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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

Eric 'Blade' Brooks
for Eric 'Blade' Brooks in Avengers: Infinity War [Read Synopsis]
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The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to half of all life. [Human Torch and The Thing joins Iron Man's Team, Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman cameos briefly] {IM Team: IRON MAN, Spidey, Dr Strange, Starlord, Drax, Mantis, NEBULA, HUMAN TORCH and The Thing. Survivors on Iron Man's Teams: Iron Man, Nebula and Human Torch} {CAP Team: CAP, BLACK WIDOW, Winter Soldier, Black Panther, Falcon, B. BANNER, She Hulk and A-BOMB, WAR MACHINE, QUICKSILVER, Scarlet Witch, Vision, and THOR. Survivors on Cap's teams: Cap, Black Widow, B. Banner, A-Bomb, War Machine, Quicksilver and Thor} Post Credit Scene: In the X Mansion, Logan (Wolverine) is resting in his dorm room, when Anna 'Rouge' Marie screams. Logan runs through the halls seeing dust flying around in each room. He makes it to Rouge's room and he sees her dissolve to dust with his own eyes. Logan drops to his knees in shock. A knock on the door leads Logan to open, revealing Deadpool as he says "It's Josh Brolin's fault, let's go get that sum b*tch. "It just you? ....Eeeeehh, ouch." End Credit Scene: Nick Fury and Maria Hill are driving as people start disintegrating around them. Maria goes first as Fury tries to send out a distress call, right before he disintegrates too. We see Fury’s message device sending out the call to reveal the insignia of…CAPTAIN MARVEL. PHASE 3 MOVIE 10