---
name: "Colman Domingo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/colman-domingo"
fi1m_id: "colman-domingo"
imdb_id: "nm0231458"
tmdb_id: 91671
wikidata_id: "Q5147723"
roles: ["Actor","Producer","Director"]
born: "28 November 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 18
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 17
updated: "2026-10-03T03:15:09.491522+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Colman Domingo

## Identity

Colman Domingo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/colman-domingo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** colman-domingo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0231458
- **TMDB ID:** 91671
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5147723
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colman_Domingo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5147723, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91671

Actor and producer. Born 28 November 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 28 November 1969, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Also known as:** Coleman Domingo, Colman Jason Domingo
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 18: 17 acting, 1 directing
- **Frequently works with:** [Dede Gardner](https://film.one/person/dede-gardner.md), [George C. Wolfe](https://film.one/person/george-c-wolfe.md), [Glynn Turman](https://film.one/person/glynn-turman.md), [Jeremy Kleiner](https://film.one/person/jeremy-kleiner.md), [Steven Spielberg](https://film.one/person/steven-spielberg.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 17 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (1), 2010s 71 (5), 2020s 65 (12)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 66 across 17 titles
- **Score spread:** 5 at 80+, 9 at 60–79, 3 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 4 of 13 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 11, Thriller 4, History 3, Music 3, Romance 3, Science Fiction 3
- **Screen time:** 35 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,948m across 14 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colman_Domingo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5147723, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91671

## Coming up

- *The Comebacker* (2027-07-29)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Selma*](https://film.one/film/selma.md) (84), [*Ma Rainey's Black Bottom*](https://film.one/film/ma-raineys-black-bottom.md) (69), [*Rustin*](https://film.one/film/rustin.md) (68), [*Wicked: For Good*](https://film.one/film/wicked-for-good.md) (64), [*The Four Seasons*](https://film.one/tv/the-four-seasons.md) (64)
- **Apple TV:** [*Sing Sing*](https://film.one/film/sing-sing.md) (84), [*The Running Man*](https://film.one/film/the-running-man.md) (60), [*Michael*](https://film.one/film/michael.md) (47)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*If Beale Street Could Talk*](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md) (81)
- **Pluto TV:** [*Passing Strange*](https://film.one/film/passing-strange.md) (80)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Color Purple*](https://film.one/film/the-color-purple-2023.md) (73)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Colman Domingo

> Colman Domingo is a stage actor who never hides the craft. In *Sing Sing* you can see the technique; in *The Running Man* and *The Four Seasons* it makes him the best thing in a middling piece, and it stops him vanishing into a part.

Watch Colman Domingo take a room. In *The Running Man* (2025) his host Bobby T. works a studio crowd like a preacher and a car salesman at once, and appears to believe every word. *Sing Sing* (2024) opens on him in costume, on a stage, speaking Shakespeare to an audience we never see, then cuts to him being locked back into a cell. He is a stage actor who never quite left the stage, and he is best when the man he plays is also putting on a show, because then the craft we can always see in him is the point rather than the problem.

He came to it late and sideways: journalism at Temple, regional theatre in San Francisco, Broadway in *Passing Strange* (2008) and *The Scottsboro Boys* (2010–11). The screen was slow to notice. Small parts followed in *Lincoln* (2012), as Ralph Abernathy in Ava DuVernay's *Selma* (2014) and as the father in Barry Jenkins's *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), good films that did not need him to carry them. Television did the work: eight years as Victor Strand in *Fear the Walking Dead* (2015–2023), then Ali in Sam Levinson's *Euphoria* (2019–2026). The leads came with *Rustin* (2023) for George C. Wolfe and *Sing Sing* for Greg Kwedar.

*Sing Sing* is the one to see. He plays Divine G, who runs a prison theatre group while waiting on a clemency hearing, with real generosity, listening more than he talks, and he has a breakdown scene that is technically superb. We admired it, and we were not quite inside it. Beside Divine Eye Maclin, a former inmate who cannot be caught acting, we could see Domingo deciding where to breathe. He is the film's spine; Maclin is its pulse. The same visible skill is a plain asset in comedy. In *The Four Seasons* (2025) his Danny is the friend whose company we actively wanted to keep, and we laughed at his delivery in a series whose writing mostly settled for familiar complaints.

It goes wrong when a film asks him for size and nothing else. "I'm going to find humanity in the villain," he has said; in *Michael* (2026) he found the volume instead, playing Joseph Jackson as a large, watchful man who believes fear is a teaching method, at a pitch that empties the rest of the house. Antoine Fuqua's film needed a villain and handed him the job. Elsewhere he is simply under-used: Hugo Wakefield in Spielberg's *Disclosure Day* (2026) is given less than the billing suggests, the Chief in Ethan Coen's *Drive-Away Dolls* (2024) exists to send goons after the leads, and the Cowardly Lion in *Wicked: For Good* (2025) is a voice cameo.

