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

Michael

Law & Order

Law & Order

Disclosure Day

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

American Dad!

Euphoria

All Movies (60)

• Chapter 512026 · as Christopher Demy
• Disclosure Day2026 · as Hugo Wakefield
• Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough: The Making of Michael2026 · as Self
• Michael2026 · as Joseph Jackson
• Dead Man's Wire2026 · as Fred Temple
• Wicked: For Good2025 · as The Cowardly Lion (voice)
• The Running Man2025 · as Bobby T.
• The Electric State2025 · as Wolfe (voice)
• Sing Sing2024 · as John 'Divine G' Whitfield
• Drive-Away Dolls2024 · as The Chief
• Oprah & The Color Purple Journey2023 · as Self
• The Color Purple2023 · as Mister
• Rustin2023 · as Bayard Rustin
• Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken2023 · as Arthur Gillman (voice)
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts2023 · as Unicron (voice)
• When My Sleeping Dragon Woke2022
• New Moon2022 · as Storyteller
• Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches2022 · as Self
• North Star2022
• Candyman2021 · as William Burke
• The God Committee2021 · as Father Dunbar
• Zola2021 · as X
• Tom Clancy's Without Remorse2021 · as Pastor West
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen2020 · as Self
• Barbecue2020 · as James T
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom2020 · as Cutler
• Lucy in the Sky2019 · as Frank Paxton
• If Beale Street Could Talk2018 · as Joseph Rivers
• Nothingman2018 · as Otis Tremmel
• Assassination Nation2018 · as Principal Turrell
• First Match2018 · as Coach Castile
• Culling Hens2016 · as Trader
• The Birth of a Nation2016 · as Hark
• Time Out of Mind2015 · as Mr. Oyello
• Beautiful Something2015 · as Drew
• Selma2014 · as Ralph Abernathy
• A Long Walk2014 · as Older Paul
• Hairbrained2013 · as Finals Moderator
• Newlyweeds2013 · as Chico
• All Is Bright2013 · as Nzomo
• The Butler2013 · as Freddie Fallows
• 422013 · as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
• 400 Boys2013 · as Talon
• Lincoln2012 · as Private Harold Green
• Red Hook Summer2012 · as Blessing Rowe
• Passing Strange2009 · as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
• Miracle at St. Anna2008 · as West Indian Postal Customer
• Freedomland2006 · as Male Patient
• Kung Phooey!2003 · as Roy Lee
• Desi's Looking for a New Girl2000 · as Mother
• True Crime1999 · as Wally Cartwright
• King of the Bingo Game1999 · as Sonny
• Around the Fire1998 · as Trace
• Unforgettable— · as Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole
• A Boy and His Soul—
• True-ish—
• Strange Arrivals— · as Barney Hill
• An Innocent Girl—
• The Servant— · as Barrett
• The Comebacker—

All TV Shows (52)

• Bear Grylls is Running Wild2026 · as Self
• Variety & CNN Actors on Actors2025 · as SElf
• The Four Seasons2025 · as Danny
• Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man2025 · as Norman Osborn (voice)
• The Madness2024 · as Muncie Daniels
• Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter2023 · as Self
• You Are Here2023 · as Self
• The Jennifer Hudson Show2022 · as Self
• The Jennifer Hudson Show2022 · as Self - Guest
• Cinema Toast2021 · as Barrington
• Euphoria Special Episodes2020 · as Ali Muhammad
• Bottomless Brunch at Colman's2020 · as Self - Host
• Tamron Hall2019 · as Self - Guest
• The Kelly Clarkson Show2019 · as Self - Guest
• A Black Lady Sketch Show2019 · as Colman Domingo
• Euphoria2019 · as Ali
• The X Change Rate2019 · as Self - Special Guest
• The Twilight Zone2019 · as Carl Weaber
• Timeless2016 · as Bass Reeves
• Horace and Pete2016 · as Dr. Evers
• Lucifer2016 · as Father Frank Lawrence
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Fear the Walking Dead2015 · as Victor Strand
• Hot Ones2015 · as Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
• BoJack Horseman2014 · as Eddie (voice)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED2012 · as Self - Guest Judge
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars2012 · as Self - Guest Judge
• Halloween Wars2011 · as Self - Guest Judge
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• The Big Gay Sketch Show2007
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury2005 · as Gus Johnson
• American Dad!2005 · as Stiles (voice)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Andre Lanier
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Sergeant Ev Sides
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self - Guest
• Nash Bridges1996 · as Trumpet Player
• Nash Bridges1996 · as Desmond Kenner
• Nash Bridges1996 · as Hassam
• Law & Order1990 · as Donnie
• Law & Order1990 · as Defense Attorney Ronald Gumer
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988 · as Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Host
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• The Emmy Awards1949 · as Self
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee / Presenter
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Presenter