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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.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
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for Willard Drake in City of Darkness
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City of Darkness is a 2022 American science fiction action film written, co-produced, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Anne Hathaway, Tom Hiddleston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sharlto Copley, Alexa Davalos, Morgan Freeman, Amy Adams, Alexandra Shipp, and Michael Caine. In the film, a former scientist-turned-assassin named Dakota Houston sets out to give the world back its freedom, which was taken by the ruthless and corrupt world leader Armando Kraone. City of Darkness premiered in Los Angeles on February 29th, 2022, and was released on March 17th; it was a major box-office success, grossing $618 million worldwide. The film was met with widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its ambition, direction, musical score, action sequences, the dark tone, dramatic characters, visual effects, emotion, and Hathaway, Hiddleston, Abdul-Mateen, Copley, Davalos and Caine's performances, as well as for its groundbreaking storytelling. It is widely considered one of the greatest science fiction films of all time, as well as one of Villeneuve's finest works, and is considered to be his masterpiece. In 2027, City of Darkness was selected by the United States National Film Board as one of the top ten best films of 2022.
