McKinley Belcher III (born March 23, 1984) is an American actor, known
for his starring role as Samuel Diggs in the PBS television series
Mercy Street, Anthony Carter in the Fox genre drama The Passage, and
as Agent Trevor Evans in Netflix crime thriller Ozark.Belcher was born
in Atlanta, Georgia at Grady Memorial Hospital on March 23, 1984, the
first son of McKinley Belcher Jr. and Pamela McGhee Belcher. The
family later moved to Powder Springs, where he attended elementary and
middle school. Belcher graduated from Campbell High School in Smyrna,
Georgia in 2002, where he was in the International Baccalaureate
program and ran track and cross country. He went to Belmont University
in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated in 2006 with a B.A. in
Communication Studies and Political Science. At Belmont he competed on
the Speech and Debate Team, winning awards as a debater and individual
speaker. He subsequently went to USC School of Dramatic Arts in Los
Angeles, where he won the Ava Greenwald Memorial Award and graduated
in 2010 with an MFA in Acting.Belcher appeared Off-Broadway in Romeo
and Juliet at Classic Stage Company in 2013 and in 2016 won a Drama
Desk Award for his performance as amateur boxer Fish in the ensemble
of Marco Ramirez's The Royale at Lincoln Center, directed by Rachel
Chavkin. He also appeared as Sam in Darko Tresnjak's 2015 world
premiere production of Rear Window at Hartford Stage, alongside Kevin
Bacon. Belcher played the dual roles of Teddy and Nicholas in the
world premiere of Ken Urban's A Guide for the Homesick at the
Huntington Theatre Company in 2017, winning both an Elliot Norton
Award for Outstanding Actor and an IRNE Award for Best Actor.
for his starring role as Samuel Diggs in the PBS television series
Mercy Street, Anthony Carter in the Fox genre drama The Passage, and
as Agent Trevor Evans in Netflix crime thriller Ozark.Belcher was born
in Atlanta, Georgia at Grady Memorial Hospital on March 23, 1984, the
first son of McKinley Belcher Jr. and Pamela McGhee Belcher. The
family later moved to Powder Springs, where he attended elementary and
middle school. Belcher graduated from Campbell High School in Smyrna,
Georgia in 2002, where he was in the International Baccalaureate
program and ran track and cross country. He went to Belmont University
in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated in 2006 with a B.A. in
Communication Studies and Political Science. At Belmont he competed on
the Speech and Debate Team, winning awards as a debater and individual
speaker. He subsequently went to USC School of Dramatic Arts in Los
Angeles, where he won the Ava Greenwald Memorial Award and graduated
in 2010 with an MFA in Acting.Belcher appeared Off-Broadway in Romeo
and Juliet at Classic Stage Company in 2013 and in 2016 won a Drama
Desk Award for his performance as amateur boxer Fish in the ensemble
of Marco Ramirez's The Royale at Lincoln Center, directed by Rachel
Chavkin. He also appeared as Sam in Darko Tresnjak's 2015 world
premiere production of Rear Window at Hartford Stage, alongside Kevin
Bacon. Belcher played the dual roles of Teddy and Nicholas in the
world premiere of Ken Urban's A Guide for the Homesick at the
Huntington Theatre Company in 2017, winning both an Elliot Norton
Award for Outstanding Actor and an IRNE Award for Best Actor.
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