Billy Porter

Known for ActingBorn 1969-09-21 (age 57)Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It

25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love

Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Queen of New York

POSE

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love

American Horror Story

The Grammys

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Middlemost Post

People's Choice Awards

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Simpsons

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Celebrity Family Feud

Big Mouth

PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation

MTV Video Music Awards

Trailblazer Honors

Gossip Girl

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

The Graham Norton Show

Disco's Revenge

Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry

Law & Order

Eric André Live Near Broadway

Accused

Who Do You Think You Are?

Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star

Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story

Visible: Out on Television

The Twilight Zone

Raquel: Total Beauty and Fitness

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Let the Canary Sing

Saturday Night Live

The Oscars

A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

Every Act of Life

RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World

That Damn Michael Che

Cinderella

Golden Globe Awards

Our Son

80 for Brady

Like a Boss