Phillipa Soo (born May 31, 1990) is an American actress best known for originating the role of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in the 2015 Broadway musical, Hamilton.

After graduating from Juilliard in 2012, Soo was cast as Natasha Rostova in the Ars Nova production of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, based on Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace; the show went on to transfer Off-Broadway to Kazino, a tent custom built for the show.

In 2013 she was cast in a small recurring role in the NBC television series Smash as the character Lexi. She appeared in five episodes in the second season before the show's cancellation.

After seeing her in Great Comet, director Thomas Kail and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda asked her to take part in an early 2014 reading of the musical Hamilton, where she read as the leading female role, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Soo remained with the show through its Off-Broadway and Broadway debuts. She has left the show to reprise a previous role in Amelie. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.