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Billy Porter
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.…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Porter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Movie Magno Stift
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2026
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
Movie Self
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2025
Christmas Karma
Movie The Ghost of Christmas Present
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2025
Freeman Vines
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
I Was Born This Way
Movie Self
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2025
My Happy Place
TV show Self
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2024
(pride/prom)
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry
TV show Self
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2024
Disco's Revenge
Movie Self
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2024
Eric André Live Near Broadway
Movie Self
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2023
Queen of New York
Movie
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2023
Our Son
Movie Gabriel
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2023
Truth Be Told
Movie
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2023
Let the Canary Sing
Movie Self
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2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
Movie Self - Guest
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2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Movie Self
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2023
80 for Brady
Movie Gugu
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2023
Accused
TV show Director
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2022
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!
Movie Self
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2022
A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
TV show Self
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
- 2022
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2022
Anything's Possible
Movie Director
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2022
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Movie Pray Tell (archive footage)
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2022
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
TV show Randall (voice)
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2022
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
TV show Self - Special Guest
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2021
That's My Jam
TV show Self - Guest
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2021
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV show Self - Panellist
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2021
Cinderella
Movie Fabulous Godmother
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2021
Smoke, Lilies and Jade
Movie
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2021
Sanctuary
Movie Writer
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2021
The Circuit
TV show Self - Singer/Actor
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2021
Middlemost Post
TV show Recycle King (voice)
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2021
Gossip Girl
TV show Singer
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2021
That Damn Michael Che
TV show
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2021
Where Love Lives: A Story of Dancefloor Culture & Expression
Movie (Himself)
- 2021
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2020
Equal
TV show Narrator
