Renée Elise Goldsberry is an American actress, singer, and songwriter, who, for Disney, voiced Dhahabu in The Lion Guard episode "The Golden Zebra". She also performed the "Muppet Babies Theme" and played Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton. She appears in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law as Mallory Book. Additionally, she portrayed Nala as a replacement in The Lion King musical production. She also voices Roxy in Eureka.
Goldsberry was born in San Jose, California and raised in both Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan; she was introduced to theater in summer camp when she was 8 years old. Renée's younger brother was shy, and their mother enrolled both of them in camp at the HITS Theater in Houston taught by Carolyn Franklin. After graduating from Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, she attended Carnegie Mellon University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in theater. She later attended graduate school at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where she received a Master of Music in jazz studies.
Gaining recognition in theater, Goldsberry's portrayal of Angelica Schuyler in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton earned her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and a shared Grammy Award. Her other theater credits include Dreamgirls, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Color Purple, The Baker's Wife, Rent, Love's Labour's Lost, As You Like It, and I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road.
She also appeared films, like Palco & Hirsch, All About You, Pistol Whipped, Every Secret Thing, Sisters, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, and Waves. Her television credits include Ally McBeal, Providence, One Life to Live, The Good Wife, Evil, Star Trek: Enterprise, Royal Pains, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, That '80s Show, Altered Carbon, Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Centaurworld, and Girls5eva.
