Colman Domingo

Colman Domingo is an American actor, playwright, and director who has been openly gay throughout his career — one of a small number of openly gay Black men to achieve leading-man status in Hollywood. He built his career first in theater, earning a Tony Award nomination for the musical The Scottsboro Boys (2011). On screen he is known as Victor Strand on Fear the Walking Dead (2015) and for playing Ali, a recovering addict and mentor, on Euphoria (2019), which won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2022, alongside roles in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) and The Color Purple (2023). His queer artistry found its fullest expression in Rustin (2023), in which he played Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights leader whose sexuality was weaponized to sideline him from the movement he helped build; the performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and a second nomination followed for Sing Sing (2024), which he also produced. Domingo met his husband, Raúl Domingo, through a Craigslist "missed connections" post in 2005, and they married in 2014; he has often described their marriage as a source of profound joy and creative sustenance.