Colman Domingo
Acting
Born: Nov 28, 1969
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Credits: 30 titles
Biography
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael | Joseph Jackson | 2026 | 7.597 |
| Drive-Away Dolls | The Chief | 2024 | 5.5 |
| Sing Sing | John 'Divine G' Whitfield | 2024 | 7.4 |
| Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken | Arthur Gillman (voice) | 2023 | 7.164 |
| Rustin | Bayard Rustin | 2023 | 6.55 |
| Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Unicron (voice) | 2023 | 7.2 |
| The Color Purple | Mister | 2023 | 7.007 |
| Oprah & The Color Purple Journey | Self | 2023 | 3.3 |
| Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | Self | 2022 | 5.5 |
| North Star | 2022 | 4.2 | |
| New Moon | Storyteller | 2022 | — |
| When My Sleeping Dragon Woke | 2022 | — | |
| Lucy in the Sky | Frank Paxton | 2019 | 4.97 |
| Assassination Nation | Principal Turrell | 2018 | 6.247 |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | Joseph Rivers | 2018 | 6.895 |
| First Match | Coach Castile | 2018 | 6.4 |
| Nothingman | Otis Tremmel | 2018 | — |
| The Birth of a Nation | Hark | 2016 | 6.573 |
| Time Out of Mind | Mr. Oyello | 2015 | 5.6 |
| Beautiful Something | Drew | 2015 | 5.2 |
| Selma | Ralph Abernathy | 2014 | 7.4 |
| A Long Walk | Older Paul | 2014 | 7.5 |
| Newlyweeds | Chico | 2013 | 4.2 |
| 42 | Lawson Bowman (uncredited) | 2013 | 7.193 |
| All Is Bright | Nzomo | 2013 | 5.391 |
| Lincoln | Private Harold Green | 2012 | 6.848 |
| Red Hook Summer | Blessing Rowe | 2012 | 5.4 |
| Passing Strange | Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. … | 2009 | 4.9 |
| True Crime | Wally Cartwright | 1999 | 6.529 |
| Unforgettable | Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat … | — | |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1969 |
| From | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |