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.
1 watch
🍿 5.0
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
as Unicron (voice)
Wicked: For Good (2025)
as The Cowardly Lion (voice)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023)
as Arthur Gillman (voice)
Lincoln (2012)
as Private Harold Green
The Electric State (2025)
as Wolfe (voice)
The Butler (2013)
as Freddie Fallows
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)
as Pastor West
42 (2013)
as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
Drive-Away Dolls (2024)
as The Chief
The Color Purple (2023)
as Mister
Euphoria: A Look Back (2026)
as Self
Sing Sing (2024)
as John 'Divine G' Whitfield
Dead Man's Wire (2026)
as Fred Temple
Candyman (2021)
as William Burke
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
as Joseph Rivers
Freedomland (2006)
as Male Patient
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
as Hark
Lizard Music (2027)
as (voice)
True Crime (1999)
as Wally Cartwright
Zola (2021)
as X
Selma (2014)
as Ralph Abernathy
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
as Cutler
Time Out of Mind (2015)
as Mr. Oyello
Assassination Nation (2018)
as Principal Turrell
Barbecue (2020)
as James T
400 Boys (2013)
as Talon
Superbloom (2026)
Actor
The Comebacker (2027)
Actor
First Match (2018)
as Coach Castile
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
as West Indian Postal Customer
FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY (2026)
as Himself
Encountering the Unknown: Inside DISCLOSURE DAY (2026)
as Self
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey (2023)
as Self
Fearless (1993)
as Hospital patient with nail in hand (uncredited)
Red Hook Summer (2012)
as Blessing Rowe
The God Committee (2021)
as Father Dunbar
Rustin (2023)
as Bayard Rustin
Lucy in the Sky (2019)
as Frank Paxton
An Innocent Girl (—)
Actor
Nothingman (2018)
as Otis Tremmel
The Servant (—)
as Barrett
New Moon (2022)
as Storyteller
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022)
as Self
All Is Bright (2013)
as Nzomo
A Long Walk (2014)
as Older Paul
Unforgettable (—)
as Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole
Hairbrained (2013)
as Finals Moderator
Chapter 51 (2026)
as Christopher Demy
Culling Hens (2016)
as Trader
Around the Fire (1998)
as Trace
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen (2020)
as Self
North Star (2022)
as James
King of the Bingo Game (1999)
as Sonny
Desi's Looking for a New Girl (2000)
as Mother
Beautiful Something (2015)
as Drew
Newlyweeds (2013)
as Chico
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke (2022)
Actor
Passing Strange (2009)
as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
Strange Arrivals (—)
as Barney Hill
Kung Phooey! (2003)
as Roy Lee
True-ish (—)
Actor
A Boy and His Soul (—)
Actor