love and Lies.
Daveed Diggs
Diggs’s dual-role performance as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson earned him a 2016 Tony Award, and a 2021 Emmy Award nomination for his performance in the musical’s filmed version on Disney+. He then went on to work both in front of and behind the camera, as he wrote, produced, and starred in the 2018 film Blindspotting, which also featured fellow Hamilton alum Jasmine Cephas Jones. He created, wrote, executive produced, and acted in the television spinoff of the same name. Diggs also delivered standout performances in The Get Down, voiced Paul in Pixar’s Soul, and starred in The Good Lord Bird. Other major credits include Snowpiercer, Wonder, Zootopia, and Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid. He’s also been seen in the Amazon hit The Boys (final season) and will appear in the upcoming film Magic Hour, set for release in 2025. Most recently, Diggs starred in The Nickel Boys, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel.
Okieriete Onaodowan
After playing the dual roles of Hercules Mulligan and James Madison, Onaodowan returned to Broadway the following year to play Pierre in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. His most recent Broadway outing was in 2023, starring as Nills Krogstead in A Doll’s House, directed by Jamie Lloyd. Beyond the stage, he appeared in TV series including The Get Down, Jack Ryan, and She’s Gotta Have It. He played Dean Miller on Grey’s Anatomy and carried the role into its spinoff Station 19. Additional television appearances include Tuca & Bertie, Law & Order, Blue Bloods, and Billions. In film, he was seen in A Quiet Place Part II and American Fiction. Onaodowan also appeared in the music video for Matthew Santos’s song “In My Breath.”
Christopher Jackson
Tony-nominated for his performance as the nation’s first president, Jackson took his bow as George Washington “one last time” in November 2016. He then provided his talents to film and television, playing Chester “Chunk” Palmer in Bull and as Herbert Wexley in the Sex and the City reboot, And Just Like That…. He voiced Chief Tui in Disney’s Moana, and also contributed to The Lion Guard and Apple TV+’s Central Park. Jackson made cameos in the Broadway run of Freestyle Love Supreme and in the film adaptation of In the Heights. He was also featured in Ava DuVernay’s Emmy-winning series When They See Us. On the film side, he appeared in World’s Best (2023) and Boundary Waters (2024). He has returned to Broadway this summer in the hit musical Hell’s Kitchen.
Jonathan Groff
Once Groff hung up his King George III crown in Hamilton, he starred in the first musical podcast, 36 Questions, and in the Netflix series Mindhunter. He also reprised his role as Kristoff in the Disney animated sequel Frozen II. He brought his talents back to the stage as Seymour in the 2019 Off-Broadway hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors. In 2022, he was back Off-Broadway starring as Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along at New York Theatre Workshop, transferring with the production to Broadway. Though the Stephen Sondheim musical was perceived as a commercial failure when it first opened in 1981, the Tony-winning revival was a smash hit, and Groff received the 2024 Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical. Beyond Broadway, Groff appeared in The Matrix Resurrections and M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin. He’s also been seen in Lost Ollie, And Just Like That…, Life & Beth, and Doctor Who. Groff is currently starring in the Broadway musical Just In Time as Bobby Darin, which earned him his fourth Tony nomination.
The Company
The principal cast members weren’t the only actors to find success after Hamilton. Ariana DeBose (The Bullet) won an Oscar for her performance as Anita in the 2021 remake of West Side Story, has thrice hosted the Tony Awards, and will be returning to the stage this year in The Baker’s Wife Off-Broadway; Ephraim Sykes (George Eaker) earned a 2019 Tony nomination for his portrayal of David Ruffin in Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, and was recently seen be seen back on Broadway in Our Town; Emmy Raver-Lampman (Ensemble) played Angelica in the first national tour of Hamilton before joining Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy as Allison Hargreeves; Javier Muñoz (original Alexander Hamilton alternate and first replacement) was seen in several television shows as well as in the Chicago premiere of the The Devil Wears Prada musical as Nigel; and Sydney James Harcourt (Ensemble) starred as Rum Tum Tugger in the Off-Broadway production of CATS: The Jellicle Ball. Thayne Jasperson (Samuel Seabury) is the only original cast member who continues to perform in the musical nearly a decade after the show’s Broadway premiere.
