- Born
- Birth nameMike Randal Colter
- Height1.91 m
- Mike was born to Mr. & Mrs. Eddie Lee Colter Sr. He attended Benedict College where he was mentored and groomed by his drama professor Scott Blanks. After transferring to the University of South Carolina where he attained a B.A. degree in theater, Mike went on to study at Mason Gross School of the Arts under renowned acting teachers William Esper and Maggie Flanigan. Upon receiving his MFA degree, Mike moved to L.A. where parts did not come easy, but after a few months he was able to grab a co-star on Spin City with Charlie Sheen followed by guest stars on E.R. and The Parkers with Mo'Nique. Mike then moved back to NYC to allow for the possibility of working in the theater as well, but as luck would have it Hollywood came calling again. He landed a role in 2005 Best Picture winner Million Dollar Baby opposite Clint Eastwood, Hillary Swank and Morgan Freeman. He got the role without ever meeting Clint in person prior to the first day of shooting. The following year he received exceptional reviews for his turn as CJ Memphis, a guitar-playing blues singer in The 2005 revival of the Pulitzer prize winning "A Soldier's Play". The play had been a big off-Broadway success and was made into a movie starring Denzel Washington and many of Hollywood's up-and-coming African-American actors in 1984. Mike kept his nose to the grindstone with a role in Adam Bock's new play "Drunken City" that world premiered at Playwrights Horizon in 2008. Mike splits his time between New York and L.A. working in film and television.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseIva Colter(2002 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenNaiella Colter
- ParentsEddie Lee Colter Sr.Freddie Marion Colter (Mitchell)
- Deep voice
- Second cousin of Viola Davis. His paternal grandmother and her maternal grandfather were siblings.
- His brother is a secret service agent.
- Gained 30lbs by the time Marvel's Luke Cage began filming.
- Received his M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 2001 with classmate Andrea Anders.
- Graduated from Calhoun County High School where he was voted most ambitious in his Senior Class.
- As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.
- As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.
- As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.
- Ridley Scott was part of the production team on 'The Good Wife.' I auditioned on my iPhone, and it moved very quickly after that, as they thought I was right for the role, and pretty soon I was filming in Iceland for two months.
- I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe.
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