Theatre Belcher appeared
Off-Broadway in
Romeo and Juliet at
Classic Stage Company in 2013. In 2016 he 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. In 2019 Belcher played Rashad in
MCC's off-Broadway production of
The Light, for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play. In 2020, Belcher made his Broadway debut as Private Louis Henson (a role originated by
Samuel L. Jackson off-Broadway) in the Broadway premiere of
A Soldier's Play at the
Roundabout Theatre Company. He made history as Happy Loman in the 2022-2023 Broadway production of
Death of a Salesman, featuring the first African-American Loman family on Broadway alongside
Wendell Pierce,
Sharon D. Clarke,
Khris Davis and
André De Shields.
Film and television Belcher made his film debut in John Sayles' 2013 independent film
Go for Sisters, playing
Lisa Gay Hamilton's son Rodney. In 2015 he appeared in
David Simon's HBO mini-series
Show Me a Hero as
LaTanya Richardson Jackson's son Dwayne Meeks, directed by
Paul Haggis. Belcher had his first experience as a series regular as Samuel Diggs in two seasons of
PBS's
Ridley Scott-produced Civil War drama
Mercy Street. His character, Samuel, is a free man who works as a laborer, but harbors secret knowledge and ability in medicine. In 2018 he was cast as Anthony Carter in
Fox's drama
The Passage, based on
Justin Cronin's novel by the same name. Belcher worked with
David Simon again, in
HBO's 2022 limited series
We Own This City, playing real-life BPD veteran and Gun Trace Task Force officer Momodu Gondo. In 2022, Belcher also joined the cast of
Netflix's
live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga
One Piece as Arlong. In 2024 he played a leading role as police officer Michael Ledroit in the Netflix drama miniseries
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