Personal Info
Birth date
1962-09-21 (62 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
-Michael Potts
Biography
Michael Potts, born January 26, 1962, in Brooklyn, NY, is a versatile American actor known for his captivating performances across stage and screen. A Juilliard alum, he soared in Broadway, earning acclaim for "The Book of Mormon." His portrayal of Brother Mouzone in HBO's "The Wire" showcased his depth. Potts' talent spans television ("True Detective," "The Good Fight") and film ("The Promised Land"), embodying diverse characters with magnetic authenticity. With each role, he leaves an indelible mark, captivating audiences with his nuanced portrayals and solidifying his place as a revered actor in the industry.Filmography
Law & Order
7.402
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.9
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.The Blacklist
7.641
Overview:
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.Blue Bloods
7.789
Overview:
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief.Person of Interest
8.076
Overview:
John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars.True Detective
8.3
Overview:
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.Gotham
7.592
Overview:
Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?FBI
7.9
Overview:
The New York office of the FBI brings to bear all their talents, intellect and technical expertise on major cases in order to keep their city and the country safe.The Wire
8.601
Overview:
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.Elementary
7.597
Overview:
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.White Collar
8.2
Overview:
In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive white-collar criminals.The Good Fight
7.6
Overview:
Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.Taken
6.514
Overview:
The origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.Prodigal Son
8.109
Overview:
The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD.Madam Secretary
6.976
Overview:
After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The newly appointed Secretary of State is tough, fair, and smart, driving international diplomacy, wrangling office politics, and circumventing protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home.Bull
7.054
Overview:
Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.The Irrational
6.677
Overview:
Alec Mercer is a world-renowned professor of behavioral psychology with a unique insight into human nature who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, corporations and law enforcement. However, he meets his match in a female domestic terror suspect who turns his world upside down.Flight of the Conchords
7.929
Overview:
The trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band who have moved from New Zealand to New York in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose "other" job is at the New Zealand Consulate), one fan (a married obsessive) and one friend (who owns the local pawn shop) -- but not much else.BrainDead
7.239
Overview:
A young fresh-faced Hill staffer gets her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers.Allegiance
6.9
Overview:
Alex O'Connor, a young idealistic CIA analyst specializing in Russian affairs, learns a shocking secret and his close-knit, affluent family is about to be split apart when it's revealed that his parents, Mark and Katya, are covert Russian spies deactivated decades ago. But today the Kremlin has re-enlisted them into service as they plan a terrorist operation inside the U.S. border that will bring America to its knees.Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector
7.6
Overview:
Former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer forced him out of the field. When Amelia Sachs, an intuitive young officer who has a gift for profiling, finds herself hot on the killer's trail, Rhyme finds a partner for this new game of cat and mouse.The First Lady
6.3
Overview:
A revelatory reframing of American leadership through the lens of the First Ladies. Exploring everything from their journeys to Washington, family life, and world-changing political contributions, the impact of the White House's women is no longer hidden from view.God Friended Me
7.8
Overview:
A self-proclaimed "pesky atheist" is encouraged to help strangers by someone claiming to be God who friends him on Facebook.Hackers
6.38
Overview:
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.East New York
7.308
Overview:
Regina Haywood is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, a working-class neighborhood at the edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.Highest 2 Lowest
NYR
Overview:
When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.The Peacemaker
6
Overview:
When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.Conspiracy Theory
6.61
Overview:
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.Acting
TBANemesis (2 Episodes) as James Sealey
TBAOut of Order! as Jerry
2025Highest 2 Lowest as Patrick Bethea
2024The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision as Self
2024The Piano Lesson as Wining Boy
2023Rustin as Cleve Robinson
2023The Irrational (1 Episode) as Nnamdi Adesina
2023Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III as Lord Stanley
2022East New York (4 Episodes) as Goody Gaines
2022Rounding as Dr. Emil Harrison
2022The First Lady (5 Episodes) as Fraser Robinson
2022Measure of Revenge as Detective Eaton
2021Cicada as Francis
2020Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen as Self
2020Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Slow Drag
2020Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector (1 Episode) as Dr. Arthur Wasden
2019Prodigal Son (2 Episodes) as Dr. Brandon Marsh
2018Here and Now as Ray
2018God Friended Me (1 Episode) as King Omari
2018FBI (1 Episode) as Agent Bruce Ellis
2017Taken (1 Episode) as Hanson
2017The Good Fight (1 Episode) as Bill Goate
201637 as Archibald Smith
2016Bull (1 Episode) as Judge Nolan
2016Let Me Make You a Martyr as Charon
2016BrainDead (1 Episode) as Dr. Daudier
2015Allegiance (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2014Gotham (3 Episodes) as Sid Bunderslaw
2014Madam Secretary (3 Episodes) as Senator Fred Reynolds
2014True Detective (8 Episodes) as Maynard Gilbough
2013The Blacklist (1 Episode) as Iniko
2012Elementary (1 Episode) as Doctor Peter Hanson
2011Person of Interest (2 Episodes) as Travers
2010Blue Bloods (1 Episode) as Thorton Mead
2009White Collar (1 Episode) as David
2007Flight of the Conchords (1 Episode) as Nigel Saladu
2002The Wire (7 Episodes) as Brother Mouzone
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (6 Episodes) as Cole Draper
1997The Peacemaker as DOE Haz-mat Tech #1
1997Conspiracy Theory as Justice Guard
1997Thomas Jefferson (0, 2 Episode) as Unknown, Isaac
1995Hackers as Tow Truck Driver
1990Law & Order (1, 1, 2, 1 Episode) as Reggie Dobbs, Lester Wilkes, Malcolm Young, Kenneth Lowell