Colman Domingo

Actor / Producer / Director

Birthdate – November 28, 1969 (55 Years Old)

Birthplace – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

In 2023, Mr. Domingo was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play as a producer for the Pulitzer Prize winning play Fat Ham. Colman won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor Drama for his role as Ali in the HBO series Euphoria. Domingo has been honored with the inaugural Denver Film CinemaQ-LaBahn Ikon Film Award, the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award, the Creative Coalition Television Humanitarian Award and the Atlanta’s Out On Film Icon Award. Colman Domingo stars in the Netflix, Higher Ground film Rustin as Bayard Rustin slated for the fall of 2023. He also stars as Mister in the Warner Brothers, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg produced The Color Purple musical motion picture. A two time Film Independent Spirit, Gotham, SAG, Critics Choice and NAACP award nominee, he won a Hollywood Critics Association Award for Best Actor in a Limited Series/Anthology and an Imagen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for his work in Euphoria. Domingo is a Tony®, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Drama Desk, Drama League and NAACP Theatre Award nominated, OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award winning actor, playwright, director and producer. Colman received his Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Ursinus College. He is on the faculty of University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts as a Professor of acting, after having served as a Juilliard School Creative Associate and a faculty member of the Yale School of Drama. Colman has starred in some of the most profound films in recent years such as Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, Steven Spielbergs’ Lincoln, Lee Daniel’s The Butler, Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Nia DaCosta’s Candyman and Janicza Bravo’s Zola.

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Michael

Joe Jackson (2025)

Drive-Away Dolls

The Chief (2024)

The Color Purple

Mister (2023)

Sing Sing

(2024)

The God Committee

Father Dunbar (2021)

Candyman

William Burke (2021)

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Cutler (2020)

Zola

X (2021)

Lucy in the Sky

Frank Paxton (2019)

Assassination Nation

Principal Turrell (2018)

If Beale Street Could Talk

Joseph Rivers (2018)

The Birth of a Nation

Hark (2016)

Selma

Ralph Abernathy (2014)

The Butler

Freddie Fallows (2013)