Mahershala Ali
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.
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Jurassic World Rebirth
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Eternals
Alita: Battle Angel
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Place Beyond the Pines
Predators
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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
Wildwood
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
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Task
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Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
as Self
Leave the World Behind
as G.H. Scott
Chimp Empire
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Stand
as Self - Actor
Swan Song
as Cameron Turner
INVINCIBLE
as Titan (voice)
Amend: The Fight for America
as Self
Between the World and Me
as Unknown
A World of Calm
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Ramy
as Sheikh Ali Malik
Green Book
as Dr. Don Shirley
Room 104
as Franco
Roxanne Roxanne
as Cross
Hidden Figures
as Jim Johnson
Moonlight
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Marvel's Luke Cage
as Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes
Kicks
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Free State of Jones
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Race for the White House
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Boggs
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
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Supremacy
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True Detective
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Go for Sisters
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House of Cards
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Alcatraz
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Alphas
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Predators: Moments of Extraction
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The Wronged Man
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Predators: The Chosen
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The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
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Crossing Over
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Lie to Me
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Umi's Heart
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Stand Up to Cancer
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The Graham Norton Show
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The 4400
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Threat Matrix
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Taste the Revolution
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Crossing Jordan
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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The View
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The Daily Show
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The American Film Institute Salute to ...
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The Oscars
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The Oscars
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