Mahershala Ali
Mahershala Ali
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
as Eric Brooks / Blade
as Brenden (voice)
as Isaac Dupree
as Gabe
as Jake
as Duncan Kincaid
as G.H. Scott
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
as Self - Actor
as Narrator (voice)
as Cameron Turner
as Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
as Titan (voice)
as Self
as Narrator
as Vector
as Sheikh Ali Malik
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
as Dr. Don Shirley
as Cross
as Franco
as Jim Johnson
as Juan
as The Minister
as Marlon
as Moses Washington
as Ochoro
as Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes
as Narrator
as Deputy Rivers
as Self
as Wayne Hays
as Dez
as Kofi Kancam
as Remy Danton
as Clarence Montgomery
as Nathan Clay
as Mombasa
as Mombasa (Voice)
as Calvin Willis
as Mombasa
as Detective Strickland
as Detective Hughes
as Tizzy Weathers
as Ezra
as Self
as Self
as Richard Tyler
as Mac Laslow
as Jelani Harper
as Self
as Trey Sanders
as Tombs' Security Guard
as Mark Foster
as Self
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self - Best Supporting Actor winner
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
Crew
as Thanks