Taye Diggs Net Worth and Salary: Taye Diggs is an American stage, film, and television actor who has a net worth of $14 million. Diggs is famous for appearing in stage productions throughout his career and is also a singer. He has also been successful in various television series. Throughout his career, Diggs has won a number of awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Early Life: Scott Leo Berry was born on January 2, 1971 in Newark, New Jersey. Raised in Rochester, New York City, Scott took the surname Jeffries Diggs, to whom his mother remarried after separating from his biological father. The name “Taye” is a stylized form of the name “Scotty” because it resembles the last syllable. Taye grew up with five siblings and his mother worked as both a teacher and an actress.
Although he initially attended a regular high school in Rochester, he eventually transferred to a progressive alternative school called the School of the Arts. After graduating high school, Taye Diggs attended Syracuse University and earned a BFA in Musical Theatre. During this period, he established himself as a stage actor performing in theater in New Hampshire.
Career: Diggs’ Broadway debut came in 1994 when he booked a role in a revival of a musical called “Carousel.” The play won five Tony Awards and helped put Taye on the map. During this time, he also paid for the deeds by booking work as a dancer at Tokyo Disneyland. Diggs really hit the scene when he booked a major role as Benny in the award-winning musical “Rent.” While performing, he met his future wife Idina, who later starred alongside him again in the Broadway play “The Wild Party.”
Now that Taye Diggs has established himself in the theater world, roles have not been hard to come by. He began appearing in Broadway productions such as “Chicago” and “Wicked.” Additionally, Diggs has found it easy to transition to film and television roles up to this point. He began by appearing in the long-running soap opera ‘Guiding Light’. Not long after, he made his official film debut after joining the cast of How Stella Got Her Groove Back in 1998. The Wood. and “The Best Man.” He ended 1999 with an appearance in the remake of “House on Haunted Hill.”
Moving on, Taye Diggs appeared on an episode of “America’s Next Top Model” and was tasked with guiding the contestants through an acting challenge. He then booked a role as a lawyer on the “Ally McBeal” show. He also booked the band leader role in the film adaptation of ‘Chicago’ in 2002. In the year, he had a memorable role in the sci-fi film ‘Equilibrium’ alongside Christian Bale. In this capacity, Diggs appeared on the show “Punk’d” as an unwitting contestant and also made several appearances as Will’s love interest on “Will & Grace”.
In 2004, Taye Diggs is given his own show called “Kevin Hill”. The legal drama received strong reviews in its first season as well, but it hasn’t been renewed for even a second. In 2005, he got the chance to play the character of Benny again in the film adaptation of the movie “Rent”. Although his acting career was transitioning to film and television, Taye continued to appear in a number of Broadway productions throughout the rest of his career (most notably “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”). Diggs later recorded songs on the soundtracks for many of his Broadway plays.
In 2007, she booked a lead role in the series “Private Practice”, which was a spin-off of the show “Grey’s Anatomy”. The series was quite successful and ran until 2013. In the following time, Diggs made appearances on “The West Wing” and crossover episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy”. He also found time to star in the live-action adaptation of the comic “Dylan Dog: Dead of Night.” In 2017, Taye made an appearance in the movie ‘Til Death Do Us Part’.
After joining the cast of Between Us, Diggs won the Grand Jury Prize when the film screened at the Bahamas International Film Festival. From 2014 to 2016, Diggs played a major role in the series “Murder in the First”. In these roles, Diggs appeared on reality shows such as “Lip Sync Battle” and “Hypnotize Me.” He also worked as a voice actor in animated film such as “My Little Pony: The Movie”. Additionally, Taye Diggs has written three children’s books.
Relations: In 2003, Taye Diggs married Idina Menzel, an actress he met while working on “Rent.” For the next ten years, they stayed together and welcomed a son into the world. By 2013, they were living separately, and by 2015 they had finalized their divorce. Inside sources said the split was amicable, and amid rumors suggesting otherwise, Idina claimed the split was the result of still incompatible schedules.
In a Hollywood rarity, their divorce proceedings also went off without a hitch. Since both partners were working actors with a secure source of income, neither received a divorce settlement and simply split all their joint assets down the middle. Even the custody of their child was split equally and they both continue to co-parent their son.
Real Estate: In 2011, Taye Diggs bought a property in Studio City for $2 million. The property has nearly 5,000 square feet of living space, 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. The house was perfect for his then-wife, Idina Menzel, and his only child, who was only 20 months old at the time. The property also has a luxurious family room connected to a gorgeous terrace through French doors. There are plenty of amenities in the outdoor area as well, including a deck, spa, treehouse, 3-car garage and manicured gardens.
After Diggs and Menzel announced their plans to separate after ten years of marriage, they also decided to sell their family home in Studio City. Although they originally listed the property for $2.995 million, they were ultimately forced to settle for a sale price of just $2.55 million. That’s still a notable profit margin on their initial $2 million investment, even if it’s not as much as they’d hoped.
