Age: 52
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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
Adonis Black / Dante Walker
for Adonis Black / Dante Walker in Horizon-Man [Read Synopsis]
Suggested by jake_blastercaster24
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6 Episode Mini Series of The Origins of The Guardian Guild (my original Superhero team) https://www.mycast.io/stories/the-guardian-guild-of-the-globe/roles/horizon-man/2694326 Horizon-Man is the soon to be leader of The Guardian Guild. Jor Dax was born on planet Zïon. The Horizïonians are a vicious and brutal race that believe they are superior. At the age of only 10, Jor is sent to earth to destroy it. However upon landing, receives multiple blows to the head. It knocks out his evil ways. Jor soon saves a woman named Sarah Healy who soon adopts him as her own. Sarah was a single mother to a daughter, who is 15 at the time. Episode 1 will be about his time on his home planet introducing his race, eps 2-3 Jor lands and earth and is taken in by Sarah and adjust with his new home and now named Jordan and learning about his powers, ep 4 will be Jordan training to be superhero Horizon-Man. Eps 5-6 will see the Horizïonians invading earth and Jordan as Horizon-Man must stop them from destroying the planet, truly becoming The Horizon-Man. [Will feature a cameo of soon to be Knightwing] [Cast is set in order of episodic appearance, however some Horizïonians characters will return for the final fight for example : General Grodn'r and Don (Jor's Father).]
