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Saturday Night Live took on CNN’s LGBTQ Town Hall, with a little help from Emmy-winning Pose actor Billy Porter. Porter served as the ultra-dramatic announcer on SNL’s version of the Democratic town hall, which took place Thursday in Los Angeles. Impeccably dressed in a red and black smoking jacket and bedazzled…

Emmy Award-winning Pose actor Billy Porter said when he tried to break into Hollywood in the 1980s, the industry was only looking for three types of African American actors — "James Earl Jones, the patriarch. Denzel Washington, the sex symbol, or genius clown, Eddie Murphy." Porter was none of the above, he told the…

Billy Porter has confirmed he’ll be joining Sony's upcoming adaptation of Cinderella. In a Q&A Saturday evening at the New Yorker Festival, Porter told attendees he’ll play the Fairy Godmother opposite Camila Cabello, who’s set to star as the glass slipper-wearing lead character. As Deadline reported earlier this…

Category is: Fairytale realness! Newly minted Emmy winning Pose actor Billy Porter is going from the ballroom culture of ’90s New York to the ballroom culture of a land far, far away as he is in talks to join Sony’s forthcoming adaptation of Cinderella, Deadline has learned. Sony has declined to comment about the…

In the major acting categories, diverse winners was off to a slow start at the Creative Arts Emmys last week when Jane Lynch and Luke Kirby won for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel while Bradley Whitford and Cherry Jones won for The Handmaid’s Tale. If you include reality host in the mix, you can include RuPaul Charles as…

When the best part of your Emmy Awards broadcast tonight is the short sendoffs to series that have finished including Games of Thrones and Veep, you might want to get your gaze out of the rearview mirror before you lose control. Sadly, that's not what the host-free 71st Primetime Emmy Awards chose to do. Which is why…

UPDATED with video: Category is: groundbreaking history at the Emmys realness. Billy Porter took the Emmy tonight for his role as the outspoken, fierce and fabulous ballroom emcee Pray Tell in FX’s Pose. He makes history as the first openly gay black man to win an Emmy in the Lead Actor category. Upon walking on the…

Although he's been acting for over 30 years, it wasn't until FX's Pose that Billy Porter got the widespread notice he deserves. In the groundbreaking, critically-acclaimed series set in the late '80s New York ball scene of vogueing and strutting, Porter slays as Pray Tell, a resident emcee and father figure who will…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the season two finale of Pose. Not even five minutes into the season two finale of Pose and the emotions start stirring as it is evident there has been a time jump from last week’s episode of fun in the sun. Now in 1991, we see Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) and Pray Tell (Billy…

Tonight at Los Angeles' Pacific Design Center, Pose co-creator Ryan Murphy joined star Billy Porter for a discussion of the series, in celebration of its six Emmy nominations and other groundbreaking achievements, as the series with the largest cast of transgender and LGBTQ actors in television history. More…

As Pose reaches the end of its second season (with its eye on it third), the critically acclaimed, six-time Emmy nominated FX series has shared the ’80s and ’90s ballroom culture with the masses and in turn, had an impact on pop culture with its authentic and thoughtful portrayal during a defining era of the LGBTQ…

A deadpan “Really?” was Pose actor and red carpet sartorial king Billy Porter’s initial reaction to his Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as the no-nonsense ballroom emcee Pray Tell on the FX series about the New York City ball scene in the ’80s. Porter, who was on vacation when…