Billy Porter
- Interprétation
- 21 septembre 1969 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biographie
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Porter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmographie
- Hunger Games : Lever de soleil sur la moisson · Magno Stift
- Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It · En personne
- Christmas Karma · The Ghost of Christmas Present
- Freeman Vines · Production exécutive
- I Was Born This Way · En personne, Production exécutive
- My Happy Place · En personne
- (pride/prom) · Production exécutive
- En direct de l'autre monde avec Tyler Henry · En personne
- La Revanche du Disco · En personne
- Eric André Live Near Broadway · En personne
- Queen of New York
- Notre fils · Gabriel
- Truth Be Told
- Let the Canary Sing · En personne
- Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love · En personne
- Little Richard: I Am Everything · En personne
- Tom Brady à tout prix · Gugu
- Accused · Réalisation
- Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All! · En personne
- A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting · Production exécutive
- Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? · En personne
- The Jennifer Hudson Show
- Sherri · En personne
- Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon · En personne
- Rien n'est impossible · Réalisation
- PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation · Pray Tell (archive footage)
- Cool Attitude : Encore plus cool · Randall (Voix)
- RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World · En personne
- That's My Jam · En personne
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks · En personne
- Cendrillon · Fabulous Godmother
- Smoke, Lilies and Jade
- Sanctuary · Scénario
- The Circuit · En personne
- Les facteurs de Middlemost · Recycle King (Voix)
- Gossip Girl, nouvelle génération · Singer
- That Damn Michael Che
- Là Où L'Amour Vit · (Himself)
- 25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
- Equal · Narrator
- The Drew Barrymore Show · En personne
- Pose-a-Thon for Pride · En personne
- Lettre à... · En personne
- Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone · En personne
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire · En personne
- Stars in the House · En personne
- Visible: Out on Television · En personne
- Like a Boss · Barrett
- The Tamron Hall Show · En personne
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · En personne
- The Twilight Zone : La Quatrième Dimension
- Glow Up · En personne
- Desus & Mero · En personne
- POSE · Pray Tell
- Every Act of Life · En personne
- Big Mouth · Ocean (Voix)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · En personne
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · En personne
- Celebrity Family Feud · En personne
- The Late Late Show with James Corden · En personne
- En toute humilité... · Prince
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · En personne
- Trailblazer Honors · En personne
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver · En personne
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · En personne
- Le Tonight Show · En personne
- The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America · Dizzy Gillespie (Voix)
- American Horror Story · Behold Chablis
- Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS · En personne
- The Shoe
- Who Do You Think You Are? · En personne
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · En personne
- Indie Sex: Teens
- L'incroyable Famille Kardashian · En personne
- Indie Sex · En personne
- The Graham Norton Show · En personne
- All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise · En personne
- Fabulous ! L'Histoire du cinéma gay · En personne, Musique
- Germany's Next Topmodel · En personne
- Dancing with the Stars · En personne