Creator / Mike Colter

Mike Randal Colter (born August 26, 1976) is an African-American actor from Columbia, South Carolina. He has a Masters in Fine Arts from Rutgers University.

One of Colter's early high-profile roles was Big Willie Little in Million Dollar Baby. He also played a recurring role as drug kingpin Lemond Bishop on the CBS Law Procedural The Good Wife during the 2010s. He also originated the role of ONI Special Agent (later SPARTAN-IV) Jameson Locke in the Halo franchise and plays Luke Cage in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since 2019 he has also starred in CBS/Paramount+'s Evil (2019) as David Acosta.

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Filmography

• ER: Watts in "Hindsight" (2002)
• The Parkers: Lamer in "Lights, Camera, Action"
• Million Dollar Baby (2004): Big Willie Little
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury: Officer Billy Tolbert in "Blue Wall" (2005)
• Brooklyn Lobster (2005)'': Jamal
• Silver Bells (2005): Bill
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Dave Oldren in "Albatross" (2007)
• And Then Came Love (2007): Yuppie Paul
• Solving Charlie (2009): Jack Dash
• Taking Chance (2009): Master Gunnery Sergeant Demetry
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Joseph Serumaga in "Hell" (2009)
• Royal Pains: Officer Tanner in "Lovesick" (2010)
• Salt (2010): CIA Tactical Leader
• The Good Wife: Lemond Bishop (2010-2015)
• Blue Bloods: Cliff Reacher in "The Blue Templar" (2011)
• Ringer: Malcolm Ward (2011-12)
• Men in Black 3 (2012): Colonel James Darrell Edwards II
• Zero Dark Thirty (2012): DEVGRU Operative Mike
• The Following (2013): Nick Donovan
• Criminal Minds: Colin Bramwell in "Final Shot" (2013)
• American Horror Story: Coven (2014): David
• Halo: Jameson Locke
  • Halo: Nightfall (2014)
  • Halo 2: Anniversary (part of The Master Chief Collection, 2014)
  • Halo 5: Guardians (2015)^note Provided early motion capture and voice work, but scheduling conflicts with the Marvel shows meant he had to be replaced by Ike Amadi.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe: Luke Cage
  • Jessica Jones (2015) (2015)
  • Luke Cage (2016) (2016)
  • The Defenders (2017) (2017)
• Extinction (2018) as David.
• Evil (2019) as David Acosta (2019-)
• Seis Manos as Brister
• Fatale as Rafe Grimes
• Plane as Louis

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Tropes found in his roles:

• Scary Black Man: With an Affably Evil twist. Lemond Bishop and Jameson Locke in particular are both well-spoken, unflappable, and dangerously competent at what they do (which means the first two are all the scarier).
• Word of Saint Paul: invoked He commented that he interpreted Lemond Bishop as an MBA graduate who simply saw the drug business as the best place to use his skills.

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