As of this writing, Colman’s net worth is $2 million, per Idol Net Worth and several other outlets. Anyone following Colman’s career these days, however, can tell he’s on his way to earning double, maybe triple that amount very soon.

After giving several captivating performances in 2023, including The Color Purple and as the late openly gay activist Bayard Rustin, Colman quickly launched into A-list status. In January 2024, days after he received his Oscar nod for Rustin, Out Magazine dubbed him “Hollywood’s first Black gay movie star.”

In Colman’s cover story for the magazine, he said that, while all of his characters don’t reflect all of his identities, he intentionally brings a little of each intersectionality into his characters.

“It wasn’t even designed that way,” Colman told the outlet of using his identity in his characters. “Though it is something I’ve just been trying to do my entire career, I need you to see me the way I see myself. I need you to see me without limitation. I want you to see me as an artist, as a thinker, as a creator.”

“In the middle [of both of these characters] is me who’s just constantly trying to explore Black men and how we operate, how we love, whether there’s redemption or not,” he continued. “There’s a human quality that I’m trying to explore in all these different kinds of people, whether they’re a pimp or a bandleader. I always want to be useful [to the narrative or story], and then let’s see how I can tell my story [through it].”