McKinley Belcher III pays Behind the Awards a visit before taking his final bow in A Guide for the Homesick.  He also discuses his Netflix series Eric co-starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Death of a Salesman and how he detoured into a career of acting.

Also in this episode - Jean Smart’s 2025 Golden Globe win for Hacks.  A review of Pulitzer Prize winning Play English by Sanaz Toossi at The Roundabout Theater.

Broadway: Happy Loman in Death of a Salesman and Private Louis Henson in A Soldier’s Play at Roundabout Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: The Light (MCC), for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, The Royale (Lincoln Center- Drama Desk Award), and Romeo & Juliet  (Classic Stage Company). Film: Alan Brown’s next indie Other People’s Bodies, Eraser:Reborn (Max), Marriage Story (Netflix), The Art of Racing in the Rain (Fox 2000), Trial By Fire, Mapplethorpe, and auteur John Sayles’s indie Go For Sisters. TV: Netflix’s upcoming limited series Zero Day, opposite Robert De Niro and Jesse Plemons, Netflix’s recent limited series Eric opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, Ozark, and it’s manga-anime adaptation One Piece, David Simon’s Show Me a Hero and We Own This City (HBO), The Good Lord Bird (Showtime), The Passage (Fox), Mercy Street (PBS), Found (NBC), Power (Starz), among others. McKinley is a proud graduate of Belmont University (BA) and USC School of Dramatic Arts (MFA).

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