Michael Potts is an accomplished actor of stage and screen who most recently starred as the heartwarming “Mr. Hawkins” in the Tony® nominated musical The Prom. This December, he’ll star alongside Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in the Netflix film adaptation of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Potts is widely recognized for his role as the well-mannered yet feared assassin, “Brother Mouzone” on HBO’s critically acclaimed series “The Wire” alongside Idris Elba and Dominic West and as “Detective Maynard Gilbough” int he Emmy® Award winning HBO drama “True Detective,” opposite Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
Additionally, Potts has held recurring roles on multiple primetime television shows such as, “Bored to Death”, “Damages”, “Nurse Jackie”, “Flight of The Conchords”, “Oz” and “Law & Order”. In film, he has held his own alongside Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts in CONSPIRACY THEORY and in THE PEACEMAKER with George Clooney and Nicole Kidman.
He is an active supporter and contributor of the 52nd Street Project, dedicated to the creation and production of new plays for, and often by, kids between the ages of 9-18 that reside in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in New York City. The organization achieves this goal through a series of unique mentoring programs that match kids with professional theater artists. Potts was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Wisacky, South Carolina.
| Credit Type | Production | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Actor | Stories About the Old Days | 2020-21 Season |