
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.
Filmography

The Dish

The Running Man

Michael

Chapter 51

The Electric State

"Extraordinary" Pursuits

Sing Sing

Drive-Away Dolls

Oprah & The Color Purple Journey

The Color Purple

Rustin

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke

New Moon

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

North Star

Candyman

The God Committee

Zola

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen

Barbecue

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Lucy in the Sky

If Beale Street Could Talk

Assassination Nation

First Match

The Birth of a Nation

Beautiful Something

Selma

Time Out of Mind

A Long Walk

Hairbrained

Newlyweeds

All Is Bright

The Butler

42

400 Boys

Lincoln

Red Hook Summer

Passing Strange

Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic

Barbecue

True Crime

Nothingman

Miracle at St. Anna

Freedomland

Kung Phooey!

Desi's Looking for a New Girl

King of the Bingo Game

Around the Fire

A Boy and His Soul

Dead Man's Wire

True-ish
