EXCLUSIVE:Christopher Jackson (Hamilton, Bull) and LeRoy McClain (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Respect) have joined the cast of HBO Max’s Sex and the City revival And Just Like That... in recurring roles.
Jackson will portray Herbert Wexley, a successful Manhattan hedge fund banker and husband to documentarian and…
EXCLUSIVE:Disney Junior’s Emmy and BAFTA Award-nominated animated series Vampirina has lined up a roster of season 3 guest stars from both Broadway and television, including Audra McDonald and, from Hamilton, Christopher Jackson and Taran Killam, among others.
Season 3 of Disney Junior’s Vampirina premieres Monday…
EXCLUSIVE: As the much-anticipated Hamilton film debuts on Disney+ Friday and Hulu’s We Are Freestyle Love Supreme gets a July 17 premiere date, actor Christopher Jackson has signed with CAA, Deadline has learned exclusively.
Jackson stars in director Thomas Kail’s Hamilton as George Washington, the character he…
In addition to the July 3 release of the filmed version of the Tony-winning musical Hamilton,Disney+ and TheUndefeated.com will put more shine on the groundbreaking musical with the special The Undefeated Presents: Hamilton In-Depth with Kelley Carter, which will debut on the same day.
In the first collaboration…
Before Hamilton and In The Heights, there was Freestyle Love Supreme, an improv hip-hop group in which Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale, among others, traded off-the-cuff rhymes the way Second City actors swapped jokes.
Created by Miranda, Kail and Veneziale in the summer of…
Christopher Jackson originated the role of President George Washington for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway smash Hamilton – a role he’ll reprise in the film version, set to debut on Disney+ July 3 – and plays Chunk Palmer, the fashion-minded ex-football player who readies clients for trial on CBS’s Bull and, when the…
The world is turned upside down, but Lin-Manuel Miranda is offering something to help us all get through it.
The Hamiltoncreator has issued a free cut from the Broadway smash musical called I Have This Friend. He tweeted it out this afternoon and linked to the SoundCloud service. The raw track features Miranda and Chr…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your morning report: A host of Broadway actors have been recruited for guest voice roles on Season 3 of Disney Junior’s The Lion Guard.
Among those headed from the Main Stem to the Pride Lands are Christopher Jackson and Heather Headley, who will sing a duet as Makini the mandrill’s parents Fikiri…
EXCLUSIVE: Picture the beleaguered General’s tent on a day when the war is going poorly and the prospects couldn’t be worse. An ambitious young man arrives; for his first personal encounter with the legendary leader. This is pretty much how the Alexander Hamilton/George Washington thing begins in…
Christopher Jackson, who plays George Washington in the Broadway smash hit musical Hamilton, has been cast in the CBS drama pilot Bull, from Amblin TV and CBS TV Studios.
Written by Phil McGraw and Paul Attanasio, Bull is based on popular daytime talk-show host Dr. Phil's early days as head of one of the most prolific…