Colman Domingo
Acting
- Born:
- 1969-11-28
- 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
Filmography
The Comebacker
Euphoria: A Look Back
Encountering the Unknown: Inside DISCLOSURE DAY
Chapter 51
FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY
Disclosure Day
Superbloom
Michael
Bear Grylls is Running Wild
Dead Man's Wire
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Wicked: For Good
The Running Man
The Four Seasons
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Electric State
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
The Madness
Sing Sing
Drive-Away Dolls
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
The Color Purple
Rustin
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
You Are Here
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
The Jennifer Hudson Show
New Moon
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
North Star
Last Meals
Candyman
The God Committee
Zola
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
Cinema Toast
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
Barbecue
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
Lucy in the Sky
The Tamron Hall Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Euphoria
The X Change Rate
The Twilight Zone
If Beale Street Could Talk
Nothingman
Assassination Nation
First Match
Culling Hens
Timeless
The Birth of a Nation
Horace and Pete
Lucifer
Time Out of Mind
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Fear the Walking Dead
Beautiful Something
Hot Ones
Selma
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
BoJack Horseman
A Long Walk
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Hairbrained
Newlyweeds
All Is Bright
The Butler
42
400 Boys
Lincoln
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
Red Hook Summer
Halloween Wars
Passing Strange
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Miracle at St. Anna
The Big Gay Sketch Show
The Graham Norton Show
Freedomland
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
American Dad!
Kung Phooey!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Desi's Looking for a New Girl
True Crime
King of the Bingo Game
Around the Fire
The Daily Show
Nash Bridges
Fearless
Law & Order
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Saturday Night Live
Tony Awards
The Oscars
The Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Unforgettable
A Boy and His Soul
True-ish
Strange Arrivals
An Innocent Girl
The Servant