

Colman Domingo
Actor · Director · WriterColman 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).
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- The Comebacker
The Comebacker
2027

Michael
2026
Joseph Jackson

Disclosure Day
2026
Hugo Wakefield

Dead Man's Wire
2026
Fred Temple

Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough: The Making of Michael
2026
Self

Chapter 51
2026
Christopher Demy

The Running Man
2025
Bobby T.

The Electric State
2025
Wolfe (voice)

Wicked: For Good
2025
The Cowardly Lion (voice)

Drive-Away Dolls
2024
The Chief

Sing Sing
2024
John 'Divine G' Whitfield

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
2023
Arthur Gillman (voice)

Rustin
2023
Bayard Rustin

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023
Unicron (voice)

The Color Purple
2023
Mister

Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2023
Self

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
Self

North Star
2022

New Moon
2022
Storyteller

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
2022

Zola
2021
X

Candyman
2021
William Burke

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021
Pastor West

The God Committee
2021
Father Dunbar

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020
Cutler

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
2020
Self

Barbecue
2020
James T

Lucy in the Sky
2019
Frank Paxton

Assassination Nation
2018
Principal Turrell

If Beale Street Could Talk
2018
Joseph Rivers

First Match
2018
Coach Castile
- Nothingman
Nothingman
2018
Otis Tremmel

The Birth of a Nation
2016
Hark
- Culling Hens
Culling Hens
2016
Trader

Time Out of Mind
2015
Mr. Oyello

Beautiful Something
2015
Drew

Selma
2014
Ralph Abernathy

A Long Walk
2014
Older Paul

Newlyweeds
2013
Chico

42
2013
Lawson Bowman (uncredited)

All Is Bright
2013
Nzomo

Hairbrained
2013
Finals Moderator

The Butler
2013
Freddie Fallows

400 Boys
2013
Talon

Lincoln
2012
Private Harold Green

Red Hook Summer
2012
Blessing Rowe

Passing Strange
2009
Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus

Miracle at St. Anna
2008
West Indian Postal Customer

Freedomland
2006
Male Patient

Kung Phooey!
2003
Roy Lee

Desi's Looking for a New Girl
2000
Mother

True Crime
1999
Wally Cartwright

King of the Bingo Game
1999
Sonny

Around the Fire
1998
Trace
- Unforgettable
Unforgettable
Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole

A Boy and His Soul
- True-ish
True-ish
- Strange Arrivals
Strange Arrivals
Barney Hill
- An Innocent Girl
An Innocent Girl
- The Servant
The Servant
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