Colman Domingo loves a challenge

This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Moseley. My guest today, Coleman Domingo, is nominated for two Emmy Awards this year. For two very different performances. In the Netflix comedy The Four Seasons, he plays Danny, one half of a long married couple who vacation each year with their oldest friends. Danny is funny, vain, impeccably dressed, and now in his fifties, Confronting a question he thought he'd settle long ago.

Whether he wants to become a father. And in the final season of HBO's Euphoria, Domingo returns is Ali. A man in long term recovery who has spent the series trying to help Rue, played by Zendaya, stay alive. Domingo won an Emmy for that role in twenty twenty two, and this year he's nominated again for his performance in the series finale. It's the latest chapter and a remarkable stretch for Domingo, whose rise in Hollywood came after decades in the theater.

He started in regional productions in San Francisco, then moved to New York, where he performed on Broadway. won an OB, was nominated for a Tony and an Olivier. and wrote and directed his own plays. In his forties, Hollywood caught up with him, and since then he's had a steady run of roles, an Emmy, and back to back Oscar nominations for the film Rustin and Sing Sing. Just this year, he played Joe Jackson in the biopic Michael, and had a role in Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, and hosted Saturday Live.

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