Jasmine Cephas Jones

Jones is the daughter of actor Ron Cephas Jones[4] and British-born jazz singer Kim Lesley. She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and Berklee College of Music, and graduated from Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in 2011.[5] She grew up in Midwood, Brooklyn, where she still lived as of 2015.[1]

Jones has made small appearances in multiple independent films, including Titus (2013) and Fairfield (2014). She has also appeared in episodes of Blue Bloods and Unforgettable.

In 2015, she originated the roles of Maria Reynolds and Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer in the original Off-Broadway production of Hamilton. When the show moved to Broadway, she continued in those roles, and remained with that production until December 8, 2016.[6] In 2016, she won a Grammy Award for her work as one of the principal soloists on the Hamilton cast album.[7]

In the 2017 Super Bowl, she, along with fellow Hamilton stars Renée Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo, sang "America the Beautiful".[8]

Jones also appears in the 2015 film Mistress America,[9] and in the 2018 film Dog Days.

In 2020 she appeared as a secondary character in the short series #Freerayshawn, winning an Emmy for her performance.

On December 24, 2018, Cephas Jones became engaged to fellow Hamilton original Broadway cast member Anthony Ramos, whom she met and began dating during rehearsals for the Off-Broadway production of Hamilton at The Public Theatre.[10]

• Jasmine Cephas Jones at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jasmine Cephas Jones at IMDb