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