Colman Domingo
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.6228 |
| Birthday | 1969-11-28 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | Coleman Domingo, Colman Jason Domingo, |
2009
Passing Strange
4.9/11
A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical...
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Passing Strange
2023
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
7.164/1100
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to prote...
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
2023
Rustin
6.55/210
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington...
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Rustin
2024
Drive-Away Dolls
5.516/564
Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her demure friend Marian desperately needs to loosen up. In sea...
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Drive-Away Dolls
2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
7.171/5241
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023
The Color Purple
7.007/352
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately find...
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The Color Purple
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
5.5/4
Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in the tumultuous history of 19th century America as...
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Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2012
Lincoln
6.848/4042
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln p...
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Lincoln
2024
Sing Sing
7.4/351
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this st...
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Sing Sing
2013
Newlyweeds
4.2/11
A match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry when Lyle can't decide which matters most, Nina or Mary Jane.
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Newlyweeds
2022
North Star
4.5/6
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North Star
2022
New Moon
0/0
An imaginative surrealist journey of young Jay Jay and his mother Edie. Their inner city dreams are illuminated by the New Moon accompanied by magic o...
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New Moon
2014
Selma
7.379/2316
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme...
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Selma
2022
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
0/0
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When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
2014
A Long Walk
7.5/2
A father humiliates his son by parading him through the neighborhood in women's clothing in front of all the other kids on a summer day. The impact of...
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A Long Walk
2013
42
7.194/1948
In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball facing unabashed racism from the public, the press and other pla...
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42
2026
Michael
7.5/488
The story of Michael Jackson, one of the most influential artists the world has ever known, and his life beyond the music. His journey from the discov...
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Michael
Unforgettable
0/0
The movie will chart Cole’s journey as musician and quiet revolutionary, navigating racial injustice, Hollywood sabotage and self doubt to ensure his...
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Unforgettable
2023
Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
3.3/3
A behind-the-scenes look into the making of the new feature film “The Color Purple,” and the impact the story has had on our culture. Oprah Winfrey ta...
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Oprah & The Color Purple Journey
2016
The Birth of a Nation
6.572/571
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation...
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The Birth of a Nation
2015
Time Out of Mind
5.6/143
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Time Out of Mind
2015
Beautiful Something
5.2/24
Four diverse gay men navigate art, sex and love in one sublime night.
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Beautiful Something
2012
Red Hook Summer
5.4/25
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well...
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Red Hook Summer
2018
Assassination Nation
6.247/890
After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American town, the townspeople spiral into madness, with four...
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Assassination Nation
2018
If Beale Street Could Talk
6.896/1216
After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
2013
All Is Bright
5.391/133
Two ne’er-do-wells from Quebec travel to New York City with a scheme to get rich quick selling Christmas trees.
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All Is Bright
1999
True Crime
6.53/856
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row...
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True Crime
2018
First Match
6.4/147
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estr...
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First Match
2019
Lucy in the Sky
4.97/233
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that...
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Lucy in the Sky
2018
Nothingman
0/0
A homeless alcoholic living on Skid Row dons himself a Private Investigator to solve cases for others living on the street.
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Nothingman
2021
Zola
6.2/277
A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek...
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Zola
2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
6.6/1253
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2021
Candyman
6.01/1747
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.
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Candyman
2013
Hairbrained
5.4/70
A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.
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Hairbrained
2021
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
6.9/2687
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
1999
King of the Bingo Game
9/1
Harlem, 1943. Sonny is a struggling African American who frequents the bingo parlor in a desperate attempt to provide for his family in post-Depressio...
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King of the Bingo Game
2003
Kung Phooey!
5.545/11
The plot follows Art Chew's (a pun of the sound one makes when sneezing) quest to retrieve the ancient peach. The movie starts with Art Chew traveling...
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Kung Phooey!
2008
Miracle at St. Anna
6.12/391
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tusca...
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Miracle at St. Anna
1998
Around the Fire
3.882/17
Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved a...
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Around the Fire
2000
Desi's Looking for a New Girl
2.9/5
After her live-in lover leaves her for another woman, Desi, a young artist, gets incredibly depressed. Her well-meaning friends try to set her up with...
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Desi's Looking for a New Girl
2006
Freedomland
5.232/364
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
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Freedomland
2013
The Butler
7.328/3017
Cecil Gaines was a sharecropper's son who grew up in the 1920s as a domestic servant for the white family who casually destroyed his. Eventually strik...
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The Butler
2021
The God Committee
6.584/89
Medicine, money and morality clash when a hospital's Heart Transplant Selection Committee has only minutes to decide which of three patients on the tr...
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The God Committee
2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen
6.188/16
Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, George C. Wolfe and more share the heart, soul and history that brought August Wilson's timeless play to the screen.
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2020
Barbecue
0/0
The O’Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and rousing straight talk while they await their youngest sister’s arrival. Wh...
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Barbecue
A Boy and His Soul
0/0
The award-winning story of a boy's coming of age amidst the soul music of '70's and '80's Philadelphia.
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A Boy and His Soul
2026
Disclosure Day
0/0
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?
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Disclosure Day
2025
Chapter 51
0/0
Multiple actresses playing the same role have died during production of the film Dissident. In his search for The Hollywood Killer, an FBI agent sifts...
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Chapter 51
2025
The Running Man
6.752/1445
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly c...
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The Running Man
2026
Dead Man's Wire
6.423/117
In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 millio...
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Dead Man's Wire
2025
The Electric State
6.487/1627
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
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The Electric State
2013
400 Boys
0/0
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True-ish
0/0
Follows Janet Paine, a well-intentioned but deeply insecure Manhattan PR executive with a specialty for smear campaigns.
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Strange Arrivals
0/0
Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple, in 1961, became the first reported case of an alien abduction, as they journeyed back from their honeymo...
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Strange Arrivals
2016
Culling Hens
2/1
A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Unable to comprehend what she has seen, the woman res...
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Culling Hens
2025
Wicked: For Good
6.629/957
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the f...
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An Innocent Girl
0/0
When a young and ambitious woman is seduced by a high powered D.C. couple, she’s drawn into a dangerous world of sex, power and murder.
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