
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.
Acting (51 movies)

Passing Strange
2009

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
2023

Rustin
2023

Drive-Away Dolls
2024

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023

The Color Purple
2023

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022

Lincoln
2012

Sing Sing
2024

Newlyweeds
2013

North Star
2022

New Moon
2022

Selma
2014

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
2022

A Long Walk
2014

42
2013

Michael
2026

Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2023

The Birth of a Nation
2016

Time Out of Mind
2014

Beautiful Something
2015

Red Hook Summer
2012

"Extraordinary" Pursuits
2024

Assassination Nation
2018

If Beale Street Could Talk
2018

All Is Bright
2013

True Crime
1999

First Match
2018

Lucy in the Sky
2019

Zola
2021

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020

Candyman
2021

Hairbrained
2013

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021

King of the Bingo Game
1999

Kung Phooey!
2003

Miracle at St. Anna
2008

Around the Fire
1998

Desi's Looking for a New Girl
2000

Freedomland
2006

The Butler
2013

The God Committee
2021

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

Barbecue
2020

The Dish
2026

Chapter 51
2025

The Running Man
2025

Dead Man's Wire
2025

The Electric State
2025

400 Boys
2013

Wicked: For Good
2025
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Leylak | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| North Star | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| New Moon | 2022 | Producer |
| New Moon | 2022 | Writer |
| When My Sleeping Dragon Woke | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| It's What's Inside | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Sing Sing | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| National Theatre Live: Retrograde | 2025 | Producer |