Inside Colman Domingo’s super sweet love story with husband Raúl

Colman Domingo is about to be celebrated for his unbelievable success on the 57th NAACP Image Awards.

The two-time Oscar nominee will obtain the honorary President’s Award on February 28, which is given in recognition of particular achievement and distinguished public service. The nod comes two years after Domingo had a double win at the Image Awards, taking residence prizes for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for Rustin and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for The Color Purple.

Colman, 56, has an extra two nominations this 12 months, for Supporting Actor and Directing on the Netflix sequence The Four Seasons. Outside of his big skilled success, Colman has additionally discovered a beautiful combine in his private life.

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He met his husband, Raul, over 20 years in the past, with their love story going viral beforehand when he mentioned how they discovered love. The pair – who married in 2014 – made a really “conscious” resolution to maintain their relationship personal and are hardly ever pictured collectively.

Colman shared the story of how they met throughout a 2024 episode of The Graham Norton Show within the UK, whereas he was selling Rustin, with the clip later going viral. In the footage, he recollects an opportunity assembly at a Walgreens practically 20 years in the past. He stated, “I see this guy and we look at each other and I’m like, ‘Oh my God.'”

He described Raul as a person with “beautiful hair, lip piercing, beautiful.” He added, “He kept looking at me, and I was like, ‘What’s going on?'”

At the time, he was talking on the phone while the stranger, Raul, appeared to be in a tense conversation with someone else, making it hard for Colman to approach. He said, “I get off the phone, and they walk on down the street, but he keeps looking back. And I wave but he just keeps going.”

Three days later, fate intervened when Colman stumbled across a Craigslist “missed connection” post that perfectly described their brief encounter. “Saw you outside of Walgreens, Berkeley,” the ad read. Amazingly, Raul had posted it just two hours after they first crossed paths.

Colman shared, “I jumped up like, ‘Are you kidding me? That’s me.’ He described me with my faux-hawk (it was 2005)… we met up three days later, we had our first date…I said, ‘I think I love you and you’re about to change my life,’…and we’ve been together almost 19 years.”

Speaking to The Times, Colman admitted discussing how they met was not an informal resolution, however a part of a concerted technique to fulfill public demand with out sacrificing details about the internal workings of their relationship. He defined: “That was very conscious. We knew that at some point people are going to be asking about my relationship, asking about my husband, and so we thought, ‘We’ll give you one simple story. But only one story.’

“And so we nonetheless keep a degree of privateness about our every day lives. He’s my greatest good friend, we’ve got a manufacturing firm collectively, however we’re not a pair you are going to see on a pink carpet fairly often. We’re very acutely aware. We’re simply not that couple.”

Colman also made a rare public tribute to Raul when he accepted his Emmy Award for guest actor in a drama series in 2022. He said, “Lots of kindness introduced me to this stage, individuals who love me, individuals who carry me up. Thank you to these folks. Thank you to my darling Raúl, that is for you.”

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