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.
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
- 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
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: 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.
