Colman Domingo
‘The Color Purple’ Review: Fantasia Barrino Is the Molten Heart of Spirited Musical Remake
Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks and Colman Domingo also star in Blitz Bazawule’s retelling of the beloved Alice Walker novel, adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway show.
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‘Rustin’ Screenwriter on Bayard Rustin’s Legacy: “His Queerness Was Part of His Strategic Gift”
Bayard Rustin is one of the most important figures in modern American history whom many people knew nothing about — until now. Netflix’s Rustin, and its towering central performance from Emmy-winning actor Colman Domingo, serves to add his story back into the history books, particularly Rustin’s mentorship of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. […]
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Palm Springs Film Festival to Open With ‘Wicked Little Letters,’ Starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley
Palm Springs International Film Festival programmers have set this year’s lineup. The desert festival, which runs Jan. 4 to 15, will open with the U.S. premiere of Thea Sharrock’s Wicked Little Letters on Jan. 5. Based on a 1920s English scandal, the film follows neighbors Edith Swan and Rose Gooding in the seaside town of […]
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Colman Domingo to Receive Actor Spotlight Award at Palm Springs International Film Fest (Exclusive)
Rustin star Colman Domingo will be honored with the Spotlight Award, Actor at the Palm Springs International Film Fest, it was announced on Monday. The film awards will take place Jan. 4, with the festival running through Jan. 15. “In Rustin, Colman Domingo demonstrates his impressive talents bringing to life civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, […]
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Colman Domingo Addresses ‘Euphoria’ Set Turmoil Rumors: “A Lot of Young Actors May Not Be Up for the Task”
Colman Domingo recently opened up about how the rumors that Euphoria is a “toxic production” aren’t true. The Daily Beast in 2022 published an exposé about the set of the hit HBO show, in which a number of anonymous sources made claims about 18-hour days and how the production failed to provide meals or allow […]
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Former President Obama Celebrates the End of Hollywood’s Historic Strikes During Surprise Appearance at ‘Rustin’ Screening
“It’s great to see even more of you since the strikes are over,” former president Barack Obama told a full house during his and former first lady Michelle Obama’s surprise appearance at a special screening of their Netflix biopic Rustin. Held in the Oprah Winfrey Theater at the National Museum of African American History and […]
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Colman Domingo to Voice Batman Opposite Hasan Minhaj’s Riddler in Spotify Series
Colman Domingo is entering the Batcave. The actor, who is in the Oscars race thanks to his work in civil rights drama Rustin, will voice Batman in the Spotify limited series The Riddler: Secrets In The Dark. Comedian Hasan Minhaj stars in Secrets in the Dark, which comes after Minhaj voiced the Batman villain in […]
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A24 Lands Colman Domingo Drama ‘Sing Sing’
A24 has landed the U.S. rights to Sing Sing, the Colman Domingo-fronted drama that premiered at Toronto Film Festival about a performing arts prison program. Greg Kwedar directs the feature that focuses on the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program run out of the eponymous prison that sees the incarcerated producing and acting in […]
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‘Sing Sing’ Review: Colman Domingo Shines in a Subtle Portrait of a Prison Arts Program
The actor flexes his range in Greg Kwedar's feature about incarcerated men trying to stage a theater production inside their maximum security correctional facility.
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Toronto: How the Formerly Incarcerated Cast of ‘Sing Sing’ Found Shooting the Prison Drama “Cathartic”
“Our industry has ingrained such an idea of what to expect from a prison story,” says filmmaker Greg Kwedar, who is hoping to change that narrative with the help of those whose stories had been misrepresented. Kwedar’s Toronto-bound feature Sing Sing centers on the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program run out of the eponymous […]
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Telluride Awards Analysis: Colman Domingo Crashes the Best Actor Oscar Race With a Star Turn in ‘Rustin’
Colman Domingo has more than earned the awards season he’s about to have. This great American actor, who is perhaps best known for his Emmy-winning turn on HBO’s Euphoria, has been doing standout work on stage and screen for decades, but not until George C. Wolfe’s Rustin — which had its world premiere at the […]
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‘Rustin’ Review: Colman Domingo Brings an Underappreciated Civil Rights Hero to Passionate Life in George C. Wolfe’s Rousing Feature
In his first big-screen lead role, the actor portrays the chief architect of the historic 1963 March on Washington, a gay man who was well ahead of his time in being out and proud.
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