Colman Domingo
Born November 28, 1969 (Age: 56)
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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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Filmography
Dead Man's Wire
2026
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as Fred Temple
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Age: 56
Wicked: For Good
2025
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as The Cowardly Lion (voice)
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Age: 55
The Running Man
2025
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as Bobby T.
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Age: 55
Sing Sing
2024
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as John 'Divine G' Whitfield
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Age: 54
Drive-Away Dolls
2024
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as The Chief
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Age: 54
The Color Purple
2023
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as Mister
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Age: 54
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
2023
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as Arthur Gillman (voice)
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Age: 53
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023
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as Unicron (voice)
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Age: 53
Candyman
2021
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as William Burke
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Age: 51
Zola
2021
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as X
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Age: 51
Lucy in the Sky
2019
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as Frank Paxton
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Age: 49
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018
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as Joseph Rivers
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Age: 49
Assassination Nation
2018
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as Principal Turrell
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Age: 48
No Image
Culling Hens
2016
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as Trader
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Age: 46
The Birth of a Nation
2016
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as Hark
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Age: 46
Time Out of Mind
2015
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as Mr. Oyello
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Age: 45
Selma
2014
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as Ralph Abernathy
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Age: 45
The Butler
2013
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as Freddie Fallows
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Age: 43
42
2013
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as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
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Age: 43
Lincoln
2012
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as Private Harold Green
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Age: 42
Red Hook Summer
2012
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as Blessing Rowe
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Age: 42
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
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as West Indian Postal Customer
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Age: 38
Freedomland
2006
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as Male Patient
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Age: 36
Desi's Looking for a New Girl
2000
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as Mother
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Age: 30
True Crime
1999
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as Wally Cartwright
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Age: 29