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Since playing Benjamin in the original Broadway cast of Rent, Taye has starred in the films How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Go, The Best Man, Chicago, and Set It Up and had series regular roles on the shows Private Practice, Murder in the First and All American. He also returned to the world of Rent for the 2005 film. After marrying co-star Idina Menzel in 2003 and welcoming a son Walker Nathaniel Diggs in 2009, the couple split in 2013.