McKinley Belcher III Biography
McKinley Belcher III is an American actor, known for his starring role in the PBS television series Mercy Street as Samuel Diggs, Anthony Carter in the Fox genre drama The Passage and as Agent Trevor Evans in Netflix crime thriller Ozark.
McKinley Belcher III Age
McKinley Belcher III was born on March 23, 1984 in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
McKinley Belcher III Net Worth
Belcher has an estimated net worth of $18 Million.
McKinley Belcher III Education
Belcher went to elementary and middle school. he graduated from Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia in 2002, where he was in the International Baccalaureate program and ran track and cross country. He went to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated with a B.A. in Communication Studies and Political Science in 2006.
At Belmont Belcher competed on the Speech and Debate Team, winning awards as a debater and individual speaker. He subsequently went to USC School of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, where he won the Ava Greenwald Memorial Award and graduated with an MFA in Acting in 2010.
McKinley Belcher III Career
Theatre
In 2013, Belcher appeared Off-Broadway in Romeo and Juliet at Classic Stage Company and in 2016 won a Drama Desk Award for his performance as amateur boxer Fish in the ensemble of Marco Ramirez’s The Royale at Lincoln Center, directed by Rachel Chavkin. He also appeared as Sam in Darko Tresnjak’s 2015 world premiere production of Rear Window at Hartford Stage, together with Kevin Bacon.
Film and television
Belcher made his film debut in 2013 in John Sayles’ independent film Go for Sisters, playing Lisa Gay Hamilton’s son Rodney. In 2015, Belcher appeared in David Simon’s HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero as LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s son Dwayne Meeks, directed by Paul Haggis. He had his first experience as a series regular as Samuel Diggs in two seasons of PBS’s Ridley Scott-produced Civil War drama Mercy Street. His character, Samuel, is a free man who works as a laborer, but harbors secret knowledge and ability in medicine. Belcher was cast in 2018 as Anthony Carter in Fox’s drama The Passage, based on Justin Cronin’s novel by the same name.
McKinley Belcher III TV Show
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
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2013 |
Go for Sisters |
Rodney |
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2018 |
Mapplethorpe |
Milton Moore |
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2018 |
Trial By Fire |
Ponchai |
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2019 |
Untitled Noah Baumbach Project |
Theater Actor |
Post-production |
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2019 |
The Art of Racing in the Rain |
Mark Finn |
Post-production |
McKinley Belcher III TV Shows
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
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2010 |
Law & Order: Los Angeles |
Timmy Lutz |
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2011 |
Rizzoli & Isles |
Pvt. Lawrence |
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2012 |
Louie |
Gravedigger #1 |
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2014 |
Elementary |
Reeling Detective |
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2014–2017 |
Power |
Marcus |
Recurring (4 episodes) |
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2015 |
Madam Secretary |
Officer Wilson |
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2015 |
Chicago PD |
Aubrey Carrington |
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2015 |
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt |
Bryce |
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2015 |
Show Me a Hero |
Dwayne Meeks |
Recurring (5 episodes) |
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2016–2017 |
Mercy Street |
Samuel Diggs |
Series Regular (12 episodes) |
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2017–2018 |
Ozark |
Agent Trevor Evans |
Recurring (8 episodes) |
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2019- |
The Passage |
Anthony Carter |
Series Regular (10 episodes) |