Phillipa Soo
Phillipa Soo is best known for her lead role as Eliza in Broadway’s critically acclaimed show Hamilton, which she joined shortly after its inception. For her performance, she won the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Lead Actress in a Musical and was nominated for a 2016 Tony Award. Soo can be seen portraying Eliza in the recording of Hamilton on Disney+. After graduating from Juilliard in 2012, Soo was cast as Natasha Rostova in the Ars Nova and Off-Broadway production of Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. In 2007, Soo originated the title role in the Broadway production of Amelie. Most recently, Soo appeared on Broadway in The Parisian Woman, which ran from November 2017 to March 2018.
Additional theatre credits include Cinderella in Into the Woods, Brown in Guys and Dolls (The Kennedy Center)
In 2013 she was cast in a small recurring role in the NBC television series Smash as the character Lexi. Other TV and Film credits include Hamilton on Disney+ (Emmy Award nomination); “Dopesick” (Hulu); “Shining Girls” (AppleTV+); Over the Moon, Tick, Tick…Boom (Netflix); The One and Only Ivan (Disney+); The Broken Hearts Gallery; and Here and Now.