He also had a recurring role as Locke in series Halo: Nightfall in 2014. Since 2010 he has had a recurring role of Lemond Bishop in the TV series The Good Wife. He has also starred in the movies Million Dollar Baby, Brooklyn Lobster, And Then Came Love, Salt Men in Black 3, Zero Dark Thirty, and America Is Still the Place. Colter has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Royal Pains, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, and American Horror Story: Coven. He is scheduled to star as Luke Cage in Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones.