“I’ve always been a person who’s felt Hollywood-alt,” says Colman Domingo, the award-winning actor, writer, director, producer, and now professor, known for, well, everything. The self-proclaimed “joyful disruptor” has starred in some of the most profound and thought-provoking projects of recent years. From an addict turned insightful mentor in Euphoria to a jazz musician dancing between the exploitation of Black artists and his role as a mediator in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Colman’s roster is impressively robust, to say the least. Even this summer, prepare to see him in three different films (Zola on June 30, The God Committee on July 2, and Candyman on August 27). But the acting stops there. When it comes to matters of the home, his alter egos stay at the door.
After making a not-so-expected move from New York to Los Angeles—being a Tony-nominated Broadway star, the West Coast wasn’t always in the cards—the seasoned multi-hyphenate has added a new title to his portfolio: decorator.
Working in tandem with his husband, Raúl Domingo (who, by the way, he met in the most star-crossed meet-cute moment at a Walgreens in 2005), Colman set out to find a place the two could call home. “We were house hunting for six months,” he says of the quest to find the perfect space. This particular “rat race,” as he calls it, culminated with Raúl stumbling upon a listing posted just two hours prior in a neighborhood they’d never heard of. In other words, it was already perfect. “No one ever suspects Hollywood is coming through this door,” Colman jokes of his star-studded dinner parties tucked away in the private world he’s created for himself on an undistinguished street in Southern Los Angeles.