Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 28, 1969
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits
116 titles
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
The Comebacker
Euphoria: A Look Back
Self
Chapter 51
Christopher Demy
Disclosure Day
Hugo Wakefield
Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough: The Making of Michael
Self
Superbloom
Michael
Joseph Jackson
Bear Grylls is Running Wild
Self
Dead Man's Wire
Fred Temple
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
SElf
Wicked: For Good
The Cowardly Lion (voice)
The Running Man
Bobby T.
National Theatre Live: Retrograde
Producer
The Four Seasons
Danny
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Electric State
Wolfe (voice)
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Norman Osborn (voice)
The Madness
Muncie Daniels
Sing Sing
John 'Divine G' Whitfield
Drive-Away Dolls
The Chief
It's What's Inside
Executive Producer
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
Self
The Color Purple
Mister
Rustin
Bayard Rustin
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Arthur Gillman (voice)
You Are Here
Self
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Unicron (voice)
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self
New Moon
Storyteller
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Self
North Star
Last Meals
Self
Candyman
William Burke
The God Committee
Father Dunbar
Zola
X
Leylak
Executive Producer
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
Pastor West
Cinema Toast
Barrington
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
Self
Barbecue
James T
Euphoria Special Episodes
Ali Muhammad
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Cutler
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
Self - Host
Lucy in the Sky
Frank Paxton
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
A Black Lady Sketch Show
Colman Domingo
Euphoria
Ali