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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Oakland, California, USA, 1974-02-16

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2003	Taste the Revolution	Mac Laslow	10
2	2008	Umi's Heart	Ezra	10
3	2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Tizzy Weathers	76
4	2009	Crossing Over	Detective Strickland	61
5	2009	The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button	Self	69
6	2010	Predators	Mombasa	63
7	2010	The Wronged Man	Calvin Willis	60
8	2010	Predators: The Chosen	Mombasa	59
9	2010	Predators: Moments of Extraction	Mombasa (Voice)	40
10	2013	The Place Beyond the Pines	Kofi Kancam	70
11	2013	Go for Sisters	Dez	60
12	2014	Supremacy	Deputy Rivers	57
13	2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	Boggs	68
14	2015	The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1	Self (Boggs)	72
15	2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	Boggs	69
16	2016	Gubagude Ko	Ochoro	10
17	2016	Free State of Jones	Moses Washington	68
18	2016	Kicks	Marlon	68
19	2016	Moonlight	Juan	74
20	2016	Hidden Figures	Jim Johnson	81
21	2017	Roxanne Roxanne	Cross	60
22	2017	Adnis	Adnis	0
23	2018	Green Book	Dr. Don Shirley	82
24	2018	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse	Uncle Aaron (voice)	84
25	2019	Alita: Battle Angel	Vector	72
26	2020	Between the World and Me		79
27	2021	Eternals	Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)	68
28	2021	Swan Song	Cameron Turner	71
29	2023	Stand	Self - Actor	80
30	2023	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	Uncle Aaron (voice)	83
31	2023	Leave the World Behind	G.H. Scott	64
32	2025	Jurassic World Rebirth	Duncan Kincaid	73
33	2027	Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse	Uncle Aaron (voice)	0
34		Blade	Eric Brooks / Blade	0
35		Wildwood	Brenden (voice)	0
36		77 Blackout		0
37		The Personal History of Rachel DuPree	Isaac Dupree	0
38		All Signs of Death	Gabe	0
39		Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother		0
40	2025	Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	The Oscars	Self - Presenter	71
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
4	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
5	1997	The View	Self	45
6	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Mark Foster	79
7	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Tombs' Security Guard	76
8	2001	Crossing Jordan	Trey Sanders	72
9	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
10	2003	Threat Matrix	Jelani Harper	60
11	2004	The 4400	Richard Tyler	72
12	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
13	2008	Stand Up to Cancer	Self	74
14	2009	Lie to Me	Detective Hughes	79
15	2011	Alphas	Nathan Clay	68
16	2012	Alcatraz	Clarence Montgomery	64
17	2013	House of Cards	Remy Danton	80
18	2014	True Detective	Wayne Hays	83
19	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
20	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
21	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
22	2016	Race for the White House	Narrator	78
23	2016	Marvel's Luke Cage	Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes	69
24	2017	Room 104	Franco	57
25	2019	Ramy	Sheikh Ali Malik	73
26	2020	A World of Calm	Narrator	68
27	2021	Amend: The Fight for America	Self	71
28	2021	INVINCIBLE	Titan (voice)	86
29	2023	Chimp Empire	Self - Narrator (voice)	84
30		The Plot	Jake	0
31		Ali Zafar igo	From	0

Mahershala Ali

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