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

Lucifer Not in library

Lucifer

2016

Euphoria Not in library

Euphoria

2019

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Not in library

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

2023

Fear the Walking Dead Not in library

Fear the Walking Dead

2015

Lincoln Not in library

Lincoln

2012

The Butler Not in library

The Butler

2013

BoJack Horseman Not in library

BoJack Horseman

2014

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse Not in library

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse

2021

American Dad! Not in library

American Dad!

2005

Selma Not in library

Selma

2014

Acting

2026 Michael as Joe Jackson In Library
2026 Disclosure Day as Hugo Wakefield In Library
2026 Dead Man's Wire as Fred Temple
2025 Chapter 51
2025 The Running Man as Bobby T.
2025 The Electric State as Wolfe (voice)
2025 Wicked: For Good as The Cowardly Lion (voice)
2025 The Four Seasons as Danny (16 episodes)
2025 Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man as Norman Osborn (voice) (10 episodes)
2024 Drive-Away Dolls as The Chief
2024 Sing Sing as John 'Divine G' Whitfield
2024 The Madness as Muncie Daniels (8 episodes)
2023 Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken as Arthur Gillman (voice)
2023 Rustin as Bayard Rustin
2023 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Unicron (voice)
2023 The Color Purple as Mister
2023 Oprah & The Color Purple Journey as Self
2023 You Are Here as Self (4 episodes)
2023 Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self (1 episode)
2022 Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self
2022 North Star
2022 New Moon as Storyteller
2022 When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
2022 The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self (3 episodes)
2021 Zola as X
2021 Candyman as William Burke
2021 Tom Clancy's Without Remorse as Pastor West
2021 The God Committee as Father Dunbar
2021 Cinema Toast as Barrington (10 episodes)
2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Cutler
2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen as Self
2020 Barbecue as James T
2020 Bottomless Brunch at Colman's as Self - Host (22 episodes)
2019 Lucy in the Sky as Frank Paxton
2019 Tamron Hall as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2019 A Black Lady Sketch Show as Colman Domingo (1 episode)
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self - Guest (4 episodes)
2019 The X Change Rate as Self - Special Guest (1 episode)
2019 The Twilight Zone as Carl Weaber (1 episode)
2019 Euphoria as Ali (7 episodes)
2018 Assassination Nation as Principal Turrell
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk as Joseph Rivers
2018 First Match as Coach Castile
2018 Nothingman as Otis Tremmel
2016 The Birth of a Nation as Hark
2016 Culling Hens as Trader
2016 Horace and Pete as Dr. Evers (10 episodes)
2016 Lucifer as Father Frank Lawrence (1 episode)
2016 Timeless as Bass Reeves (1 episode)
2015 Time Out of Mind as Mr. Oyello
2015 Beautiful Something as Drew
2015 Fear the Walking Dead as Victor Strand (113 episodes)
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
2015 Hot Ones as Self (1 episode)
2014 Selma as Ralph Abernathy
2014 A Long Walk as Older Paul
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self (1 episode)
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self (2 episodes)
2014 BoJack Horseman as Eddie (voice) (1 episode)
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (1 episode)
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2013 Newlyweeds as Chico
2013 42 as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
2013 All Is Bright as Nzomo
2013 Hairbrained as Finals Moderator
2013 The Butler as Freddie Fallows
2013 400 Boys as Talon
2012 Lincoln as Private Harold Green
2012 Red Hook Summer as Blessing Rowe
2012 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars as Self - Guest Judge (1 episode)
2012 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED as Self - Guest Judge (1 episode)
2011 Halloween Wars as Self - Guest Judge (1 episode)
2009 Passing Strange as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2008 Miracle at St. Anna as West Indian Postal Customer
2007 The Big Gay Sketch Show
2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self (3 episodes)
2006 Freedomland as Male Patient
2005 Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Gus Johnson (1 episode)
2005 American Dad! as Stiles (voice) (1 episode)
2003 Kung Phooey! as Roy Lee
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest (3 episodes)
2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Andre Lanier (1 episode)
2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Sergeant Ev Sides (1 episode)
2000 Desi's Looking for a New Girl as Mother
1999 True Crime as Wally Cartwright
1999 King of the Bingo Game as Sonny
1998 Around the Fire as Trace
1996 The Daily Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1996 Nash Bridges as Trumpet Player (1 episode)
1996 Nash Bridges as Desmond Kenner (1 episode)
1996 Nash Bridges as Hassam (1 episode)
1990 Law & Order as Donnie (1 episode)
1990 Law & Order as Defense Attorney Ronald Gumer (1 episode)
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1975 Saturday Night Live as Self - Host (1 episode)
1956 Tony Awards as Self - Nominee (1 episode)
1953 The Oscars as Self (2 episodes)
1949 The Emmy Awards as Self (1 episode)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee / Presenter (1 episode)
1944 Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter (2 episodes)
Unforgettable as Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole
A Boy and His Soul
True-ish
Strange Arrivals as Barney Hill
An Innocent Girl
The Comebacker

Directing

2025 The Four Seasons Director
2015 Fear the Walking Dead Director
Unforgettable Director
Scandalous! Director

Writing

2022 New Moon Writer
Unforgettable Writer
A Boy and His Soul Writer

Production

2026 Dead Man's Wire Executive Producer
2025 National Theatre Live: Retrograde Producer
2024 Sing Sing Executive Producer
2024 It's What's Inside Executive Producer
2022 New Moon Producer
2022 When My Sleeping Dragon Woke Executive Producer
2022 North Star Executive Producer
2021 Leylak Executive Producer
2020 Bottomless Brunch at Colman's Executive Producer
2015 Fear the Walking Dead Producer