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Colman Domingo

Date of birth: 1969-11-28

Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for: Acting

Also known as: Coleman Domingo, קולמן דומניגו, Colman Jason Domingo, کلمن دومینگو

Colman Domingo

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.

Movie Credits

Passing Strange
2.4

Passing Strange

2009-08-21

A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
3.6

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

2023-06-28

Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the wa

Rustin
3.3

Rustin

2023-11-03

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights his

Drive-Away Dolls
2.7

Drive-Away Dolls

2024-02-22

Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her demure fr

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
3.6

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

2023-06-06

When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots mu

The Color Purple
3.5

The Color Purple

2023-12-25

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie fac

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
3

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

2022-02-23

Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in

Lincoln
3.4

Lincoln

2012-11-09

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divide

Sing Sing
3.7

Sing Sing

2024-07-12

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre

Newlyweeds
2

Newlyweeds

2013-09-18

A match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry when Lyle can't decide which matt

North Star
2.1

North Star

2022-01-15

A rural rancher sacrifices everything to care for his dying husband as his sister-in-law and a pair

New Moon
0

New Moon

2022-07-16

An imaginative surrealist journey of young Jay Jay and his mother Edie. Their inner city dreams are

Selma
3.7

Selma

2014-12-25

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
0

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke

2022-10-12

A little girl lives in a custodian apartment inside a New York Public Library, where her father stok

A Long Walk
3.8

A Long Walk

2014-03-25

A father humiliates his son by parading him through the neighborhood in women's clothing in front of

42
3.6

42

2013-04-12

In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball facing unabash

Michael
0

Michael

2026-04-22

The story of Michael Jackson's life beyond the music, tracing his journey from the discovery of his

Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic
0

Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic

Legendary singer, actor, and jazz pianist Nat King Cole was prominent in the mid-1900s. Though he pa

Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
1.6

Oprah & The Color Purple Journey

2023-12-28

A behind-the-scenes look into the making of the new feature film “The Color Purple,” and the impact

The Birth of a Nation
3.3

The Birth of a Nation

2016-09-09

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans

Time Out of Mind
2.8

Time Out of Mind

2014-09-07

Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling

Beautiful Something
2.6

Beautiful Something

2015-04-26

Four diverse gay men navigate art, sex and love in one sublime night.

Red Hook Summer
2.8

Red Hook Summer

2012-08-10

When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the g

"Extraordinary" Pursuits
0

"Extraordinary" Pursuits

2024-08-15

“Extraordinary Pursuits,” a short film created by trailblazing visual artist Tyler Mitchell to celeb

Assassination Nation
3.1

Assassination Nation

2018-09-21

After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American to

If Beale Street Could Talk
3.5

If Beale Street Could Talk

2018-12-14

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name

All Is Bright
2.7

All Is Bright

2013-09-10

Two ne’er-do-wells from Quebec travel to New York City with a scheme to get rich quick selling Chris

True Crime
3.3

True Crime

1999-03-19

Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's fa

First Match
3.2

First Match

2018-03-12

Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides th

Lucy in the Sky
2.5

Lucy in the Sky

2019-09-20

Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and

Nothingman
0

Nothingman

A homeless alcoholic living on Skid Row dons himself a Private Investigator to solve cases for other

Zola
3.1

Zola

2021-06-30

A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domi

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
3.3

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

2020-11-25

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording s

Candyman
3

Candyman

2021-08-25

A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins

Hairbrained
2.7

Hairbrained

2013-11-25

A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
3.5

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

2021-04-29

An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his

King of the Bingo Game
0

King of the Bingo Game

1999-01-26

Harlem, 1943. Sonny is a struggling African American who frequents the bingo parlor in a desperate a

Kung Phooey!
2.6

Kung Phooey!

2003-03-11

The plot follows Art Chew's (a pun of the sound one makes when sneezing) quest to retrieve the ancie

Miracle at St. Anna
3.1

Miracle at St. Anna

2008-09-15

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black

Around the Fire
1.7

Around the Fire

1998-09-26

Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton grad

Desi's Looking for a New Girl
0.7

Desi's Looking for a New Girl

2000-06-16

After her live-in lover leaves her for another woman, Desi, a young artist, gets incredibly depresse

Freedomland
2.6

Freedomland

2006-02-17

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial pro

The Butler
3.7

The Butler

2013-08-16

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler fro

The God Committee
3.3

The God Committee

2021-07-02

Medicine, money and morality clash when a hospital's Heart Transplant Selection Committee has only m

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
3.1

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen

2020-12-18

Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, George C. Wolfe and more share the heart, soul and history that brou

Barbecue
0

Barbecue

2020-12-10

The O’Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and rousing straight talk wh

A Boy and His Soul
0

A Boy and His Soul

The award-winning story of a boy's coming of age amidst the soul music of '70's and '80's Philadelph

Disclosure Day
0

Disclosure Day

2026-06-10

If you found out we weren’t alone in the universe, would that frighten you?

Chapter 51
0

Chapter 51

2025-04-14

Multiple actresses playing the same role have died during production of the film Dissident. In his s

The Running Man
3.4

The Running Man

2025-11-11

Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's ch

Dead Man's Wire
0

Dead Man's Wire

2026-01-09

Set in 1977 and based on a true story, Tony Kiritsis, a former real estate developer puts a dead man

The Electric State
3.2

The Electric State

2025-03-07

An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up wit

400 Boys
0

400 Boys

2013-01-01

True-ish
0

True-ish

Follows Janet Paine, a well-intentioned but deeply insecure Manhattan PR executive with a specialty

Strange Arrivals
0

Strange Arrivals

Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple, in 1961, became the first reported case of an alien ab

Culling Hens
1

Culling Hens

2016-11-01

A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Una

Wicked: For Good
3.4

Wicked: For Good

2025-11-19

As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one fi