He directs as well, including on *The Four Seasons*, and has said he never wanted to be only an actor. Fair enough. But the part that fits him best has not quite been written yet: a man performing for a room, in a film that lets us see the performing and cares why.

## Biography

Colman Domingo is an American actor, playwright and director. Born on 28 November 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he trained at Temple University and began his career in regional theatre before moving to Broadway. His early stage roles include productions of *Well* (2005) and *Passing Strange* (2008). He received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the musical *The Scottsboro Boys* (2011) and wrote the book for *Summer: The Donna Summer Musical* (2018).

Domingo is known for his television roles as Victor Strand in *Fear the Walking Dead* (2015–2023) and Ali in *Euphoria* (2019–2026), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2022. In film he has appeared in *Lincoln* (2012), *The Butler* (2013) and *Sing Sing* (2024), earning consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Actor for *Rustin* (2023) and *Sing Sing*. He is also credited as Joseph Jackson in *Michael* (2026) and voices The Cowardly Lion in *Wicked: For Good* (2025). He has directed episodes of *Fear the Walking Dead* and appears in the series *The Four Seasons* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (18)

### Performed in (17) — the average rests on these

- *Dead Man's Wire* (2026), Fi1m 70, as Fred Temple — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-mans-wire.md)
- *Disclosure Day* (2026), Fi1m 68, as Hugo Wakefield — [page](https://film.one/film/disclosure-day.md)
- *Michael* (2026), Fi1m 47, as Joseph Jackson — [page](https://film.one/film/michael.md)
- *The Running Man* (2025), Fi1m 60, as Bobby T. — [page](https://film.one/film/the-running-man.md)
- *Wicked: For Good* (2025), Fi1m 64, as The Cowardly Lion (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/wicked-for-good.md)
- *Drive-Away Dolls* (2024), Fi1m 60, as The Chief — [page](https://film.one/film/drive-away-dolls.md)
- *Sing Sing* (2024), Fi1m 84, as John 'Divine G' Whitfield — [page](https://film.one/film/sing-sing.md)
- *Rustin* (2023), Fi1m 68, as Bayard Rustin — [page](https://film.one/film/rustin.md)
- *The Color Purple* (2023), Fi1m 73, as Mister — [page](https://film.one/film/the-color-purple-2023.md)
- *Transformers: Rise of the Beasts* (2023), Fi1m 52, as Unicron (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts.md)
- *Ma Rainey's Black Bottom* (2020), Fi1m 69, as Cutler — [page](https://film.one/film/ma-raineys-black-bottom.md)
- *Lucy in the Sky* (2019), Fi1m 44, as Frank Paxton — [page](https://film.one/film/lucy-in-the-sky.md)
- *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), Fi1m 81, as Joseph Rivers — [page](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md)
- *Selma* (2014), Fi1m 84, as Ralph Abernathy — [page](https://film.one/film/selma.md)
- *The Butler* (2013), Fi1m 66, as Freddie Fallows — [page](https://film.one/film/the-butler.md)
- *Lincoln* (2012), Fi1m 82, as Private Harold Green — [page](https://film.one/film/lincoln.md)
- *Passing Strange* (2009), Fi1m 80, as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus — [page](https://film.one/film/passing-strange.md)

### Directed (1)

- *The Four Seasons* (2025), Fi1m 64, as Danny — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-four-seasons.md)

