Mahershala Ali
Date of birth: 1974-02-16
Place of birth: Oakland, California, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Mahershala Karim-Ali , 마허샬라 알리, Махершала Али, Hershal Gilmore, Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore, Магершала Алі, マハーシャラルハズバズ・アリ, ماهرشالا علی, مهرشالا علی
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.
Movie Credits
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008-12-25
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Eternals
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Leave the World Behind
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A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out th
Predators
2010-07-07
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The Wronged Man
2010-10-07
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
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Miles Morales is now a fugitive on the run from every other Spider in the multiverse, and Gwen and h
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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The Place Beyond the Pines
2013-03-20
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014-11-19
After surviving the Quarter Quell, Katniss finds herself in the hidden stronghold of District 13, wh
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015-11-18
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Go for Sisters
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Blade
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Wildwood
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Stand
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Raw and unflinching examination of the courageous life of basketball star and social justice activis
Supremacy
2014-06-12
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Free State of Jones
2016-06-24
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77 Blackout
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Kicks
2016-09-09
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Jurassic World Rebirth
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Hidden Figures
2016-12-10
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-Ameri
Moonlight
2016-10-21
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three definin
Alita: Battle Angel
2019-01-31
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is tak
Gubagude Ko
2016-06-16
A man witnesses a young woman's rape and experiences the guilt of his inaction.
Roxanne Roxanne
2017-01-22
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Crossing Over
2009-02-10
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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
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Green Book
2018-11-16
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018-12-06
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles
All Signs of Death
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Umi's Heart
2008-11-30
The story of two brothers and their attempts to broach the difficult subject of religious conversion
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015-03-06
Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. An impressively in depth
Taste the Revolution
2003-03-28
Two aspiring filmmakers chronicle the story of a charismatic revolutionary, Mac Laslow, and the grou
Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010-10-19
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Swan Song
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In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimen
Between the World and Me
2020-11-21
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apo
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009-05-05
A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Vir
Adnis
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
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Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
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A behind-the-scenes look with the cast and crew, featuring thrilling locations, deadly new dinosaurs
Predators: The Chosen
2010-01-01
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