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Colman Domingo

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

Nov 28, 1969 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Colman Jason Domingo (born November 28, 1969) is an American actor, playwright, and director. Prominent on both screen and stage since the 2010s, Domingo has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024. Domingo's early Broadway roles include the 2005 play Well and the 2008 musical Passing Strange. He gained acclaim for his role as Mr. Bones in the Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys (2011), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He reprised the role in the 2014 West End production, receiving a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical. In 2018, he wrote the book for the Broadway musical Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. After early roles in various incarnations of the Law & Order series and as part of the main cast for The Big Gay Sketch Show, Domingo had his breakthrough playing Victor Strand in the AMC series Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023). He gained wider acclaim for his recurring role as the recovering drug addict Ali on the HBO series Euphoria (2019–present), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2022. Domingo received consecutive nominations in 2024 and 2025 for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in the biopic Rustin and a prison inmate in the drama Sing Sing. His other notable film appearances include roles in Lincoln (2012), The Butler (2013), Selma (2014), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Zola (2021), and The Color Purple (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Colman Domingo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting
2026MichaelJoe Jackson
2026Disclosure DayHugo Wakefield
2026Dead Man's WireFred Temple
2025Chapter 51
2025The Running ManBobby T.
2025The Electric StateWolfe (voice)
2025Wicked: For GoodThe Cowardly Lion (voice)
2025The Four SeasonsDanny
2025Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-ManNorman Osborn (voice)
2024Drive-Away DollsThe Chief
2024Sing SingJohn 'Divine G' Whitfield
2024The MadnessMuncie Daniels
2023Ruby Gillman, Teenage KrakenArthur Gillman (voice)
2023RustinBayard Rustin
2023Transformers: Rise of the BeastsUnicron (voice)
2023The Color PurpleMister
2023Oprah & The Color Purple JourneySelf
2023You Are HereSelf
2023Off Script with The Hollywood ReporterSelf
2022Frederick Douglass: In Five SpeechesSelf
2022North Star
2022New MoonStoryteller
2022When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
2022The Jennifer Hudson ShowSelf
2021ZolaX
2021CandymanWilliam Burke
2021Tom Clancy's Without RemorsePastor West
2021The God CommitteeFather Dunbar
2021Cinema ToastBarrington
2020Ma Rainey's Black BottomCutler
2020Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to ScreenSelf
2020BarbecueJames T
2020Bottomless Brunch at Colman'sSelf - Host
2019Lucy in the SkyFrank Paxton
2019Tamron HallSelf - Guest
2019A Black Lady Sketch ShowColman Domingo
2019The Kelly Clarkson ShowSelf - Guest
2019The X Change RateSelf - Special Guest
2019The Twilight ZoneCarl Weaber
2019EuphoriaAli
2018Assassination NationPrincipal Turrell
2018If Beale Street Could TalkJoseph Rivers
2018First MatchCoach Castile
2018NothingmanOtis Tremmel
2016The Birth of a NationHark
2016Culling HensTrader
2016Horace and PeteDr. Evers
2016LuciferFather Frank Lawrence
2016TimelessBass Reeves
2015Time Out of MindMr. Oyello
2015Beautiful SomethingDrew
2015Fear the Walking DeadVictor Strand
2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf - Guest
2015Hot OnesSelf
2014SelmaRalph Abernathy
2014A Long WalkOlder Paul
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf
2014Variety Studio: Actors on ActorsSelf
2014BoJack HorsemanEddie (voice)
2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf
2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf - Guest
2013NewlyweedsChico
201342Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
2013All Is BrightNzomo
2013HairbrainedFinals Moderator
2013The ButlerFreddie Fallows
2013400 BoysTalon
2012LincolnPrivate Harold Green
2012Red Hook SummerBlessing Rowe
2012RuPaul's Drag Race All StarsSelf - Guest Judge
2012RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKEDSelf - Guest Judge
2011Halloween WarsSelf - Guest Judge
2009Passing StrangeMr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest
2008Miracle at St. AnnaWest Indian Postal Customer
2007The Big Gay Sketch Show
2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf
2006FreedomlandMale Patient
2005Law & Order: Trial by JuryGus Johnson
2005American Dad!Stiles (voice)
2003Kung Phooey!Roy Lee
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - Guest
2001Law & Order: Criminal IntentAndre Lanier
2001Law & Order: Criminal IntentSergeant Ev Sides
2000Desi's Looking for a New GirlMother
1999True CrimeWally Cartwright
1999King of the Bingo GameSonny
1998Around the FireTrace
1996The Daily ShowSelf - Guest
1996Nash BridgesTrumpet Player
1996Nash BridgesDesmond Kenner
1996Nash BridgesHassam
1990Law & OrderDonnie
1990Law & OrderDefense Attorney Ronald Gumer
1988LIVE with Kelly and MarkSelf - Guest
1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host
1956Tony AwardsSelf - Nominee
1953The OscarsSelf
1949The Emmy AwardsSelf
1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee / Presenter
1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Presenter
-UnforgettableNathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole
-A Boy and His Soul
-True-ish
-Strange ArrivalsBarney Hill
-An Innocent Girl
-The Comebacker
Production
2026Dead Man's WireExecutive Producer
2025National Theatre Live: RetrogradeProducer
2024Sing SingExecutive Producer
2024It's What's InsideExecutive Producer
2022New MoonProducer
2022When My Sleeping Dragon WokeExecutive Producer
2022North StarExecutive Producer
2021LeylakExecutive Producer
2020Bottomless Brunch at Colman'sExecutive Producer
2015Fear the Walking DeadProducer
Directing
2025The Four SeasonsDirector
2015Fear the Walking DeadDirector
-UnforgettableDirector
-Scandalous!Director
Writing
2022New MoonWriter
-UnforgettableWriter
-A Boy and His SoulWriter