Pose and Beyond | Billy Porter | Talks at Google
58Billy Porter is a Tony and Grammy Award-winning, and Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated, actor, singer, director, composer, and playwright from Pittsburgh, PA. His electric portrayal of “Pray Tell” in Pose earned him a Golden Globe nomination and a Critics’ Choice Award nomination. He also recently starred in the eighth season of Ryan Murphy’s acclaimed American Horror Story: Apocalypse as “Behold Chablis.”
Billy joins us to discuss his career, the recognition Black actors have received from the Emmy Award's this year and his thoughts about the lack of recognition for black trans actors on Pose, a show that shares the story of these women.
About Pose
Co-created by Ryan Murphy, Pose is a drama spotlighting the legends, icons and ferocious house mothers of New York’s underground ball culture, a movement that first gained notice in the late 1980s. Making television history, Pose features the largest cast of transgender actors in series regular roles. The Golden Globe-nominated and Emmy-nominated drama also features the largest recurring cast of LGBTQ actors ever for a scripted series.
More about Billy:
On screen, Porter was recently seen in Baz Luhrman’s The Get Down, starring Justice Smith, Shameik Moore and Herizen Guardiola. His other television credits include Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Big C, Law & Order, Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story and Another World. A veteran of the theatre, Porter is known for originating “Lola” in the smash hit Broadway musical Kinky Boots, for which he won the 2013 Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. Other Broadway acting credits include Shuffle Along, Miss Saigon, Five Guys Named Moe, Grease, Smokey Joe’s Café and Dreamgirls.
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