Emmy Raver-Lampman

Emmy Raver-Lampman (born Emily Christine Raver Lampman on September 5, 1988) is an American actress and singer whose career spans Broadway, national touring productions, television, and film. She was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where she was adopted as a newborn. Her mother, Sharon, is a professor at Old Dominion University, and her father, Greg, is a writer and teacher. Raver-Lampman grew up as an only child, though she has a half-sister who is twenty years her junior. Her early years included extensive international travel across more than fifty countries, and she lived in the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and India during her childhood as a result of her mother's professional work.

Raver-Lampman attended the Governor's School for the Arts, a performing arts high school in Norfolk, as well as Maury High School. She subsequently enrolled at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Theater. While still a sophomore, she auditioned for and won a leading role in a May 2010 production of Children of Eden, produced by the Astoria Performing Arts Center, marking her first professional theater credit. She then joined the 2010 national tour of Hair, through which she earned her Equity card. The demands of her professional career led her to study remotely during her junior year and to temporarily leave school before completing her degree, though she ultimately returned and graduated in 2012.

Raver-Lampman made her Broadway debut in the summer of 2011, when the touring production of Hair returned to Broadway. After that production closed in September 2011, she joined the third national tour of Jekyll & Hyde as an ensemble member and understudy for the lead role of Lucy Harris. The tour transferred to Broadway in April 2013 for a limited engagement that closed after one month. Later in 2013, she was cast in the Broadway original production of A Night with Janis Joplin, where she performed as a swing until the show closed in February 2014. She was then cast in the first U.S. tour of Wicked as a standby for the lead role of Elphaba, a contract she fulfilled over the course of one year.

Returning to New York in March 2015, Raver-Lampman auditioned for Hamilton as the musical was expanding its ensemble following its Off-Broadway run. She was cast and joined the original Broadway company when the show opened in August 2015, serving as an ensemble member and understudy for the three principal female roles of Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy/Maria Reynolds. In September 2015, she participated in a reading of an original rock musical titled Galileo, and in December of that year she took part in an MCC Theater workshop of Alice By Heart. In January 2016, she was announced as Pearl Krabs in the Chicago tryout production of SpongeBob SquarePants. Raver-Lampman departed the Broadway company of Hamilton in April 2016 and is one of two original cast members who did not participate in the filming of that production. She rejoined Hamilton later in 2016 as part of the Chicago company, which began previews in September of that year. In March 2017, she joined the show's first national tour in the role of Angelica, performing in San Francisco and Los Angeles through the end of 2017.

In late 2019, Raver-Lampman was announced as a co-star of the new original musical Gun & Powder, directed by Robert O'Hara, alongside her former Hamilton castmate Solea Pfeiffer. The production had a month-long regional engagement in Arlington, Virginia, opening on January 28, 2020.

Raver-Lampman's transition into television began in 2017, when she was cast as Allison Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, opposite Elliot Page and Tom Hopper, among others. The series was filmed during the first half of 2018 and released on Netflix in February 2019, becoming the platform's third most-watched series that year with more than 45 million viewers. She filmed the second season over five months in 2019, with that season premiering in July 2020. Also in 2019, she had guest roles in A Million Little Things and Jane the Virgin. In July 2020, it was announced that Raver-Lampman would replace Kristen Bell as the voice of Molly Tillerman in the Apple TV+ animated series Central Park, following Bell's resignation from the role amid controversy over her portrayal of a mixed-race character. Raver-Lampman voiced Molly beginning in the show's second season.

Her film work includes a major role as Mira Jones in Blacklight and the role of FBI Agent Verona Parker in The Beekeeper. On the recording front, she is a company member on the Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording from 2015 and appeared as a featured artist on the 2019 album Seven Nights in Chicago by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, contributing to the tracks "At This Point" and "No Feels." Additional recording credits include featured appearances on Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal's Blindspotting: The Collin EP, Ryan Scott Oliver's concept album Three Points of Contact, and the Original Series Soundtrack for The Umbrella Academy.

In her personal life, Raver-Lampman is in a relationship with Daveed Diggs, whom she met in 2015 while both were performing in Hamilton. The couple announced the birth of their son in March 2024.