Colman Domingo

Profile Overview

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 two Academy Awards and two Tony Awards. Time magazine named him among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.
Domingo started his career in regional theater productions before transitioning to Broadway acting in Well (2005), Passing Strange (2008), and Chicago (2010–2011). For his role in the original Broadway and West End productions of The Scottsboro Boys, he earned nominations for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2011 and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical in 2014. He also wrote the book for Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (2018) and co-produced Fat Ham (2023), a modern-day adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play.
On television he portrayed Victor Strand in the AMC series Fear the Walking Dead (2015–2023) and played the recovering drug addict Ali Muhammad on the HBO series Euphoria (2019–2026), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2022. He also earned two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as an interior decorator in the Netflix series The Four Seasons (2025).
In film, Domingo received consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayals of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in the biopic Rustin (2023) and a prison inmate in the drama Sing Sing (2024). His other film credits include Lincoln (2012), The Butler (2013), Selma (2014), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Zola (2021), The Color Purple (2023), and Michael (2026).