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Billy Porter

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Claim to fame

Billy Porter has appeared on Broadway in Kinky Boots, Grease, Smokey Joe’s Café, Five Guys Named Moe & Miss Saigon. He’s also starred in Dreamgirls, Ghetto Superstar (The Man That I Am) and Angels in America. Screen credits include The Broken Hearts Club, Twisted and Shake, Rattle and Roll as Little Richard.

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Patina Miller, Cicely Tyson and Billy Porter shine as they celebrate their momentous victories in the night’s top acting categories.

It’s Kinky Boots stars Stark Sands and Billy Porter! Stark is wearing a Diesel tux and Porter is in a tux by Wooyoungmi.

Kinky Boots winner Billy Porter and his mentee, Pippin winner Patina Miller, have an emotional reunion on the red carpet.

Look who else dropped in to say hi to Billy Porter and Stark Sands: it’s Law & Order alum Christopher Meloni.

Billy Porter gives Zachary Levi a lesson in looking fabulous before Levi makes his Broadway debut in First Date.

Tony winner Ben Vereen takes in the scene backstage with Kinky Boots’ Tony-nominated leads Stark Sands and Billy Porter.

The two leading men of Kinky Boots give a warm welcome to another upcoming Broadway duo, First Date’s Krysta Rodriguez and Zachary Levi.

Let’s see those jazz hands! Ben Vereen shows Stark Sands, Celina Carvajal, Annaleigh Ashford and Billy Porter how it’s done!

Kinky Boots’ Tony nominated director (and recent Abbott Award winner) Jerry Mitchell gets in on the backstage festivities with Stark Sands, Angela Bassett, Billy Porter and S. Epatha Merkerson.

Even the great Quincy Jones is wowed by Billy Porter's phenomenal performance as Lola in Kinky Boots.

Pop star Valerie Simpson is also in the house, and shares a snapshot with Billy Porter and Quincy Jones.

The following day, music legend Quincy Jones receives group hug from Kinky quartet Stark Sands, Annaleigh Ashford, Celina Carvajal and Billy Porter.

Kinky Boots’ award-winning star Billy Porter couldn’t be happier than to have his dear friends Angela Bassett and S. Epatha Merkerson at the theater.

Kinky Boots stars Celina Carvajal, Billy Porter, Stark Sands and Annaleigh Ashford welcome Angela Bassett and S. Epatha Merkerson to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

These guys! Quincy Jones gives it up for the cast of the Tony-nominated musical Kinky Boots.

Kinky Boots' Billy Porter addresses the lunching crowd. Check out his starry tablemates!

Passion's Judy Kuhn chats on the stage with fellow nominees Pippin's Patina Miller and Kinky Boots star Billy Porter.

Kinky Boots showstopper Billy Porter poses with Passion’s leading duo, Judy Kuhn and Ryan Silverman.

Kinky Boots’ Tony-nominated stars Billy Porter and Stark Sands perform the duet “I’m Not My Father’s Son.”

Kinky Boots headliner Billy Porter and composer/lyricist Cyndi Lauper wouldn’t miss this big evening for Kinky's director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell.

If Patti LuPone and Lily Tomlin loved Kinky Boots, you sure will, too! Come see what Stark Sands, Harvey Fierstein, Billy Porter and Cyndi Lauper are up to at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre!

Lily Tomlin joins Patti LuPone and Matthew Morrison backstage at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where they receive a warm welcome from Daniel Stewart Sherman, Harvey Fierstein, Stark Sands, Annaleigh Ashford, Billy Porter and Cyndi Lauper.

Christian Borle, Matthew Morrison and Patti LuPone head backstage at Kinky Boots to congratulate writer Harvey Fierstein and Tony-nominated stars Billy Porter and Stark Sands.

Broadway legend Patti LuPone gives a squeeze to Kinky leading man Billy Porter.

After the show, an emotional Rosie O’Donnell congratulates Stark Sands, Cyndi Lauper and Billy Porter.

Stark Sands and Billy Porter get in touch with their inner rock gods, thanks to Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider.

Rosie O’Donnell embraces her former Grease co-star turned Kinky Boots headliner Billy Porter.

Look who's here! Dee Snider, Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell say hello to Kinky Boots stars Stark Sands and Billy Porter and composer Cyndi Lauper.

Tony-nominated director Jerry Mitchell gets in on some of the backstage love with Billy Porter, Whoopi Goldberg, Cyndi Lauper and Rosie O’Donnell.

The cast bids a fond farewell to their famous guests! As video blogger Billy Porter would say, “Be brave and get Kinky!

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Land of Lola: Backstage at Kinky Boots with Billy Porter, Episode 8: Tony Awards Sneak Peek

In the final Land of Lola, Kinky Boots Tony nominee Billy Porter brings fans inside Tony rehearsal, nominee events and Brenda Braxton’s beauty salon. He also sits down with co-stars Annaleigh Ashford and Stark Sands to get their Tony stories.

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Billy Porter

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