Michael Potts est un acteur américain. Il est surtout connu pour son le rôle de Frère Mouzone dans The Wire et Mafala Hatimbi dans la comédie musicale The Book of Mormon.
Scène :
Brazil, The America Play, New York Shakespeare Festival, MartinsonHall, Public Theater, New York City, 1994
Gratiano, Overtime, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, New York City, 1996
David Bradley, Mud, River, Stone, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1997
Sir Lucius O'Trigger, The Rivals, Adams Memorial Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA, 1998
Julius Snaith, A Cup of Coffee, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven,CT, 1999
Nicola, Arms and the Man, Roundabout Theatre Company, Gramercy Theatre, New York City, 2000
Ray and doctor, Joe Fearless (A Fan Dance), New York Performance Works, Atlantic Theatre, New York City, 2000
Brooklyn Bridge (staged reading), National Arts Club, New York City, 2000
Benvolio, Romeo and Juliet, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 2001
Revivalist minister, Salome (staged reading), Falconworks ArtistsGroup, New York City, 2001
Rudy, Once Around the City, Second Stage Theatre, New York City, 2001
Feste, Twelfth Night, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theater, New York City, 2002
Golden Boy, Encores!, City Center Theatre, New York City, 2002
Haiti, Brave New World: American Theatre Responds to 9/11, TownHall Theatre, New York City, 2002
Counselor to the king, The Persians, National Actors Theatre, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, New York City, 2003
Member of ensemble, Highway Ulysses, American Repertory Theatre Company, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, 2003
Appeared in Jocasta, Voice and Vision Company, New York City; appeared in New York City productions of The 52nd Street Project, Playboy of the West Indies, and Rent; appeared in regional productions of The Hostage, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, and Randy Newman's Faust; also appeared in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World and St. Joan of the Stockyards.
Films :
Archibald Smith, `` 37`` Regner Grasten Film Production 2016
Bill, Halloween Night (also known as The Damning, DeathMask, and Hack-o-Lantern), Atlantic Video, 1990
Tow truck driver, Hackers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1995
First DOE technician, The Peacemaker, DreamWorks, 1997
Justice guard, Conspiracy Theory, Warner Bros., 1997
Black People Hate Me and They Hate My Glasses (short film), 2000
Also appeared in George: A True Story and Stonewall.
Television appearances
Mel, "Yes, We Have NO Cannolis," NYPD Blue, ABC, 1996
Reggie Dobbs, "Entrapment," Law & Order, NBC, 1997
Detective Jackson, "No Secrets," Trinity, NBC, 1998
Floyd, "The Wedding," Cosby, CBS, 1999
Reinhardt, "Medium Rare," Oz, HBO, 2001
Brother Mouzone, The Wire, HBO, 2003-2004
Nigel Saladu, Flight of the Conchords, HBO, 2009
Detective Maynard Gilbough, True Detective, HBO, 2014
Travers, Person of Interest, CBS, 2014
Sid Bunderslaw, Gotham, FOX, 2015
Walt Henderson, Show Me a Hero, HBO, 2015
Also appeared in As the World Turns, CBS; Comic Strip Live, Fox; One Life to Live, ABC; and Queens Supreme, CBS.
Autre :
Voice, The West (miniseries), PBS, 1996
Voice of Isaac, Thomas Jefferson (special), PBS, 1997
