Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1969-09-21 (Age: 57)
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Billy Porter
Biography
William Ellis Porter II (born September 21, 1969) is an American actor and singer. Porter gained notice performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer and actor. For his role as Lola in Kinky Boots, Porter won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He credits the part for "cracking open" his feminine side to confront toxic masculinity. Porter also won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the musical's accompanying album. Porter starred in all three seasons of the television series Pose, for which he was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, becoming the first gay black man to be nominated and win in any lead acting category at the Primetime Emmys. In 2020, he was included on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2022, he won another Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop. He made his directorial debut in 2022 with the romantic comedy film Anything's Possible. Porter received the Isabelle Stevenson Award at the 77th Tony Awards for his humanitarian work with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and Entertainment Community Fund. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Porter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (37)
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
2026
Christmas Karma
2025
I Was Born This Way
2025
Disco's Revenge
2024
Eric André Live Near Broadway
2024
Queen of New York
2023
Our Son
2023
Truth Be Told
2023
Let the Canary Sing
2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
80 for Brady
2023
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!
2022
