Mahershala Ali 1974 51
Mahershala Ali 1974 51
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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2027 Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2025 Jurassic World Rebirth as Duncan Kincaid
2025 77 Blackout
2025 Wildwood as Brenden (voice)
2025 Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
2025 Blade as Eric Brooks / Blade
2025 All Signs of Death as Gabe
2025 The Personal History of Rachel DuPree as Isaac Dupree
2023 Leave the World Behind as G.H. Scott
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2023 Stand as Self - Actor
2021 Swan Song as Cameron Turner Producer
2021 Eternals as Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
2020 We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest Executive Producer
2019 Waves Thanks
2019 Alita: Battle Angel as Vector
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2018 Green Book as Dr. Don Shirley
2017 Adnis as Adnis
2017 Roxanne Roxanne as Cross
2016 Hidden Figures as Jim Johnson
2016 Moonlight as Juan
2016 Kicks as Marlon
2016 Free State of Jones as Moses Washington
2016 Gubagude Ko as Ochoro
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Boggs
2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self (Boggs)
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Boggs
2014 Supremacy as Deputy Rivers
2013 Go for Sisters as Dez
2013 The Place Beyond the Pines as Kofi Kancam
2010 Predators: The Chosen as Mombasa
2010 Predators: Moments of Extraction as Mombasa (Voice)
2010 The Wronged Man as Calvin Willis
2010 Predators as Mombasa
2009 The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button as Self
2009 Crossing Over as Detective Strickland
2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Tizzy Weathers
2008 Umi's Heart as Ezra
2003 Taste the Revolution as Mac Laslow Executive Producer