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Okierete Onaodowan is a Grammy Award-winning stage, film, and television actor known for his acclaimed performances on Broadway including originating the roles of Hercules Mulligan and James Madison in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning production, Hamilton. Since making his Broadway debut in 2012, Onaodowan has also starred in productions of both Cyrano de Bergerac and Rocky. He was most recently seen playing the lead role of Pierre in Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. His off-Broadway work includes Hamilton at the Public, Luce, Neighbors, and Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment as well as the first national tour of American Idiot. On television, Onaodowan recently wrapped his lauded five-season run as Dean Miller on the ABC/Shondaland Grey's Anatomy hit spinoff series, Station 19. He will soon be seen taking on the title role in AMC’s forthcoming series Demascus, a comedic sci-fi series from playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, as well as starring as a series regular alongside John Krasinski for the upcoming third season Amazon’s Jack Ryan. Previously, Onaodowan was directed by Krasinski in the recent feature A Quiet Place 2. He has also appeared as Brandon in Generation Wrecks, and as Cal in The Super. He previously starred in Person to Person as Lester, alongside Michael Cera, in Thanks for Sharing alongside Mark Ruffalo and Gwyneth Paltrow, in the short film Prom and as Ben in the short film, Anna & The Asteroid. Additional television credits include Afrika Bambaataa on Netflix and Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down, a recurring role on HBO's Ballers, alongside Dwayne Johnson, as Raneed on HBO's hit series Girls as well as Law & Order: SVU, NYC 22 and Gravity.