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.

Selected Filmography

• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen(2009)TV Series · 2 epsas Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon(2014)TV Series · 2 epsas Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert(2015)TV Series · 2 epsas Self - Guest
• American Dad!(2005)TV Series · 1 epas Stiles (voice)
• Law & Order(1990)TV Series · 1 epas Defense Attorney Ronald Gumer
• The Kelly Clarkson Show(2019)TV Series · 1 epas Self
• The Daily Show(1996)TV Series · 1 epas Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers(2014)TV Series · 3 epsas Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live(1975)TV Series · 1 epas Self - Host
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent(2001)TV Series · 1 epas Sergeant Ev Sides
• The Graham Norton Show(2007)TV Series · 3 epsas Self
• Disclosure Day(2026)as Hugo Wakefield
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!(2003)TV Series · 4 epsas Self - Guest Host
• The Jennifer Hudson Show(2022)TV Series · 1 epas Self - Guest
• Lucifer(2016)TV Series · 1 epas Father Frank Lawrence
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark(1988)TV Series · 2 epsas Self - Guest
• Fear the Walking Dead(2015)TV Series · 113 epsas Victor Strand
• Euphoria(2019)TV Series · 10 epsas Ali
• BoJack Horseman(2014)TV Series · 1 epas Eddie (voice)
• Michael(2026)as Joseph Jackson