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