Here’s a guide to Fear The Walking Dead actor Colman Domingo’s movies and TV shows. Domingo started acting in the mid-1990s with roles in films including Timepiece and the Clint Eastwood-directed mystery True Crime. Soon after Domingo appeared several times on police procedural series Nash Bridges, playing four different characters over the course of three seasons. Throughout the noughties, Domingo also had multiple different roles in the Law & Order franchise and had parts in movies like comedy Kung Phooey!, crime drama Freedomland and Spike Lee’s war epic Miracle At St. Anna.
Colman Domingo exercised his comedy chops as a cast member on LGBT-focused sketch series The Big Gay Sketch Show between 2008 and 2010. He spent the early 2010s expanding his movie work playing Private Harold Green in Lincoln, Freddie Fallows in Lee Daniels’ The Butler and civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy in historical drama Selma. He also had roles in films like Newlyweeds and Beautiful Something.
In 2015 Colman Domingo landed his most high-profile TV role to date, playing the mysterious Victor Strand on AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead. Domingo initially joined the cast as a recurring character until he was promoted to a series regular after the first season aired. While playing Strand on Fear The Walking Dead, Domingo also appeared on lots of other TV shows. He had a recurring role as Dr. Russel Daniels on period medical drama The Knick alongside one-off roles on shows such as Lucifer. He also had voice roles on BoJack Horseman and recently joined the cast of teen drama Euphoria in a recurring role as recovering addict Ali.
Since joining Fear The Walking Dead, Colman Domingo has also added many more movie roles to his resume. He played Hark in Nate Parker’s directorial debut The Birth Of A Nation and Principal Turrell in black comedy Assassination Nation alongside roles as Coach Castile in indie sports drama First Match and as Joseph Rivers in If Beale Street Could Talk. In the past couple of years, Domingo has also appeared in Zola and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Beyond his movies and TV work, he’s a prolific stage actor and playwright too. He’s had roles in productions of Shakespeare plays including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming Of The Shrew and starred as Billy Flynn in a Broadway production of Chicago. He also penned the autobiographical one-man play A Boy And His Soul and co-wrote Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, alongside giving an Olivier Award-nominated turn as Mr. Bones in a West End production of musical The Scottsboro Boys.
As for the future, Colman Domingo will reprise his role as Strand when the latter half of Fear The Walking Dead season 6 airs in 2021. He also has roles in three upcoming films – drama The God Committee, action-thriller Without Remorse and horror reboot Candyman.
