
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2026
Disclosure Day
2026Michael as Joe Jackson
2026Dead Man's Wire as Fred Temple
2025Wicked: For Good as The Cowardly Lion (voice)
2025The Running Man as Bobby Thompson
2025The Four Seasons as Danny
2025Chapter 51
2025The Electric State as Wolfe (voice)
2025Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man as Norman Osborn (voice)
2024The Madness as Muncie Daniels
2024"Extraordinary" Pursuits
2024Sing Sing as John 'Divine G' Whitfield
2024Drive-Away Dolls as The Chief
2023Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2023Oprah & The Color Purple Journey as Self
2023The Color Purple as Mister
2023Rustin as Bayard Rustin
2023Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken as Arthur Gillman (voice)
2023You Are Here as Self
2023Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Unicron (voice)
2022When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
2022The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022New Moon as Storyteller
2022Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self
2022North Star
2021Candyman as William Burke
2021The God Committee as Father Dunbar
2021Zola as X
2021Tom Clancy's Without Remorse as Pastor West
2021Cinema Toast as Barrington
2020Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen as Self
2020Barbecue as James T
2020Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Cutler
2020Bottomless Brunch at Colman's as Self - Host
2019Lucy in the Sky as Frank Paxton
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2019A Black Lady Sketch Show as Colman Domingo
2019Euphoria as Ali
2019The X Change Rate as Self - Special Guest
2019The Twilight Zone as Carl Weaber
2018If Beale Street Could Talk as Joseph Rivers
2018Assassination Nation as Principal Turrell
2018First Match as Coach Castile
2016Culling Hens as Trader
2016Timeless as Bass Reeves
2016The Birth of a Nation as Hark
2016Horace and Pete as Dr. Evers
2016Lucifer as Father Frank Lawrence
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Fear the Walking Dead as Victor Strand
2015Beautiful Something as Drew
2014Selma as Ralph Abernathy
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Time Out of Mind as Mr. Oyello
2014BoJack Horseman as Eddie (voice)
2014A Long Walk as Older Paul
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013Hairbrained as Finals Moderator
2013Newlyweeds as Chico
2013All Is Bright as Nzomo
2013The Butler as Freddie Fallows
201342 as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
2013400 Boys as Talon
2012Lincoln as Private Harold Green
2012RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED as Self - Guest Judge
2012RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars as Self - Guest Judge
2012Red Hook Summer as Blessing Rowe
2011Halloween Wars as Self - Guest Judge
2009Passing Strange as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2008Miracle at St. Anna as West Indian Postal Customer
2007The Big Gay Sketch Show
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006Freedomland as Male Patient
2005Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Gus Johnson
2005American Dad! as Stiles (voice)
2003Kung Phooey! as Roy Lee
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Andre Lanier
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Sergeant Ev Sides
2000Desi's Looking for a New Girl as Mother
1999True Crime as Wally Cartwright
1999King of the Bingo Game as Sonny
1998Around the Fire as Trace
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996Nash Bridges as Trumpet Player
1996Nash Bridges as Desmond Kenner
1996Nash Bridges as Hassam
1990Law & Order as Donnie
1990Law & Order as Defense Attorney Ronald Gumer
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1953The Oscars as Self
1949The Emmy Awards as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
—True-ish
—Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic as Nathaniel Adams Coles/Nat King Cole
—A Boy and His Soul
—Nothingman as Otis Tremmel
—Strange Arrivals as Barney Hill








