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Colman Domingo
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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, receiv…
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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.
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Lizard Music
as (voice)
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The Comebacker
Euphoria: A Look Back
as Self
Encountering the Unknown: Inside DISCLOSURE DAY
as Self
Chapter 51
as Christopher Demy
FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY
as Himself
Disclosure Day
as Hugo Wakefield
Superbloom
Michael
as Joseph Jackson
Dead Man's Wire
as Fred Temple
Wicked: For Good
as The Cowardly Lion (voice)
The Running Man
as Bobby T.
The Electric State
as Wolfe (voice)
Sing Sing
as John 'Divine G' Whitfield
Drive-Away Dolls
as The Chief
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
as Self
The Color Purple
as Mister
Rustin
as Bayard Rustin
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
as Arthur Gillman (voice)
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
as Unicron (voice)
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
New Moon
as Storyteller
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
North Star
as James
Candyman
as William Burke
The God Committee
as Father Dunbar
Zola
as X
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
as Pastor West
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
as Self
Barbecue
as James T
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
as Cutler
Lucy in the Sky
as Frank Paxton
If Beale Street Could Talk
as Joseph Rivers
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Nothingman
as Otis Tremmel
Assassination Nation
as Principal Turrell
First Match
as Coach Castile
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Culling Hens
as Trader
The Birth of a Nation
as Hark
Time Out of Mind
as Mr. Oyello
Beautiful Something
as Drew
Selma
as Ralph Abernathy
A Long Walk
as Older Paul
Hairbrained
as Finals Moderator
Newlyweeds
as Chico
All Is Bright
as Nzomo
The Butler
as Freddie Fallows
42
as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
400 Boys
as Talon
Lincoln
as Private Harold Green
Red Hook Summer
as Blessing Rowe
Passing Strange
as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
Miracle at St. Anna
as West Indian Postal Customer
Freedomland
as Male Patient
Kung Phooey!
as Roy Lee
Desi's Looking for a New Girl
as Mother
True Crime
as Wally Cartwright
King of the Bingo Game
as Sonny
Around the Fire
as Trace
Fearless
as Hospital patient with nail in hand (uncredited)
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An Innocent Girl
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Unforgettable
as Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole
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The Servant
as Barrett
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Strange Arrivals
as Barney Hill
A Boy and His Soul
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