
Colman Domingo
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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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Credits

Disclosure Day (2026)
as Hugo Wakefield
2 watches
🍿 2.0

Michael (2026)
as Joseph Jackson
1 watch
🍿 0.5

The Running Man (2025)
as Bobby T.

Wicked: For Good (2025)
as The Cowardly Lion (voice)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
as Unicron (voice)

The Electric State (2025)
as Wolfe (voice)

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)
as Arthur Gillman (voice)

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)
as Pastor West

42 (2013)
as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)

Lincoln (2012)
as Private Harold Green

Candyman (2021)
as William Burke

Euphoria: A Look Back (2026)
as Self

The Color Purple (2023)
as Mister

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
as Joseph Rivers

Dead Man's Wire (2026)
as Fred Temple

Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
as The Chief

True Crime (1999)
as Wally Cartwright

Assassination Nation (2018)
as Principal Turrell

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
as Cutler

The Birth of a Nation (2016)
as Hark

The Butler (2013)
as Freddie Fallows

Sing Sing (2024)
as John 'Divine G' Whitfield

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
as West Indian Postal Customer

Selma (2014)
as Ralph Abernathy

Freedomland (2006)
as Male Patient

Rustin (2023)
as Bayard Rustin

Fearless (1993)
as Hospital patient with nail in hand (uncredited)

Zola (2021)
as X

The God Committee (2021)
as Father Dunbar

Lucy in the Sky (2019)
as Frank Paxton

Time Out of Mind (2015)
as Mr. Oyello

400 Boys (2013)
as Talon

First Match (2018)
as Coach Castile

Barbecue (2020)
as James T

Superbloom (2026)
Actor

All Is Bright (2013)
as Nzomo

Oprah & The Color Purple Journey (2023)
as Self
The Comebacker (2027)
Actor

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen (2020)
as Self

Hairbrained (2013)
as Finals Moderator

Red Hook Summer (2012)
as Blessing Rowe

Chapter 51 (2026)
as Christopher Demy
Nothingman (2018)
as Otis Tremmel
The Servant (—)
as Barrett

FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY (2026)
as Himself

Encountering the Unknown: Inside DISCLOSURE DAY (2026)
as Himself

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022)
as Self

New Moon (2022)
as Storyteller

Beautiful Something (2015)
as Drew
An Innocent Girl (—)
Actor

Kung Phooey! (2003)
as Roy Lee
Culling Hens (2016)
as Trader

North Star (2022)
Actor
Unforgettable (—)
as Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole

Around the Fire (1998)
as Trace

Passing Strange (2009)
as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
Strange Arrivals (—)
as Barney Hill
True-ish (—)
Actor

A Long Walk (2014)
as Older Paul

King of the Bingo Game (1999)
as Sonny

Desi's Looking for a New Girl (2000)
as Mother

Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough: The Making of Michael (2026)
as Self

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke (2022)
Actor

A Boy and His Soul (—)
Actor

Newlyweeds (2013)
as Chico





