Billy Porter

**William Ellis Porter II** (an haife shi a watan Satumba 21, 1969) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne kuma mawaƙi ɗan Amurka. Porter ya sami sanarwa yana yin wasan Broadway kafin ya fara aikin solo a matsayin mawaƙa da ɗan wasan kwaikwayo. Don rawar da ya taka a matsayin Lola a cikin Kinky Boots, Porter ya lashe lambar yabo ta Tony Award na 2013 don Mafi kyawun ɗan wasan kwaikwayo a cikin Musical, lambar yabo ta Drama Desk don Fitaccen ɗan wasan kwaikwayo a cikin Musical da kuma Kyautar Circle Critics Circle don Fitaccen ɗan wasan kwaikwayo a cikin Musical. Ya yaba da bangaren don "bude budewa" bangarensa na mata don fuskantar mazaje masu guba. Har ila yau Porter ya sami lambar yabo ta Grammy na 2014 don Mafi kyawun Kundin gidan wasan kwaikwayo na kida don kundi na rakiyar kidan.

Porter ya yi tauraro a cikin dukkanin yanayi uku na jerin talabijin na Pose, wanda aka ba shi lambar yabo ta Golden Globe Awards uku kuma ya ci lambar yabo ta 2019 Primetime Emmy Award don Fitaccen Jarumin Jarumi a cikin jerin Wasan kwaikwayo, ya zama ɗan luwaɗi na farko da aka zaɓa kuma ya yi nasara a kowane nau'in wasan kwaikwayo na jagora a Primetime Emmys. A cikin 2020, an saka shi cikin jerin mutane 100 mafi tasiri a duniya Time's. A cikin 2022, ya ci wani lambar yabo ta Tony don Mafi Kyawun Kiɗa a matsayin mai gabatarwa don kiɗan A Strange Loop.

Ya fara fitowa a matsayin darakta a cikin 2022 tare da fim ɗin ban dariya mai ban dariya Duk abin da zai yiwu. Porter ya sami lambar yabo ta Isabelle Stevenson a lambar yabo ta Tony Awards na 77 don ayyukan jin kai da Gidauniyar Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation da Asusun Al'umma na Nishaɗi.

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Porter a ranar 21 ga Satumba, 1969, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ga William Ellis Porter da Cloerinda Jean Johnson Porter Ford. 'Yar'uwarsa Maryamu Martha E. Ford. Ya girma a cikin dangin Pentikostal na “mai tsananin addini” kuma ya kwatanta yadda mahaifinsa ya yi lalata da shi a tsakanin shekaru 7 zuwa 12.

Ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Reizenstein, kafin ya kammala karatunsa daga Makarantar Sakandare ta Allderdice a Pittsburgh da Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School a 1987. A lokacin bazara na 1985 zuwa 1987, Porter ya kasance memba na ƙungiyoyin nishaɗi "Spirit" da "Flash," waɗanda ke yin kullun a Kennywood, wurin shakatawa na Pittsburgh-yankin.

Kodayake yana ɗokin ƙaura zuwa birnin New York, ɗaya daga cikin malaman makarantar Porter ya ƙarfafa shi ya nemi Jami'ar Carnegie Mellon. Yana ɗaukan malamansa a matsayin "mala'iku a rayuwarsa" don jagorantar shi zuwa ga damar ilimi wanda ya shirya shi don aikinsa. Porter ya taɓa yin tunani kan wannan shawarar:

Yana da game da shiga. Yana da game da damar. Akan ilimi ne. Na yi tafiyar minti 12 daga Jami'ar Carnegie Mellon tsawon rayuwata kuma ban san cewa tana ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun makarantun wasan kwaikwayo a duniya ba. Ta yaya ban san haka ba? Wannan shi ne abin da muke nufi idan muka ce ba daidai ba — ba filin wasa ba ne. Da [malamina] bai ce wani abu ba, da na ƙaura zuwa birnin New York ba tare da shiri ba kuma na yi tanka. Saboda malamai, mala'iku a rayuwata da suka gan ni tun kafin in ga kaina, suka ce, "Za ka wuce nan, ji kawai." Kuma na san isa da gaske in yi shiru in saurare.

Ya sauke karatu daga Kwalejin Fine Arts a Jami'ar Carnegie Mellon tare da Bachelor of Fine Arts a Drama a 1991 kuma daga baya ya sami takardar shaida daga ƙwararren matakin digiri na digiri a cikin rubutun allo a UCLA.

## Sana'a
Porter ya fito a kan wasan kwaikwayo na basirar Amurka Tauraron Bincike a cikin 1992 kuma ya ci $ 100,000, yana fitowa a kan wasan kwaikwayo iri ɗaya da sauran taurari na gaba, irin su matashi Britney Spears.

Porter ya buga Teen Angel a cikin farfadowar Broadway na 1994 na Grease. Sauran nunin nunin da ya kasance sun haɗa da Miss Saigon akan Broadway (1991; 1999), Topdog / Underdog a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na City (2004), Jesus Christ Superstar da Dreamgirls a Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (2004), da kuma waƙoƙin waƙoƙin tatsuniyoyi da waƙoƙin waƙoƙi da waƙoƙin sabuwar duniya.

Porter ya rubuta kuma ya yi a cikin nunin tarihin kansa na mutum ɗaya, Ghetto Superstar (Mutumin da Ni Ne) a gidan Pub na Joe a cikin birnin New York a cikin Fabrairu da Maris 2005. An zabe shi don "Fitaccen gidan wasan kwaikwayo na New York: Broadway & Off Broadway Award" a lambar yabo ta GLAAD Media karo na 17.

A cikin Satumba 2010, Porter ya bayyana a matsayin Belize a cikin Sa hannun Kamfanin Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Kamfanin 20th na samar da mala'ikun Tony Kushner a Amurka.

Porter ya samo asali ne da rawar "Lola" a cikin Kinky Boots akan Broadway a cikin 2013, tare da waƙoƙin Cyndi Lauper, littafin Harvey Fierstein kuma Jerry Mitchell ya jagoranta/choreographed. Porter ya lashe lambar yabo ta 2013 Drama Desk Award don Fitaccen ɗan wasan kwaikwayo a cikin Musical da Tony Award don Mafi kyawun ɗan wasan kwaikwayo a cikin Musical don wannan rawar.

## Manazarta