Age: 52
male
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
Agent Marcus Hale
for Agent Marcus Hale in Beneath the Shadows: Killer's Game
Suggested by misterwolf
Beneath the Shadows: Killer's Game is a 2027 American action horror film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Zack Snyder and Denis Villeneuve. Produced by The Stone Quarry and RatPac-Dune Entertainment and distributed by Lionsgate Films, it is the sequel to Beneath the Shadows. Anne Hathaway and Piper Rubio reprise their roles as Charlie Wilson and her daughter Dylan, alongside a new cast that includes Eva Green, Mahershala Ali, Tessa Thompson, Christoph Waltz, Michael Keaton, and Willem Dafoe. In the film, Charlie returns to her life as a killer when a new threat emerges. Beneath the Shadows: Killer's Game had its world premiere at the 84th Venice International Film Festival on November 6th, 2027, and was released theatrically on December 10th; it grossed over $816 million worldwide against a $182 million budget, outgrossing Hannibal (2001) as the highest-grossing serial killer film of all time. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the visual style, action sequences, cinematography, storyline, performances (particularly Hathaway, Rubio, and Green), the darker tone, atmosphere, Wingard's direction and Hans Zimmer's musical score, but criticized the overt violence and long runtime of 160 minutes. A sequel is in development.
