Colman Domingo
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 a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in the Netflix biopic Rustin (2023). 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), The Color Purple (2023), and Sing Sing (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Colman Domingo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2026 · The Dish as
- 2025 · The Running Man as Bobby Thompson
- 2025 · Michael as Joe Jackson
- 2025 · Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man as Norman Osborn (voice)
- 2024 · The Madness as Muncie Daniels
- 2024 · "Extraordinary" Pursuits as
- 2024 · Sing Sing as John 'Divine G' Whitfield
- 2024 · Chapter 51 as
- 2024 · Drive-Away Dolls as The Chief
- 2023 · Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2023 · Oprah & The Color Purple Journey as Self
- 2023 · The Color Purple as Mister
- 2023 · Rustin as Bayard Rustin
- 2023 · Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken as Arthur Gillman (voice)
- 2023 · You Are Here as Self
- 2023 · Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Unicron (voice)
- 2022 · When My Sleeping Dragon Woke as
- 2022 · The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
- 2022 · New Moon as Storyteller
- 2022 · Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self
- 2022 · North Star as
- 2021 · Candyman as William Burke
- 2021 · The God Committee as Father Dunbar
- 2021 · Zola as X
- 2021 · Tom Clancy's Without Remorse as Pastor West
- 2021 · Cinema Toast as Barrington
- 2020 · Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen as Self
- 2020 · Barbecue as James T
- 2020 · Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Cutler
- 2020 · Bottomless Brunch at Colman's as Self - Host
- 2019 · Lucy in the Sky as Frank Paxton
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · A Black Lady Sketch Show as Colman Domingo
- 2019 · Euphoria as Ali
- 2019 · The X Change Rate as Self - Special Guest
- 2019 · The Twilight Zone as Carl Weaber
- 2018 · If Beale Street Could Talk as Joseph Rivers
- 2018 · Assassination Nation as Principal Turrell
- 2018 · First Match as Coach Castile
- 2016 · Timeless as Bass Reeves
- 2016 · The Birth of a Nation as Hark
- 2016 · Horace and Pete as Dr. Evers
- 2016 · Lucifer as Father Frank Lawrence
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Fear the Walking Dead as Victor Strand
- 2015 · Beautiful Something as Drew
- 2014 · Selma as Ralph Abernathy
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2012 · Red Hook Summer as Blessing Rowe
- 2009 · Passing Strange as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
- 2008 · Miracle at St. Anna as West Indian Postal Customer
- 2007 · The Big Gay Sketch Show as
- Future · The Four Seasons as
- 2006 · Freedomland as Male Patient
- Future · Dead Man's Wire as
- 2014 · Time Out of Mind as Mr. Oyello
- 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Eddie (voice)
- 2014 · A Long Walk as Older Paul
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · Hairbrained as Finals Moderator
- 2013 · Newlyweeds as Chico
- 2013 · All Is Bright as Nzomo
- 2013 · The Butler as Freddie Fallows
- 2013 · 42 as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
- 2012 · Lincoln as Private Harold Green
- 2011 · Halloween Wars as Self - Guest Judge
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2005 · Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Gus Johnson
- 2005 · American Dad! as Stiles (voice)
- 2003 · Kung Phooey! as Roy Lee
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Andre Lanier
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Sergeant Ev Sides
- 2000 · Desi's Looking for a New Girl as Mother
- 1999 · True Crime as Wally Cartwright
- 1999 · King of the Bingo Game as Sonny
- 1998 · Around the Fire as Trace
- 1990 · Law & Order as Donnie
- 1990 · Law & Order as Defense Attorney Ronald Gumer
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Barbecue as
- Future · A Boy and His Soul as
- Future · Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic as Nathaniel Adams Coles/Nat King Cole
- Future · Nothingman as Otis Tremmel