Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo is an American actor, playwright and director. After working for many years in theatre, he rose to prominence in television and film in the 2010s; He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor twice in a row for the films "Rustin" and "Sing Sing".

theater years

He was born on November 28, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied journalism at Temple University, then moved to San Francisco and began performing in area theaters. He moved to New York in the mid-2000s. He won an Obie Award for his work in the Broadway musical "Passing Strange" in 2008; He was nominated for a Tony Award for 2010's "The Scottsboro Boys." He was also prolific as a writer: he received a Lucille Lortel Award for his one-man work "A Boy and His Soul," based on his own life, and wrote plays such as "Dot" and "Wild with Happy."

Screen career

In the cinema, he starred in films such as "Lincoln" (2012), "Selma" (2014), "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (2020) and "Zola" (2021). He appeared on television as Victor Strand in the TV series "Fear the Walking Dead" from 2015 to 2023. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Guest Actor in 2022 for his role as Ali, who tries to recover from addiction, in HBO's "Euphoria".

Oscar nominations came in 2023 for "Rustin", in which he played civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, and in 2024 for "Sing Sing", about a prison theater program. TIME magazine named him among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024. In recent years, he starred in the Netflix series "The Four Seasons" (2025) and played Joe Jackson in the movie "Michael" (2026), which is about the life of Michael Jackson.

Domingo is one of the well-known names of contemporary American theater and cinema as an artist who moves between stage and screen and does not separate writing from acting.