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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

J'onn J'onzz/John Jones
for J'onn J'onzz/John Jones in MARTIAN MANHUNTER: MAN ON FIRE
Suggested by jake_blastercaster24

J'onn J'onzz will meet his niece and will need his help defeating The Human Flame. Detective John Jones (J'onn J'onzz) is on hot pursuit solving a string of murders in which victims are found torched or burned with fire. Along the course of the case, John Jones will fall in love with Rose Wilson, his neighbour. Suddenly, J'onn will come face to face with a man who has Pyrokinesis (meaning he can manipulate fire), a man on fire, but not burning. John as Martian Manhunter must teams up with M'gaan, his niece from Mars, to face off against the being calling himself: The Human Flame. This will be immensely difficult due to Martains being rendered weak by fire, they both will have to deal with psychological fear of fire and a way to overcome it. J'onn soon discovers something is up with his new girlfriend Rose, Why does she keep meeting with the villain Deathstroke on a weekly basis?