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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
Dante Walker / Adonis Black
for Dante Walker / Adonis Black in Elastic Man [Read Synopsis]
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6 Episode Mini Series of The Origins of The Guardian (My original Superhero team) https://www.mycast.io/stories/the-guardian-guild-of-the-globe/roles/elastic-man/2753480 Ep 1: Ryan Reech is a CIA agent and forensic scientist. He reunites and fall in love with Xanthe Gardner an old friend of his. While working at his lab in the CIA grounds, he is ambushed by unauthorized intruders. That leave him left for dead as his work and chemicals all over him. When he recovers he soon finds out of his elasticity ability. Ep 2: With his new abilities Ryan put himself through tests, he soon decides to become a superhero called Elastic Man. Ryan discovers that his girlfriend Xanthe has powers, not only that but that's she is half alien. Episode 2 ends with a escaped convict getting into a accident which gives him ice powers. It's revealed to be Charlie Concard, Ryan former best friend [who sent him to prison]. Ep 3: Ryan learns that his old best friend Charlie has escaped prison and he knows that he is looking for revenge. Ep 4-5:The pair of frenemies soon reunite after so many years they fight and it ends with Elastic Man hurts bad. Ep 6 Elastic Man must ask Gold Ghost for help as they look for Charlie or now known as KillerKold.
