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
Kromos
for Kromos in Pirates of the Caribbean: To Farther Shores
Suggested by kipwalker
The Golden Age of Piracy is over, and the world has no room for pirates. Now 60 years old, Jack Sparrow decides it's time to leave the Caribbean and retire. With his father Capt. Teague and old friend Mr. Gibbs, he sails for the fabled pirate utopia of Libertalia, a place where pirates can live out their days in splendour. In the Atlantic, they are captured by Atlanteans and taken to the lost city of Atlantis, controlled by rebels led by Kromos, who usurped the king's throne. As Kromos is about to kill them and reclaim the Sword of Triton from Jack, they are rescued by exiled princess Kida and her loyalists, who want to use the Sword to retake Atlantis. Having no interest in joining the civil war and just wanting to reach Libertalia, Jack gives Kida the Sword and prepares to leave, but Kromos attacks, burns down the Black Pearl and murders Teague. Seeking revenge, Jack helps Kida take back Atlantis. Kromos reveals the king is still alive, so Kida goes to free her father. Jack duels Kromos, who eventually disarms and stabs Jack, but Gibbs sacrifices himself to save Jack's life. Jack outsmarts Kromos and kills him, avenging the Pearl, Teague, and Gibbs. Afterwards, Jack buries Teague and Gibbs in the wreckage of the Black Pearl. Kida offers him sanctuary in Atlantis, but Jack leaves. Finally arriving in Madagascar, Jack finds nothing. Libertalia was a myth. Jack succumbs to his wounds and collapses on the shore. He wakes up, finding himself back in Atlantis. In the final shot of the film, Jack raises a bottle of rum, saying "Drink up me hearties yo ho," and decides to spend his last days there.
