Billy Porter
Acting
Born 1969-09-21
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
106 credits
Primetime Emmy Awards 1
Grammy Awards 1
Tony Awards 2
Isabelle Stevenson Award 1
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical 1
Awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award
Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won
- 2019 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Won Pose, POSE
Grammy Awards 1 won
- 2014 Best Musical Theater Album Won Kinky Boots
Tony Awards 2 won
- 2022 Best Musical Won A Strange Loop
- 2013 Best Actor in a Musical Won Kinky Boots
Isabelle Stevenson Award 1 won
- 2024 Isabelle Stevenson Award Won
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical 1 won
- 2013 Outstanding Actor in a Musical Won Kinky Boots
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William Ellis Porter II (born September 21, 1969) is an American actor and singer. Porter gained notice performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer and actor. For his role as Lola in Kinky Boots, Porter won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He credits the part for "cracking open" his feminine side to confront toxic masculinity. Porter also won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the musical's accompanying album.
Porter starred in all three seasons of the television series Pose, for which he was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, becoming the first gay black man to be nominated and win in any lead acting category at the Primetime Emmys. In 2020, he was included on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2022, he won another Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.
He made his directorial debut in 2022 with the romantic comedy film Anything's Possible. Porter received the Isabelle Stevenson Award at the 77th Tony Awards for his humanitarian work with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and Entertainment Community Fund.
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Acting
57 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Daily Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
American Horror Story
Saturday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
Dancing with the Stars
Project Runway
Sherri
The View
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
Big Mouth
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Newsnight
Desus & Mero
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
MTV Video Music Awards
The Drew Barrymore Show
Tamron Hall
People's Choice Awards
Celebrity Family Feud
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
The Oscars
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
POSE
Stars in the House
Gossip Girl
Who Do You Think You Are?
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Anastasia
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star
Trailblazer Honors
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Dear...
Cinderella
Visible: Out on Television
80 for Brady
Middlemost Post
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Like a Boss
That's My Jam
Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry
Indie Sex
Noel
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
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