Mahershala Ali

Acting

Mahershala Ali

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Feb 16, 1974 (51 years old)

Mahershala Ali

Known For

Ted Lasso
Movie 2027

Ted Lasso

An unlikely coach arrives in England to lead a struggling...

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Movie 2027

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse

Miles Morales is now a fugitive on the run from...

Jurassic World Rebirth
Movie 2025

Jurassic World Rebirth

Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert...

Leave the World Behind
2h 22m
Movie 2023

Leave the World Behind

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2h 20m
Movie 2023

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man...

Chimp Empire
TV Show 2023

Chimp Empire

A vast community of chimpanzees thrives in a forest in...

Stand
1h 47m
Movie 2023

Stand

Raw and unflinching examination of the courageous life of basketball...

Swan Song
1h 52m
Movie 2021

Swan Song

In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a...

Eternals
2h 36m
Movie 2021

Eternals

The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have...

Between the World and Me
1h 25m
Movie 2020

Between the World and Me

Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and...

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mahershala Ali, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.