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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.
Arthur’s the Prince of Atlantis but he has no interest in his heritage and just wants a normal life in his Lighthouse with his dad. That changes when Black Manta and his crew steal an Atlantean artefact and kill Arthur’s dad escaping, Arthur’s recruited by Mera & Vulko to track Manta and get the Artefact. As Arthur’s the rightfull heir to the throne his younger brother Orm doesn’t want Arthur anywhere near Atlantis so Mera, Vulko and Kaldur’ahm must train Arthur in secret. Mera is able to track down the Artefact so her, Arthur and Kaldur’ahm go to fight Manta, we discover the Artefact is a staff that commands a species called the Trench which Manta summons to defeat the heroes. Arthur & Manta fight, Kaldur’ahm fights and defeats The Fisherman & Mera holds off the Trench to buy them time however Kaldur’ahm then reveals himself as Mantas son and they both escape. Orm discovers Arthur & Mera and they get into a fight but then they all agree to save Atlantis they must work together. The the trio track down Manta and Arthur & Orm fight Manta & Kaldur whilst Mera fights the Trench and Mantas men. Kaldur’ahm realises his father is wrong and turns on him and they return the staff. Arthur, Orm and Atlanna have a meeting and Arthur says he wants Orm to be the next king whilst he works on making the surface world ready to accept Atlanteans. Arthur & Mera both move into the lighthouse and start a relationship, back in Atlantis Orm stabs his mother in the heart and smiles.
