10 Best Mike Colter Roles (According To IMDB)
10 Best Mike Colter Roles (According To IMDB)
From MCU shows like Jessica Jones to gritty crime dramas like Criminal Minds, Mike Colter has been around the block. Here’s his best roles via IMDB.
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Born in 1976 in South Carolina, Mike Colter wanted to be an actor ever since he was 8 eight years old. He started acting in a drama club in his school and later got a degree in theatre. After finishing his studies, he moved to Los Angeles to work on his acting career. His beginnings were tough but he eventually started scoring guest parts in TV shows and gradually moved to bigger and bigger parts, both on TV and in films.
Nowadays, he’s best known for playing the superhero Luke Cage in the titular TV show, but Mike Colter has done a lot more work. Here are his 10 best acting parts, as ranked on IMDb.
10 Breakthrough: 7.6
Documentaries play just as important part of television as fictional stories do. They allow people to learn something new and widen their horizons. Plus, they often last for a long time which makes them a good job for any actor.
If you’ve seen a lot of Mike Colter’s work, then you’ll know he has a very charismatic and distinct voice that is easy and pleasant to listen to. It comes as no surprise then that he gave his voice to this documentary show as a narrator. As for its content, the show focuses on cutting edge innovations and inventions of science that could have a great impact on everyone’s future.
9 Evil: 7.6
Mike Colter’s tenth best-rated acting work on IMDb might not be as known as other TV shows on this list but fans of crime and horror TV shows may have noticed it before. The series is relatively new, it only premiered last year, and as such, only has one season out at the moment.
The first season had thirteen episodes and the second one should come out this year if everything goes well. Evil tells the story of a skeptical clinical psychologist who joins forces with a future priest and a blue-collar contractor and they investigate strange cases together. Mike Colter plays one of the leading parts so if you’ve missed him on TV, Evil is your chance to catch up on his latest work.
8 ER: 7.7
Besides crime TV shows, another popular genre is medical shows that usually take place in hospitals. ER is one such example of this type of show and it became immensely popular which resulted in fifteen years of existence, from 1994 to 2009, and fifteen seasons in total.
The series was focused on the doctors and nurses working in the Chicago’s County General Hospital and it included both their professional and personal lives. The show featured many memorable names, such as George Clooney or Alex Kingston, to name just two, but Mike Colter also played a part in it. He portrayed a character named Watts in an episode titled Hindsight in 2002, making this one of his oldest acting performances on this list.
7 Jessica Jones: 8.0
Before he appeared in his solo series, Luke Cage first played an important part in the first season of the Netflix Marvel show Jessica Jones. He and Jessica had a brief romantic relationship but it fell apart when Luke found out that Jessica killed his wife when she was being mind-controlled by Kilgrave.
The two heroes remained on friendly terms but they never rekindled their romance, not like in the comics where they got married and even had a child together. Luke appeared in eight episodes of Jessica Jones in total, between 2015 and 2019, and he and Jessica later were part of The Defenders together.
6 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: 8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit isn’t the last long-running crime series that will appear on this list and which also saw Mike Colter in a single episode. The show has been around for a long time, it first aired in 1999 and the audience can still watch in on TV even in 2020. As of now, the series has 21 seasons and at least three more are currently in the works
As its title suggests, the show focuses on the Special Victims Unit, a special part of the N.Y.P.D., which investigates sexually related crimes. Mike Colter played the part of Samuel Mbazzi back in 2009 in an episode titled simply ‘Hell’.
5 Million Dollar Baby: 8.1
Mike Colter is best known for his work on numerous television shows of different genres but he also did his fair share of film work. And one of the most prominent films he ever worked on is the highly successful and critically-acclaimed sports drama Million Dollar Baby.
Clint Eastwood directed the film and he also played the part of an aging trainer Frankie Dunn who trains a talented boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) who’s successful at first but eventually faces a horrible destiny. Mike Colter portrayed the part of the boxer Big Willie Little in the heartwrenching, and intense film that also won four Oscars.
4 American Horror Story: 8.1
The TV series American Horror Story is a clear example that horror anthologies are far from finished. It currently has nine seasons and at least four more are in the works so the series is showing no signs of stopping down. Each season takes place in a different environment, for example, the first one was about a haunted house and the second one about an asylum.
Mike Colter appeared in the third season titled Coven about a witch coven and he played the part of David for three episodes, from 2013 to 2014. David was a witch hunter who worked for another character.
3 Criminal Minds: 8.1
Kickstarting your career and gaining experience and exposure in a long-lasting TV series (usually crime series) is a rite of passage for many young actors and not just Americans. Criminal Minds are such as series since it ran for whopping fifteen seasons from 2005 to 2015, had over 300 episodes and thousands of guest actors.
The show focused on the F.B.I. Behavioral Analysis Unit who tried to predict the next steps of the most dangerous criminals out there before they could commit another crime. Mike Colter appeared in an episode called Final Shot in 2013 and he played the part of a sniper Colin Bramwell.
2 The Good Wife: 8.3
Even those who don’t like to watch crime and drama TV shows heard the name The Good Wife at least once. The series ran for seven seasons, from 2009 to 2016, and it quickly became fan-favorite of this genre. It focused on Alicia Florrick who used to be only a wife to her successful husband but after he gets imprisoned, she has to figure out how to take care of her family and go back to work.
The show features a lot of known actors, such as Michael J. Fox, Alan Cumming, Matthew Goode, and others. Mike Colter played Lemmond Bishop for 21 episodes and he also reprised the part later in his career (see below).
1 The Good Fight: 8.3
There are many actors who often appear in so many TV shows that it’s easy to lose track of whom they played, where and for how long.
Since Mike Colter has a rich TV filmography, it won’t come as a surprise that he’s one of those actors. If it’s been a while since you’ve watched The Good Fight, you might have forgotten his two-episode presence as Lemond Bishop. Besides Colter, the show stars many known actors, such as Christine Baranski or Rose Leslie from Game of Thrones. It has three seasons and its fourth season is airing right these days.
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