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Mahershala Ali
Oakland, California, USA
Mahershala Ali (/məˈhɜːrʃələ/ mə-HUR-shə-lə; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore on February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy…
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Mahershala Ali (/məˈhɜːrʃələ/ mə-HUR-shə-lə; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore on February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked him among the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century. After pursuing an MFA degree from New York University, Ali began his career as a regular on television series Crossing Jordan (2001–02) and Threat Matrix (2003–04), before his breakthrough role as Richard Tyler in the science fiction series The 4400 (2004–07). His first major film role was in the David Fincher-directed fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). He gained wider attention for supporting roles in the final two films of the original The Hunger Games film series and in House of Cards, for which he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances as a drug dealer in the drama Moonlight (2016) and as Don Shirley in the comedy-drama Green Book (2018). He is the first Black actor to win two Academy Awards in the same category and the second Black actor to win multiple acting Oscars. Ali won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for executive producing We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020). In 2019, he played a troubled police officer in the third season of the HBO anthology crime series True Detective, and in 2020, he starred in the second season of the Hulu comedy-drama series Ramy. He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for both performances. Ali has also played Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes in the first season of the Netflix series Luke Cage (2016) and voiced Aaron Davis in the animated films Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mahershala Ali, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
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2027
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Movie Uncle Aaron (voice)
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2026
Wildwood
Movie Brenden (voice)
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2026
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Movie Latif
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2025
Task
TV show Eddie Barnes
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2025
Jurassic World Rebirth
Movie Duncan Kincaid
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2023
Leave the World Behind
Movie G.H. Scott
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2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Movie Uncle Aaron (voice)
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2023
Chimp Empire
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2023
Stand
Movie Self - Actor
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2021
Swan Song
Movie Cameron Turner
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2021
Eternals
Movie Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
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2021
INVINCIBLE
TV show Titan (voice)
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2021
Amend: The Fight for America
TV show Self
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2020
Between the World and Me
Movie
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2020
A World of Calm
TV show Narrator
More credits
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2020
We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Waves
Movie Thanks
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2019
Ramy
TV show Sheikh Ali Malik
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2019
Alita: Battle Angel
Movie Vector
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2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Movie Uncle Aaron (voice)
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2018
Green Book
Movie Dr. Don Shirley
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2017
Adnis
Movie Adnis
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2017
Room 104
TV show Franco
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2017
Roxanne Roxanne
Movie Cross
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2016
Hidden Figures
Movie Jim Johnson
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2016
Moonlight
Movie Juan
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2016
Marvel's Luke Cage
TV show Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes
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2016
Kicks
Movie Marlon
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2016
Free State of Jones
Movie Moses Washington
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2016
Gubagude Ko
Movie Ochoro
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2016
Race for the White House
TV show Narrator
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2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Movie Boggs
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Movie Self - Boggs
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Movie Boggs
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2014
Supremacy
Movie Deputy Rivers
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2014
True Detective
TV show Wayne Hays
