Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 28, 1969
Place of Birth:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Colman Domingo
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Dish | |
| 2025 | Michael | Joe Jackson |
| 2025 | Chapter 51 | |
| 2025 | The Running Man | Bobby Thompson |
| 2025 | The Electric State | Wolfe (voice) |
| 2024 | Drive-Away Dolls | The Chief |
| 2024 | Sing Sing | John 'Divine G' Whitfield |
| 2024 | "Extraordinary" Pursuits | |
| 2023 | Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken | Arthur Gillman (voice) |
| 2023 | Rustin | Bayard Rustin |
| 2023 | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Unicron (voice) |
| 2023 | The Color Purple | Mister |
| 2023 | Oprah & The Color Purple Journey | Self |
| 2022 | Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | Self |
| 2022 | North Star | |
| 2022 | New Moon | Storyteller |
| 2022 | When My Sleeping Dragon Woke | |
| 2021 | Zola | X |
| 2021 | Candyman | William Burke |
| 2021 | Tom Clancy's Without Remorse | Pastor West |
| 2021 | The God Committee | Father Dunbar |
| 2020 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Cutler |
| 2020 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen | Self |
| 2020 | Barbecue | James T |
| 2019 | Lucy in the Sky | Frank Paxton |
| 2018 | Assassination Nation | Principal Turrell |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Joseph Rivers |
| 2018 | First Match | Coach Castile |
| 2016 | The Birth of a Nation | Hark |
| 2015 | Beautiful Something | Drew |
| 2014 | Selma | Ralph Abernathy |
| 2014 | A Long Walk | Older Paul |
| 2014 | Time Out of Mind | Mr. Oyello |
| 2013 | Newlyweeds | Chico |
| 2013 | 42 | Lawson Bowman (uncredited) |
| 2013 | All Is Bright | Nzomo |
| 2013 | Hairbrained | Finals Moderator |
| 2013 | The Butler | Freddie Fallows |
| 2013 | 400 Boys | Talon |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Private Harold Green |
| 2012 | Red Hook Summer | Blessing Rowe |
| 2009 | Passing Strange | Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus |
| 2008 | Miracle at St. Anna | West Indian Postal Customer |
| 2006 | Freedomland | Male Patient |
| 2003 | Kung Phooey! | Roy Lee |
| 2000 | Desi's Looking for a New Girl | Mother |
| 1999 | True Crime | Wally Cartwright |
| 1999 | King of the Bingo Game | Sonny |
| 1998 | Around the Fire | Trace |
| Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic | Nathaniel Adams Coles/Nat King Cole | |
| Nothingman | Otis Tremmel | |
| A Boy and His Soul | ||
| Dead Man's Wire | ||
| True-ish | ||
| Strange Arrivals | Barney Hill |