Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo

Born 1969-11-28 (age 56) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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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

Michael
Michael

2026

as Joseph Jackson

Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day

2026

as Hugo Wakefield

The Running Man
The Running Man

2025

as Bobby T.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

2023

as Unicron (voice)

Wicked: For Good
Wicked: For Good

2025

as The Cowardly Lion (voice)

Dead Man's Wire
Dead Man's Wire

2026

as Fred Temple

The Electric State
The Electric State

2025

as Wolfe (voice)

Lincoln
Lincoln

2012

as Private Harold Green

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

2023

as Arthur Gillman (voice)

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

2021

as Pastor West

The Butler
The Butler

2013

as Freddie Fallows

Drive-Away Dolls
Drive-Away Dolls

2024

as The Chief

42
42

2013

as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)

The Color Purple
The Color Purple

2023

as Mister

Zola
Zola

2021

as X

Candyman
Candyman

2021

as William Burke

Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation

2018

as Principal Turrell

Selma
Selma

2014

as Ralph Abernathy

Sing Sing
Sing Sing

2024

as John 'Divine G' Whitfield

True Crime
True Crime

1999

as Wally Cartwright