Billy Porter
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.
100 acting credits · 4 directing credits
Acting · 100
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Law & Order
1990
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
American Horror Story
2011
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Dancing with the Stars
2005
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
Project Runway
2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
Sherri
2022
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
2007
Big Mouth
2017
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Tamron Hall
2019
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
Stars in the House
2020
The Drew Barrymore Show
2020
Newsnight
1980
The Oscars
1953
Celebrity Family Feud
2015
People's Choice Awards
1975
The Twilight Zone
2019
Gossip Girl
2021
POSE
2018
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
1972
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
2022
Desus & Mero
2019
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
2022
Anastasia
1997
Trailblazer Honors
2014
That's My Jam
2021
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
2022
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star
2019
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Dear...
2020
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
Indie Sex
2007
Middlemost Post
2021
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
2021
Cinderella
2021
Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry
2024
Visible: Out on Television
2020
That Damn Michael Che
2021
Equal
2020
Like a Boss
2020
80 for Brady
2023
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023
Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
1991
Noel
2004
My Happy Place
2025
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
2000
Christmas Karma
2025
Our Son
2023
Olivier Awards
1981
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006
The Circuit
2021
Where Love Lives: A Story of Dancefloor Culture & Expression
2021
The Humbling
2014
Every Act of Life
2018
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
2022
The Grammys
1959
Broadway: The Next Generation
—
Intern
2000
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2022
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
Together in Pride: You Are Not Alone
2020
Let the Canary Sing
2023
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
2026
Pose-a-Thon for Pride
2020
Indie Sex: Teens
2008
Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas to All!
2022
Queen of New York
2023
Heart of Broadway: The Ensemble Behind Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
2011
25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
2021
I Was Born This Way
2025
The Shoe
2011
Twisted
1996
Eric André Live Near Broadway
2024
Disco's Revenge
2024
All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise
2006
Colorz of Rage
1999
Truth Be Told
2023
Camp
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Raquel: Total Beauty and Fitness
1984
Smoke, Lilies and Jade
2021
