
Colman Domingo
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1969-11-28 (55 years old)
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Known For
Acting
Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic
as Nathaniel Adams Coles/Nat King Cole
Nothingman
as Otis Tremmel
Strange Arrivals
as Barney Hill
(2026)
(2025)
The Electric State
as Wolfe (voice)
(2025)
Michael
as Joe Jackson
(2025)
The Running Man
as Bobby Thompson
(2025)
(2024)
Sing Sing
as John 'Divine G' Whitfield
(2024)
Drive-Away Dolls
as The Chief
(2024)
(2023)
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
as Unicron (voice)
(2023)
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
as Arthur Gillman (voice)
(2023)
The Color Purple
as Mister
(2023)
Rustin
as Bayard Rustin
(2023)
(2022)
(2022)
New Moon
as Storyteller
(2022)
(2022)
(2021)
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
as Pastor West
(2021)
Candyman
as William Burke
(2021)
Zola
as X
(2021)
The God Committee
as Father Dunbar
(2020)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
as Cutler
(2020)
(2020)
Barbecue
as James T
(2019)
Lucy in the Sky
as Frank Paxton
(2018)
Assassination Nation
as Principal Turrell
(2018)
If Beale Street Could Talk
as Joseph Rivers
(2018)
First Match
as Coach Castile
(2016)
The Birth of a Nation
as Hark
(2015)
Beautiful Something
as Drew
(2014)
Selma
as Ralph Abernathy
(2014)
Time Out of Mind
as Mr. Oyello
(2014)
A Long Walk
as Older Paul
(2013)
The Butler
as Freddie Fallows
(2013)
42
as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
(2013)
Hairbrained
as Finals Moderator
(2013)
All Is Bright
as Nzomo
(2013)
400 Boys
as Talon
(2013)
Newlyweeds
as Chico
(2012)
Lincoln
as Private Harold Green
(2012)
Red Hook Summer
as Blessing Rowe
(2009)
Passing Strange
as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
(2008)
Miracle at St. Anna
as West Indian Postal Customer
(2006)
Freedomland
as Male Patient
(2003)
Kung Phooey!
as Roy Lee
(2000)
Desi's Looking for a New Girl
as Mother
(1999)
True Crime
as Wally Cartwright
(1999)
King of the Bingo Game
as Sonny
(1998)
Around the Fire
as Trace
Crew
Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic
Director, Writer
A Boy and His Soul
Writer
Scandalous!
Director
(2024)
Sing Sing
Executive Producer
(2024)
It's What's Inside
Executive Producer
(2022)
New Moon
Producer, Writer
(2022)
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
Executive Producer
(2022)
North Star
Executive Producer
(2021)
Leylak
Executive Producer