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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
Bruce Cortez
for Bruce Cortez in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (TV Show Spin-Off)
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Nì'awtu (Tom Blyth) and his rebellious older sister Aha'ri (Jessica Rothe) grew up in a fancy residential school for Na'vi children called The Ambassador Program the siblings always had each other's back and have always dreamt of building a better world but there's just one problem: they're not allowed to leave the campus and for some dumb reason because John Mercer (Christian Slater), the director of the program refuses to let them outside. But just when they were about to lose all hope until their kind teacher Alma Cortez (Lupita Nyong'o) saves the students and puts them all into cryosleep until they can escape, after waking up fifteen years later, he and his classmates now find themselves in the wreckage of their now abandoned school, and Sol'ek (Aaron Pierre) informs them that they were all once members of the Sarentu clan who he thought they were gone and wiped out for decades Nì'awtu manages to escape into the outside world for the first time ever in his life but only to quickly discover that Mercer was still up to his old tricks. With the help from his friends Ri'nela Teylan and Nor, Nì'awtu's journey will lead him closer to the answers he seeks: how to fit into a world where he feels out of place, if he'll ever see his parents again, and if he can ever find out who he was destined to be.
