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.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(Tizzy Weathers)
Eternals
(Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited))
Leave the World Behind
(G.H. Scott)
Predators
(Mombasa)
The Wronged Man
(Calvin Willis)
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
(Uncle Aaron (voice))
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
(Uncle Aaron (voice))
The Place Beyond the Pines
(Kofi Kancam)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
(Boggs)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
(Boggs)
Go for Sisters
(Dez)
Blade
(Eric Brooks / Blade)
Wildwood
(Brenden (voice))
Stand
(Self - Actor)
Supremacy
(Deputy Rivers)
Free State of Jones
(Moses Washington)
77 Blackout
Kicks
(Marlon)
Jurassic World Rebirth
(Duncan Kincaid)
Hidden Figures
(Jim Johnson)
Moonlight
(Juan)
The Realest Real
(The Minister)
Alita: Battle Angel
(Vector)
Gubagude Ko
(Ochoro)
Roxanne Roxanne
(Cross)
Crossing Over
(Detective Strickland)
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
(Isaac Dupree)
Green Book
(Dr. Don Shirley)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
(Uncle Aaron (voice))
All Signs of Death
(Gabe)
Umi's Heart
(Ezra)
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
(Self (Boggs))
Taste the Revolution
(Mac Laslow)
Predators: The Chosen
(Mombasa)
Predators: Moments of Extraction
(Mombasa (Voice))
Swan Song
(Cameron Turner)
Between the World and Me
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
(Self)
The 4400
(Richard Tyler)
Crossing Jordan
(Trey Sanders)
Room 104
(Franco)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
(Mark Foster)
Alphas
(Nathan Clay)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
(Tombs' Security Guard)
INVINCIBLE
(Titan (voice))
Chimp Empire
(Narrator (voice))
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(Self)
The Daily Show
(Self)
The Plot
(Jake)
Threat Matrix
(Jelani Harper)
House of Cards
(Remy Danton)
True Detective
(Wayne Hays)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
(Self)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
(Self)
Lie to Me
(Detective Hughes)
The Graham Norton Show
(Self)
The View
(Self)
Stand Up to Cancer
(Self)
Alcatraz
(Clarence Montgomery)
The Oscars
(Self - Presenter)
Amend: The Fight for America
(Self)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
The Oscars
(Self)
Race for the White House
(Narrator)
The Oscars
(Self - Best Supporting Actor winner)
Ramy
(Sheikh Ali Malik)
Marvel's Luke Cage
(Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes)
A World of Calm
(Narrator)
