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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
Blade
for Blade in Ghost Rider: The Curse Of Nightmare (2028)
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In the first movie "Ghost Rider: The Curse of Nightmares", Johnny Blaze, a former stuntman with a mysterious past, is tormented by supernatural nightmares that drag him to the sinister Dimension of Dreams. There, he discovers that Nightmare, the ruler of nightmares, is hatching a dark plan to unite his kingdom with the real world, plunging humanity into an eternal nightmare. Nightmare is a terrifying entity that feeds on the fears and insecurities of its victims, manipulating their minds and controlling their worst fantasies. Now, he intends to use Johnny Blaze's nightmares to create a portal that will allow his influence to spread throughout the world. Johnny Blaze, in his Ghost Rider form, faces a challenge like never before. He will have to delve into the depths of the nightmare and face the darkest terrors of his own mind to stop Nightmare before it is too late. With the fate of humanity hanging by a thread, Ghost Rider is determined to take the fight from the dream world to the streets and stop Nightmare from consuming reality. In this supernatural MCU epic, Johnny Blaze will fight not only Nightmare, but also his own fears and inner demons as he rides his flaming motorcycle in a battle that transcends reality and nightmare.
