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Billy Porter
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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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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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Late Night with Seth Meyers
Law & Order
Saturday Night Live
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Golden Globe Awards
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Graham Norton Show
The Daily Show
The Oscars
The Simpsons
Celebrity Family Feud
Project Runway
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Dancing with the Stars
The Grammys
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Late Show with James Corden
MTV Video Music Awards
MTV Movie & TV Awards
American Horror Story
Big Mouth
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
The Twilight Zone
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Desus & Mero
People's Choice Awards
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star
That's My Jam
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Gossip Girl
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Dear...
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
Who Do You Think You Are?
Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry
That Damn Michael Che
Marvelous Moments with Maisel
Anastasia
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Noel
Visible: Out on Television
Cinderella
80 for Brady
Like a Boss
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
POSE
Our Son
Equal
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Cinderella
Accused
Anything's Possible
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