## Complete filmography (81)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Comebacker* (2027), Actor
- *Chapter 51* (2026), as Christopher Demy
- *Disclosure Day* (2026), as Hugo Wakefield — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/disclosure-day.md)
- *Superbloom* (2026), Actor
- *Michael* (2026), as Joseph Jackson — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/michael.md)
- *Dead Man's Wire* (2026), as Fred Temple · Executive Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-mans-wire.md)
- *Wicked: For Good* (2025), as The Cowardly Lion (voice) — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/wicked-for-good.md)
- *The Running Man* (2025), as Bobby T. — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-running-man.md)
- *National Theatre Live: Retrograde* (2025), Producer
- *The Four Seasons* (2025), series, as Danny · Director — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-four-seasons.md)
- *The Electric State* (2025), as Wolfe (voice)
- *Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man* (2025), series, as Norman Osborn (voice)
- *The Madness* (2024), series, as Muncie Daniels
- *Sing Sing* (2024), as John 'Divine G' Whitfield · Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/sing-sing.md)
- *Drive-Away Dolls* (2024), as The Chief — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/drive-away-dolls.md)
- *It's What's Inside* (2024), Executive Producer
- *The Color Purple* (2023), as Mister — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-color-purple-2023.md)
- *Rustin* (2023), as Bayard Rustin — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/rustin.md)
- *Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken* (2023), as Arthur Gillman (voice)
- *Transformers: Rise of the Beasts* (2023), as Unicron (voice) — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts.md)
- *When My Sleeping Dragon Woke* (2022), as Executive Producer
- *New Moon* (2022), Storyteller, Producer, Writer
- *North Star* (2022), as James · Executive Producer
- *Candyman* (2021), as William Burke
- *The God Committee* (2021), as Father Dunbar
- *Zola* (2021), as X
- *Leylak* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Tom Clancy's Without Remorse* (2021), as Pastor West
- *Cinema Toast* (2021), series, as Barrington
- *Barbecue* (2020), as James T
- *Ma Rainey's Black Bottom* (2020), as Cutler — Fi1m 69, [page](https://film.one/film/ma-raineys-black-bottom.md)
- *Lucy in the Sky* (2019), as Frank Paxton — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/lucy-in-the-sky.md)
- *A Black Lady Sketch Show* (2019), series, as Colman Domingo
- *Euphoria* (2019), series, as Ali — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/euphoria.md)
- *The Twilight Zone* (2019), series, as Carl Weaber
- *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), as Joseph Rivers — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md)
- *Nothingman* (2018), as Otis Tremmel
- *Assassination Nation* (2018), as Principal Turrell
- *First Match* (2018), as Coach Castile
- *Culling Hens* (2016), as Trader
- *Timeless* (2016), series, as Bass Reeves
- *The Birth of a Nation* (2016), as Hark
- *Horace and Pete* (2016), series, as Dr. Evers
- *Lucifer* (2016), series, as Father Frank Lawrence
- *Time Out of Mind* (2015), as Mr. Oyello
- *Fear the Walking Dead* (2015), series, as Victor Strand · Director, Producer
- *Beautiful Something* (2015), as Drew
- *Selma* (2014), as Ralph Abernathy — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/selma.md)
- *BoJack Horseman* (2014), series, as Eddie (voice) — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/bojack-horseman.md)
- *A Long Walk* (2014), as Older Paul
- *Hairbrained* (2013), as Finals Moderator
- *Newlyweeds* (2013), as Chico
- *All Is Bright* (2013), as Nzomo
- *The Butler* (2013), as Freddie Fallows — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-butler.md)
- *42* (2013), as Lawson Bowman (uncredited)
- *400 Boys* (2013), as Talon
- *Lincoln* (2012), as Private Harold Green — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/lincoln.md)
- *Red Hook Summer* (2012), as Blessing Rowe
- *Passing Strange* (2009), as Mr.Franklin / Joop / Mr. Venus — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/passing-strange.md)
- *Miracle at St. Anna* (2008), as West Indian Postal Customer
- *The Big Gay Sketch Show* (2007), series, Actor
- *Freedomland* (2006), as Male Patient
- *Law & Order: Trial by Jury* (2005), series, as Gus Johnson
- *American Dad!* (2005), series, as Stiles (voice)
- *Kung Phooey!* (2003), as Roy Lee
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Andre Lanier, Sergeant Ev Sides
- *Desi's Looking for a New Girl* (2000), as Mother
- *True Crime* (1999), as Wally Cartwright
- *King of the Bingo Game* (1999), as Sonny
- *Around the Fire* (1998), as Trace
- *Nash Bridges* (1996), series, as Trumpet Player, Desmond Kenner, Hassam
- *Fearless* (1993), as Hospital patient with nail in hand (uncredited)
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Donnie, Defense Attorney Ronald Gumer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Untitled The Princess and the Frog Live Action Spin-Off*, Writer
- *Scandalous!*, Director
- *Unforgettable*, as Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole · Director, Writer
- *An Innocent Girl*, Actor
- *True-ish*, Actor
- *Strange Arrivals*, as Barney Hill
- *The Servant*, as Barrett
- *A Boy and His Soul*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Colman Domingo](https://film.one/media/person/6629/gallery-d0cd055b6f32.jpg) Colman Domingo — Image via TMDB
- ![Colman Domingo](https://film.one/media/person/6629/gallery-f16e9f069cb6.jpg) Colman Domingo — Image via TMDB
- ![Colman Domingo](https://film.one/media/person/6629/gallery-e86f08313afe.jpg) Colman Domingo — Image via TMDB
- ![Colman Domingo](https://film.one/media/person/6629/gallery-510373720afc.jpg) Colman Domingo — Image via TMDB
- ![Colman Domingo](https://film.one/media/person/6629/gallery-67e7527c6a3c.jpg) Colman Domingo — Image via TMDB
- ![Colman Domingo](https://film.one/media/person/6629/gallery-66159e408d5a.jpg) Colman Domingo — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2025: Best Actor (nominated), for *Sing Sing*
- 2024: Best Actor (nominated), for *Rustin*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Time 100 2024: Time 100 (won)
- Out100 2023: Out100 (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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