1974-02-16 ( 51 years old ) in Oakland, California, USA
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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Movies
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027-06-02
Jurassic World Rebirth
2025-07-01
Leave the World Behind
2023-11-22
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023-05-31
Stand
2023-02-03
Swan Song
2021-12-17
Eternals
2021-11-03
Between the World and Me
2020-11-21
Alita: Battle Angel
2019-01-31
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018-12-06
Green Book
2018-11-16
Adnis
2017-08-03
Roxanne Roxanne
2017-01-22
Hidden Figures
2016-12-10
Moonlight
2016-10-21
Kicks
2016-09-09
Free State of Jones
2016-06-24
Gubagude Ko
2016-06-16
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015-11-18
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014-11-19
Supremacy
2014-06-12
Go for Sisters
2013-11-08
The Place Beyond the Pines
2013-03-20
Predators: The Chosen
2010-10-19
Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010-10-19
The Wronged Man
2010-10-07
Predators
2010-07-03
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009-05-05
Crossing Over
2009-02-10
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008-12-25
Umi's Heart
2008-11-30
Taste the Revolution
2003-03-28
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