Colman Domingo
Acting • Born 1969-11-28
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.
Filmography
104 credits
Passing Strange
Movie • 2009
Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Movie • 2023
Arthur Gillman (voice)
Rustin
Movie • 2023
Bayard Rustin
Drive-Away Dolls
Movie • 2024
The Chief
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Movie • 2023
Unicron (voice)
The Color Purple
Movie • 2023
Mister
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Movie • 2022
Self
Lincoln
Movie • 2012
Private Harold Green
Sing Sing
Movie • 2024
John 'Divine G' Whitfield
Newlyweeds
Movie • 2013
Chico
North Star
Movie • 2022
New Moon
Movie • 2022
Storyteller
Selma
Movie • 2014
Ralph Abernathy
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
Movie • 2022
A Long Walk
Movie • 2014
Older Paul
42
Movie • 2013
Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
Michael
Movie • 2026
Joe Jackson
Unforgettable
Movie
Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
Movie • 2023
Self
The Birth of a Nation
Movie • 2016
Hark
Time Out of Mind
Movie • 2015
Mr. Oyello
Beautiful Something
Movie • 2015
Drew
Red Hook Summer
Movie • 2012
Blessing Rowe
Assassination Nation
Movie • 2018
Principal Turrell
If Beale Street Could Talk
Movie • 2018
Joseph Rivers
All Is Bright
Movie • 2013
Nzomo
True Crime
Movie • 1999
Wally Cartwright
First Match
Movie • 2018
Coach Castile
Lucy in the Sky
Movie • 2019
Frank Paxton
Nothingman
Movie • 2018
Otis Tremmel
Zola
Movie • 2021
X
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Movie • 2020
Cutler
Candyman
Movie • 2021
William Burke
Hairbrained
Movie • 2013
Finals Moderator
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
Movie • 2021
Pastor West
King of the Bingo Game
Movie • 1999
Sonny
Kung Phooey!
Movie • 2003
Roy Lee
Miracle at St. Anna
Movie • 2008
West Indian Postal Customer
Freedomland
Movie • 2006
Male Patient
The Butler
Movie • 2013
Freddie Fallows
Around the Fire
Movie • 1998
Trace
Desi's Looking for a New Girl
Movie • 2000
Mother
The God Committee
Movie • 2021
Father Dunbar
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
Movie • 2020
Self
Barbecue
Movie • 2020
James T
A Boy and His Soul
Movie
Disclosure Day
Movie • 2026
Chapter 51
Movie • 2025
The Running Man
Movie • 2025
Bobby T.
Dead Man's Wire
Movie • 2025
Fred Temple
The Electric State
Movie • 2025
Wolfe (voice)
400 Boys
Movie • 2013
Talon
True-ish
Movie
Strange Arrivals
Movie
Barney Hill
Culling Hens
Movie • 2016
Trader
Wicked: For Good
Movie • 2025
The Cowardly Lion (voice)
An Innocent Girl
Movie
The Big Gay Sketch Show
TV • 2007
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
TV • 2005
Gus Johnson
Tamron Hall
TV • 2019
Self - Guest
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Donnie
A Black Lady Sketch Show
TV • 2019
Colman Domingo
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Andre Lanier
Fear the Walking Dead
TV • 2015
Victor Strand
Horace and Pete
TV • 2016
Dr. Evers
Lucifer
TV • 2016
Father Frank Lawrence
Timeless
TV • 2016
Bass Reeves
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Halloween Wars
TV • 2011
Self - Guest Judge
You Are Here
TV • 2023
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV • 2022
Self
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2023
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Defense Attorney Ronald Gumer
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The X Change Rate
TV • 2019
Self - Special Guest
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Sergeant Ev Sides
BoJack Horseman
TV • 2014
Eddie (voice)
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Stiles (voice)
The Madness
TV • 2024
Muncie Daniels
The Four Seasons
TV • 2025
Danny
The Twilight Zone
TV • 2019
Carl Weaber
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
TV • 2025
Norman Osborn (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
TV • 2020
Self - Host
Cinema Toast
TV • 2021
Barrington
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
TV • 2012
Self - Guest Judge
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED
TV • 2012
Self - Guest Judge
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
The Emmy Awards
TV • 1949
Self
Nash Bridges
TV • 1996
Trumpet Player
Nash Bridges
TV • 1996
Desmond Kenner
Nash Bridges
TV • 1996
Hassam
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Euphoria
TV • 2019
Ali
Hot Ones
TV • 2015
Self