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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.
Mahershala Ali
Adrian Mathews
for Adrian Mathews in 520: The Cyber Cop
Suggested by mighty_studios
Story Synopsis: Forced out of her own company by her former protégé, Dr. Sally Stryker saves Daniel Jackson’s life, a longtime friend who would have been six feet under if it wasn’t for the help of Sally, who turned him into "520", a cyborg with the abilities of cryokinesis. Now that he's been trained by Sally and her best friend Bonnie Moana, Daniel must now use his newfound skills and embrace his inner hero to prevent former protégé Arthur Crime from perfecting Sally’s old technology and selling it to the public, which could cause massive chaos for the world. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Origin: Set in 1998 in Miami, Florida, Daniel Jackson is a Miami police officer who suffered a terrible accident that led him to evolve in ways he could have never foreseen. While in a lab, he was helping his mentor, Sally Stryker, with a secret experiment involving an Inter-Dimensional Portal. However, everything went horribly wrong this time, as Daniel was caught in an explosion after saving his mentor's life. Now injured, Daniel was extremely close to death. But a guilt-ridden Sally refused to let her friend die, so she came up with a plan so crazy, it might just work. With a miracle, she was able to save Daniel’s life using a blueprint for "Project 520", an idea to resurrect a human being with cybernetic enhancements. In the end, the result was a success, as Daniel Jackson became the cryokinetic cyborg - "520".
