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Colman Domingo

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1969-11-28 (Age: 57)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

Filmography (52)

⭐ 0 Role: Hugo Wakefield

Disclosure Day

2026
⭐ 7.6 Role: Joseph Jackson

Michael

2026
⭐ 6.5 Role: Fred Temple

Dead Man's Wire

2026
⭐ 6.6 Role: The Cowardly Lion (voice)

Wicked: For Good

2025
⭐ 6.8 Role: Bobby T.

The Running Man

2025
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Chapter 51

2025
⭐ 6.5 Role: Wolfe (voice)

The Electric State

2025
⭐ 7.4 Role: John 'Divine G' Whitfield

Sing Sing

2024
⭐ 5.5 Role: The Chief

Drive-Away Dolls

2024
⭐ 3.3 Role: Self

Oprah & The Color Purple Journey

2023
⭐ 7.0 Role: Mister

The Color Purple

2023
⭐ 6.5 Role: Bayard Rustin

Rustin

2023
⭐ 7.2 Role: Arthur Gillman (voice)

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

2023
⭐ 7.2 Role: Unicron (voice)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

2023
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke

2022