Colman Domingo

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1969-11-28 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Colman Domingo

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 reprise...

Acting

2009

Passing Strange

as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus

2023

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

as Arthur Gillman (voice)

2023

Rustin

as Bayard Rustin

2024

Drive-Away Dolls

as The Chief

2023

2023

2012

Lincoln

as Private Harold Green

2024

Sing Sing

as John 'Divine G' Whitfield

2013

Newlyweeds

as Chico

2022

New Moon

as Storyteller

2014

Selma

as Ralph Abernathy

2014

A Long Walk

as Older Paul

2013

42

as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)

-

Michael

as Joe Jackson

-

Untitled Nat King Cole Biopic

as Nathaniel Adams Coles/Nat King Cole

2014

Time Out of Mind

as Mr. Oyello

2012

Red Hook Summer

as Blessing Rowe

2018

Assassination Nation

as Principal Turrell

2018

2013

1999

True Crime

as Wally Cartwright

2018

First Match

as Coach Castile

2019

Lucy in the Sky

as Frank Paxton

-

Nothingman

as Otis Tremmel

2021

Zola

as X

2021

Candyman

as William Burke

2013

Hairbrained

as Finals Moderator

2003

Kung Phooey!

as Roy Lee

2008

Miracle at St. Anna

as West Indian Postal Customer

2013

The Butler

as Freddie Fallows

2006

Freedomland

as Male Patient

1998

2021

The God Committee

as Father Dunbar

2020

Barbecue

as James T

2025

The Running Man

as Bobby Thompson

2025

The Electric State

as Wolfe (voice)

2013

400 Boys

as Talon

-

Strange Arrivals

as Barney Hill

Production

2021

Leylak

as Executive Producer

2024

Sing Sing

as Executive Producer

2022

New Moon

as Producer

2022

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke

as Executive Producer

2024

It's What's Inside

as Executive Producer

2022

New Moon

as Writer

2022

North Star

as Executive Producer

-

Scandalous!

as Director

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