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Name
Mahershala Ali

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1974-02-16 (52 years old)

Place of Birth
Oakland, California, USA

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).

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Tizzy Weathers
2021 Eternals as Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
2023 Leave the World Behind as G.H. Scott
2010 Predators as Mombasa
2010 The Wronged Man as Calvin Willis
2027 Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2013 The Place Beyond the Pines as Kofi Kancam
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Boggs
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Boggs
2013 Go for Sisters as Dez
2026 Wildwood as Brenden (voice)
2023 Stand as Self - Actor
2014 Supremacy as Deputy Rivers
2016 Free State of Jones as Moses Washington
Soon 77 Blackout
2016 Kicks as Marlon
2025 Jurassic World Rebirth as Duncan Kincaid
2016 Hidden Figures as Jim Johnson
2016 Moonlight as Juan
2019 Alita: Battle Angel as Vector
2016 Gubagude Ko as Ochoro
2017 Roxanne Roxanne as Cross
2009 Crossing Over as Detective Strickland
Soon The Personal History of Rachel DuPree as Isaac Dupree
2018 Green Book as Dr. Don Shirley
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as Uncle Aaron (voice)
Soon All Signs of Death as Gabe
2008 Umi's Heart as Ezra
2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Boggs
2003 Taste the Revolution as Mac Laslow
2010 Predators: Moments of Extraction as Mombasa (voice)
2021 Swan Song as Cameron Turner
2020 Between the World and Me
2009 The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button as Self
2026 Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother as Latif
2025 Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era as Self
2010 Predators: The Chosen
Soon Driver
Soon Untitled Jurassic World Rebirth Sequel as Duncan Kincaid

2004 The 4400 ( 33 episodes ) as Richard Tyler
2001 Crossing Jordan ( 23 episodes ) as Trey Sanders
2017 Room 104 ( 1 episode ) as Franco
1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Mark Foster
2011 Alphas ( 12 episodes ) as Nathan Clay
2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( 1 episode ) as Tombs' Security Guard
2021 INVINCIBLE ( 2 episodes ) as Titan (voice)
2023 Chimp Empire ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 Threat Matrix ( 16 episodes ) as Jelani Harper
2013 House of Cards ( 45 episodes ) as Remy Danton
2014 True Detective ( 8 episodes ) as Wayne Hays
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2009 Lie to Me ( 1 episode ) as Detective Hughes
2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
2008 Stand Up to Cancer ( 1 episode ) as Self
2012 Alcatraz ( 1 episode ) as Clarence Montgomery
1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
2021 Amend: The Fight for America ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1953 The Oscars ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2016 Race for the White House ( 6 episodes ) as Narrator
2019 Ramy ( 6 episodes ) as Sheikh Ali Malik
2016 Marvel's Luke Cage ( 6 episodes ) as Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes
2020 A World of Calm ( 1 episode ) as Narrator
1973 The American Film Institute Salute to ... ( 1 episode ) as Self
2025 Task ( 0 episode ) as Eddie Barnes
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest

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