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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.
Metroid is a 2026 American dystopian science fiction action film based on the video game franchise of the same name created and developed by Nintendo Entertainment. Produced by Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is the first installment of the Metroid film series. Directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by Zack Snyder and Jeremy Slater, the film stars Cara Delevingne as Samus "Sam" Aran, along with Mahershala Ali, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ving Rhames, Willem Dafoe, Karl Urban, Andy Serkis, Paul Rudd, Bridget Moynahan, and Samuel L. Jackson. It serves as an origin story for Samus. Set primarily on the dystopian future in Planet Earth, Sam is a widowed hiking expedition member whose husband and son died recently from huntington's disease. Upon discovering a Metroid alien creature, she embarks on a perilous journey to find answers as to what this means. Metroid was released in theaters on December 10th, 2026; it received generally positive reviews from critics, while audience and fan receptions alike were raving, namely for its action, story, visuals, Delevingne's performance, Hans Zimmer's musical score, and faithfulness to the source material. It was also a box-office success and became the second-highest-grossing video game film of all time at 1.03 billion worldwide, making it Blomkamp's most successful film to date. A sequel was announced and is now in production.
