COVER LOOK
Colman Domingo wears a Balmain jacket, pants, and shirt. Chanel High Jewelry brooch. Magnanni shoes. Portraits by Iké Udé. Styled by Max Ortega. Vogue, May 2025.
Out there is a video, captured on someone’s phone, in which Colman Domingo, star of last year’s affecting prison drama Sing Sing, can be seen onstage at the Oscars, doing a jaunty little dance. As he bops along to Maze’s “Before I Let Go,” his lank frame a blur of scarlet and black Valentino, he shouts out members of the audience—“C’mon, Cynthia! C’mon, Penélope!”—not that they need much persuading: The entire front row, from Kylie Jenner to Demi Moore, is on their feet.
Some 30 years into his professional acting career, the 55-year-old Domingo is surely one of the most celebrated men in Hollywood right now. Not celebrated as in winningest, per se—though he’s won an Emmy and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two BAFTAs, four SAG Awards, two Tonys (including one as a producer), and an Olivier—but in the “wow, people love this guy” way. Bradley Cooper has called him “a luminous human being.” George C. Wolfe has praised his “joyful, playful, available spirit.” Per Oprah Winfrey, Domingo is “the real deal.”
For what it’s worth, this writer can also vouch for Domingo as genuinely lovely company. Over lunch at New York’s Café Chelsea (an endive salad and coffee for me; endive salad, a cheeseburger, and two lemonades—“Why not!”—for him), he regales me with stories from his childhood in Philadelphia: trailing his older siblings to see Carrie and the latest Bruce Lee movie (his older brother, Rick, was a big Lee fan); helping his mother, Edith, decide which wig to wear. (One favorite improbably combined an Afro, cornrows, and straight bangs.)
Glimpses of his sun-dappled life out in Malibu with his husband and producing partner, Raúl, also surface; Domingo informs me that Raúl, who only recently learned how to drive a car, is now flying planes. (This is a couple that can’t resist a whim; their glancing first encounter outside a Berkeley Walgreens in 2005 led to a Craigslist “missed connections” posting and then their first date.) Domingo is tall and nicely groomed but unfussy, dressed in an oversized white button-down, a baseball cap, and a smattering of gold jewelry. He laughs loudly and often.
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