Colman Domingo to Direct and Star in Nat King Cole Biopic

It's been quite the week for Colman Domingo. Right off the back of his well-deserved Oscar nomination for his role as the civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in George C. Wolfe’s Rustin and today's announcement that he would be playing the role of Joe Jackson, the patriarch of the legendary Jackson family, as well as the notoriously cruel and brutal manager and father of Michael Jackson, Domingo will be taking on another real-life role in the form of the iconic Nat King Cole. As exclusively revealed by Variety, Domingo is set to direct and star in a movie musical, based on the life of the performer, on which he is also the co-writer.