Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Age: 39

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (/ˈjɑːhiə/; born July 15, 1986) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Black Manta in the superhero films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Morpheus / Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). For his portrayal of Cal Abar / Doctor Manhattan in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He also starred in episodes of The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Black Mirror (2019). He made his Broadway debut in the Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play nomination. He portrays the Marvel Comics character Simon Williams / Wonder Man in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Black Manta

for Black Manta in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2022 Film)

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2022 Film)

After the events of Zack Snyder's Justice League and Aquaman, Arthur Curry son of Queen Atlanna and Tom Curry; has finally become a king that will unite the Seven Kingdoms of Atlantis along with the Surface World, but that's not all, Black Manta is back for vengeance and he's kind of going to ruin everything that King Arthur stands for. Arthur and Mera also discover an adolescent boy from New Mexico named Jackson Hyde who is Half-Human Half-Atlantean like Arthur and he can manipulate the structure and energy of the water just like Mera, but it is revealed that Jackson is the biological son of Black Manta.

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