William Ellis Porter II (born September 21, 1969) is an American singer, actor, writer, director and businessperson. He gained notice performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer and actor. For his role as Lola in Kinky Boots, he 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 Musical. He credits the part for "cracking open" his feminine side to confront toxic masculinity. He also won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the musical's accompanying album.
Porter starred in all three seasons of the television series Pose, for which he was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, becoming the first gay black man to be nominated and win in any lead acting category at the Primetime Emmys. In 2020, he was included on Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2022, he won another Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.
He made his directorial debut in 2022 with the romantic comedy film Anything's Possible. Porter received the Isabelle Stevenson Award at the 77th Tony Awards for his humanitarian work with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and Entertainment Community Fund.
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Date: 22 September 1969
By JAMES F. CLARITYSpecial to The New York Times
James CLARITYSpecial
Soviet magazine Zhurnalist, pub by Journalists Union and Pravda, assesses 19 'most important' US dailies, finds them generally unprogressive, heavy with ad and ties to special interest groups; excerpts
Date: 22 September 1969
By RAYMOND H. ANDERSONSpecial to The New York Times
Raymond ANDERSONSpecial
to lose post as Arab Socialist Union Orgn Com chmn, remain union Higher Exec Com member
Date: 22 September 1969
2-wk period of relative press freedom, begun with pub of manifesto stemming from Elbrick kidnapping, ends as full censorship resumes
Date: 21 September 1969
10th annual W R Hearst Foundation coll journalism awards program set
Date: 21 September 1969
Special to The New York Times
Colby College Lovejoy Award to J S Knight (Knight Newspapers)
Date: 21 September 1969
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Malcolm BROWNE
discussed as major problem confronting Pacheco Govt; their latest exploit, kidnapping of banker and newspaper publisher G Pellegrini Giampetro, detailed; continuing radio broadcasts, originating from clandestine transmitters, noted; strict press and radio censorship currently in effect seen indicative of extent of Govt's concern
Date: 21 September 1969
New anti-USSR song 'Smash a New Czar' reptdly is most popular of pop music songs in Communist China
Date: 21 September 1969
HERMAN LEVlN
Herman LEVlN
NY producer H Levin lr protests Marowitz article
Date: 21 September 1969
Special to The New York Times
Date: 21 September 1969
Anon lr to NY Times says explosion at Fed office bldg in Manhattan Civic Center was caused by time bomb as 'act of solidarity' with 'revolutionaries all over world'