
Mahershala Ali
Acting
🎂 1974-02-16
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.
Cast credits(71)

Duncan Kincaid
2025

Mark Foster
1999

Tombs' Security Guard
2000

Self
1996

Wayne Hays
2014

Self
2007

Titan (voice)
2021

Self
2015

Uncle Aaron (voice)
2023

Trey Sanders
2001

Remy Danton
2013

Uncle Aaron (voice)
2018

Detective Hughes
2009

Self
2014

Self
1997

Boggs
2014

Self
2015

Jim Johnson
2016

Tizzy Weathers
2008

Self
2003

Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
2021

Dr. Don Shirley
2018

Vector
2019

Mombasa
2010

Richard Tyler
2004

Self - Presenter
1953

Self
1953

Boggs
2015

Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes
2016

Franco
2017

G.H. Scott
2023

Juan
2016

Clarence Montgomery
2012

Self
2025

Self
2021

Nathan Clay
2011

Kofi Kancam
2013

Sheikh Ali Malik
2019

Uncle Aaron (voice)
2027

Jelani Harper
2003

Cameron Turner
2021

Moses Washington
2016

Self
1973

Narrator
2020

Detective Strickland
2009

Eric Brooks / Blade

Self - Boggs
2015

Self
2008

Self - Narrator (voice)
2023

Marlon
2016

Cross
2017

Self
2009

Mombasa (voice)
2010

Narrator
2016

Calvin Willis
2010

2020

Deputy Rivers
2014

Dez
2013
Isaac Dupree

Self - Actor
2023
Jake
Gabe

Mac Laslow
2003

From

Brenden (voice)

Ezra
2008

Adnis
2017
Ochoro
2016