Billy Porter
- Recitazione
- 21 settembre 1969 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Hunger Games - L'alba sulla mietitura · Magno Stift
- Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It · In persona
- Christmas Karma · The Ghost of Christmas Present
- Freeman Vines · Produzione esecutiva
- I Was Born This Way · In persona, Produzione esecutiva
- My Happy Place · In persona
- (pride/prom) · Produzione esecutiva
- Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry · In persona
- Disco's Revenge · In persona
- Eric André Live Near Broadway · In persona
- Queen of New York
- Nostro figlio · Gabriel
- Truth Be Told
- Lasciate cantare il canarino - Cyndi Lauper · In persona
- Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love · In persona
- Little Richard: I Am Everything · In persona
- 80 voglia di Brady · Gugu
- Accused: Sotto processo · Regia
- Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All! · In persona
- A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting · Produzione esecutiva
- Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? · In persona
- The Jennifer Hudson Show
- Sherri · In persona
- Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon · In persona
- Tutto è possibile · Regia
- PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation · Pray Tell (archive footage)
- La famiglia Proud - Più forte e orgogliosa · Randall (Voce)
- RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World · In persona
- That's My Jam · In persona
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks · In persona
- Cenerentola · Fabulous Godmother
- Smoke, Lilies and Jade
- Sanctuary · Sceneggiatura
- The Circuit · In persona
- I postini di Middlemost · Recycle King (Voce)
- Gossip Girl · Singer
- That Damn Michael Che
- Where Love Lives: A Story of Dancefloor Culture & Expression · (Himself)
- 25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
- Equal · Narrator
- The Drew Barrymore Show · In persona
- Pose-a-Thon for Pride · In persona
- Dear... · In persona
- Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone · In persona
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire · In persona
- Stars in the House · In persona
- Visible: Out on Television · In persona
- Amiche in affari · Barrett
- The Tamron Hall Show · In persona
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · In persona
- The Twilight Zone
- Glow Up · In persona
- Desus & Mero · In persona
- POSE · Pray Tell
- Every Act of Life · In persona
- Big Mouth · Ocean (Voce)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · In persona
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · In persona
- Celebrity Family Feud · In persona
- The Late Late Show with James Corden · In persona
- The Humbling · Prince
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · In persona
- Trailblazer Honors · In persona
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver · In persona
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · In persona
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · In persona
- The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America · Dizzy Gillespie (Voce)
- American Horror Story · Behold Chablis
- Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS · In persona
- The Shoe
- Who Do You Think You Are? · In persona
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · In persona
- Indie Sex: Teens
- Al passo con i Kardashian · In persona
- Indie Sex · In persona
- The Graham Norton Show · In persona
- All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise · In persona
- Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema · In persona, Musica
- Germany's Next Topmodel · In persona
- Dancing with the Stars · In persona