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 Knightwing [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/knightwing-1/2714579 Knightwing is a soon to be member of The Guardian Guild. Ex army man, Adonis Walker joins a secret CIA program called Blackbat. There his name is changed to Dante Walker and is trained to be an assassin, being sent on missions to kill. When he is assigned to kill an single mum, Dante refuses and goes on the run. He soon becomes a vigilante known as Knightwing. After a year, he is called back in to Blackbat for a favour. A rouge enhanced assassin is on the loose, on a killing spree and Dante/Knightwing must stop him and if he does Dante will be free of Blackbat and will receive a pardon. Episode 1 is Adonis' history and his recruiting in Black bat. Ep 2 is Dante assigned on missions and being assigned in the mission he refuses and goes on the run. Ep 3-4 Dante becomes vigilante, Knightwing. Ep 5 Blackbat recruits Dante to bring in rouge assassin. Ep 6 Big Battle with Knightwing and the Assassin. Dante soon meets Jordan Healy aka Horizon-Man.
