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.

Filmography

• 2027The Comebacker
• 2026Chapter 51 — Christopher Demy
• 2026Dead Man's Wire — Fred Temple, Executive Producer
• 2026Disclosure Day — Hugo Wakefield
• 2026Michael — Joseph Jackson
• 2026Superbloom
• 2025National Theatre Live: Retrograde — Producer
• 2025The Electric State — Wolfe (voice)
• The Four Seasons — Danny, Director
• 2025The Running Man — Bobby T.
• 2025Wicked: For Good — The Cowardly Lion (voice)
• Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man — Norman Osborn (voice)
• 2024Drive-Away Dolls — The Chief
• 2024It's What's Inside — Executive Producer
• 2024Sing Sing — John 'Divine G' Whitfield, Executive Producer
• The Madness — Muncie Daniels
• 2023Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken — Arthur Gillman (voice)
• 2023Rustin — Bayard Rustin
• 2023The Color Purple — Mister
• 2023Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — Unicron (voice)
• 2022New Moon — Storyteller, Producer, Writer
• 2022North Star — James, Executive Producer
• 2022When My Sleeping Dragon Woke — Executive Producer
• 2021Candyman — William Burke
• Cinema Toast — Barrington
• 2021Leylak — Executive Producer
• 2021The God Committee — Father Dunbar
• 2021Tom Clancy's Without Remorse — Pastor West
• 2021Zola — X
• 2020Barbecue — James T
• Bottomless Brunch at Colman's — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• 2020Ma Rainey's Black Bottom — Cutler
• A Black Lady Sketch Show — Colman Domingo
• Euphoria — Ali
• 2019Lucy in the Sky — Frank Paxton
• The Twilight Zone — Carl Weaber
• 2018Assassination Nation — Principal Turrell
• 2018First Match — Coach Castile
• 2018If Beale Street Could Talk — Joseph Rivers
• 2018Nothingman — Otis Tremmel
• 2016Culling Hens — Trader
• Horace and Pete — Dr. Evers
• Lucifer — Father Frank Lawrence
• 2016The Birth of a Nation — Hark
• Timeless — Bass Reeves
• 2015Beautiful Something — Drew
• Fear the Walking Dead — Victor Strand, Director, Producer
• 2015Time Out of Mind — Mr. Oyello
• 2014A Long Walk — Older Paul
• BoJack Horseman — Eddie (voice)
• 2014Selma — Ralph Abernathy
• 2013400 Boys — Talon
• 201342 — Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
• 2013All Is Bright — Nzomo
• 2013Hairbrained — Finals Moderator
• 2013Newlyweeds — Chico
• 2013The Butler — Freddie Fallows
• 2012Lincoln — Private Harold Green
• 2012Red Hook Summer — Blessing Rowe
• 2009Passing Strange — Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
• 2008Miracle at St. Anna — West Indian Postal Customer
• The Big Gay Sketch Show
• 2006Freedomland — Male Patient
• American Dad! — Stiles (voice)
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury — Gus Johnson
• 2003Kung Phooey! — Roy Lee
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Andre Lanier, Sergeant Ev Sides
• 2000Desi's Looking for a New Girl — Mother
• 1999King of the Bingo Game — Sonny
• 1999True Crime — Wally Cartwright
• 1998Around the Fire — Trace
• Nash Bridges — Trumpet Player, Desmond Kenner, Hassam
• 1993Fearless — Hospital patient with nail in hand (uncredited)
• Law & Order — Donnie, Defense Attorney Ronald Gumer
• A Boy and His Soul — Writer
• An Innocent Girl
• Scandalous! — Director
• Strange Arrivals — Barney Hill
• The Servant — Barrett
• True-ish
• Unforgettable — Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole, Director, Writer
• Untitled The Princess and the Frog Live Action Spin-Off — Writer

Appearances as themselves (34)

• Bear Grylls is Running Wild — Self
• 2026Encountering the Unknown: Inside DISCLOSURE DAY — Self
• 2026Euphoria: A Look Back — Self
• 2026FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY — Himself
• Good Hang with Amy Poehler — Self - Guest
• Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — SElf
• Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• 2023Oprah & The Color Purple Journey — Self
• You Are Here — Self
• 2022Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches — Self
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self, Self - Guest
• Last Meals — Self
• 2020Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self - Guest
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• The X Change Rate — Self - Special Guest
• Hot Ones — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars — Self - Guest Judge
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED — Self - Guest Judge
• Halloween Wars — Self - Guest Judge
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest, Self - Guest Host
• The Daily Show — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee
• The Oscars — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee / Presenter, Self - Presenter