ABOUT LESLIE ODOM JR.
Broadway, television and film actor whose best known stage role was as Aaron Burr in the musical Hamilton , earning him a nomination for a 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. He was also well known as Sam Strickland in NBC's Smash .
He studied musical theater at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. His debut Broadway role came at the age of 17 when he played Paul in Rent .
He has had re-occurring roles on television in CSI: Miami , Vanished, Big Day, Person of Interest and Law & Order: SVU . He released a self-titled jazz album in August of 2014.
Born in Queens, he grew up in Philadelphia and moved to Los Angeles in 2003. In 2012 he married Nicolette Robinson ; they welcomed a daughter named Lucille in April 2017. In March 2021, their son Able Phineas was born.
He starred alongside Jonathan Groff in the musical Hamilton.
