Jaquel Spivey

Jaquel Spivey (born November 13, 1998) is an American actor. He won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for his starring role as Usher in the Broadway theatre production of A Strange Loop in 2022.

Personal life and career Spivey grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, raised by a single mother, before moving to New Jersey to live with his aunt.

He graduated from Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey. He was also nominated for a Distinguished Performance Award for the Drama League Awards, and won the Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Actor in a Musical and was honored with a Theatre World Award. A Strange Loop closed on Broadway in January 2023.

In December 2022, Spivey was cast as Damian Hubbard in Mean Girls, a film adaptation of the Broadway show of the same name, which itself is based on the 2004 film Mean Girls.

Filmography

Film YearTitleRoleNotes 2024 Mean Girls Damian Hubbard 2025 Queens of the Dead Sam

Television Year Title Role Notes 2026 The Beauty Jeremy (Pre Beauty) Episode: "Beautiful Pilot"

Theatre YearTitleRoleNotes 2022–2023 A Strange LoopUsherLyceum Theatre, Broadway

Awards and nominations