Billy Porter
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1969-09-21
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Adventure Mantra
- Unprotected
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Film & TV
Acting · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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…
Known for
- The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping — Magno Stift2026
- Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It — Self2026
- Christmas Karma — The Ghost of Christmas Present2025
- I Was Born This Way — Self2025
- My Happy Place — Self2025
- Eric André Live Near Broadway — Self2024
- Disco's Revenge2024
- Live from the Other Side with Tyler Henry — Self2024
- 80 for Brady — Gugu2023
- Little Richard: I Am Everything — Self2023
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- 69,971
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Billy Porter (born September 21, 1969 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a Broadway performer and pop vocalist. He graduated from the Musical Theatre Program at Anderson High School's School of Drama and achieved fame performing on Broadway before going off on a solo career as a singer. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts with a B.F.A in Drama. He is probably best known for his portrayal of the Teen Angel in the 1994 revival of Grease!. <a href="https://www.last.fm/m
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship
· 1995 · cited 9,962x
- NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease
· 2018 · cited 9,177x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,035x
- Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in
<i>Phenix</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,179x
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Key dates
- Born
- 21 September 1969
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Billy
- Family name
- Porter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
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1969 births20th-century African-American male actors20th-century American LGBTQ people20th-century American male actors20th-century American male singers20th-century American singers21st-century African-American male actors21st-century American LGBTQ people21st-century American male actors21st-century American male singers21st-century American singers