McKinley Belcher III

The American actor and writer McKinley Belcher III was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and completed a master's degree in acting at the USC School of Dramatic Arts in 2010 after attending Belmont University. His first film role came in John Sayles's Go for Sisters in 2013, and that same year he appeared Off-Broadway in Romeo and Juliet. He won a Drama Desk Award in 2016 for playing the boxer Fish in The Royale at Lincoln Center. His Broadway debut came in 2020 with A Soldier's Play, and he played Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman from 2022 to 2023. On television he was Samuel Diggs in Mercy Street, Anthony Carter in The Passage, and Momodu Gondo in We Own This City. He played Detective Michael Ledroit in the Netflix series Eric, which earned him a 2025 BAFTA TV Award nomination.