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
Detective Fishburne
for Detective Fishburne in Knife and Blood
Suggested by user_73878
After devastating reports of mass killings around the city, police have been investigating the killer known as The Knife Slayer. However, there's barely any trace of him, other than leaving dead bodies behind skinned alive. Sadie Phillips, a college student struggling to find a job and helping her sick mom with her medical bills, decides to find a job at a nearby Starbucks. There, she meets a nice man named Brian Cain, her boss, and also her new co-worker Jesse Lorcan. She enjoys the new job, making new friends with other co-workers and having a crush on Jesse, while also earning enough money to help her mother and paying for her college classes. Everything seems fine, until something unexpected happens. One of Sadie's co-workers has been murdered! Trying to figure out who it is, Sadie would have to figure out who the real killer is while also being careful of who to trust. But, the killer knows about Sadie's dirty secrets, and knows where to strike next.
