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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.
Amelia is a talented and beautiful driver with a legendary car racer father who died in a crash on circuit while raining. Other racer bumped to his car and he left track and the car was bouncing. Her brother, Louis, is now top racer, but broke his arm before the season's final race, they need a replacement. Despite doubts, Amelia steps up to take his place. She was trained by father and then by louis, but he worries for her. Her skills quickly impress all. The leading driver and great friend of Louis, Jeremy, supports her, while Broderick, ruthless racer, mocks and is bad on her. Sophia, her bff is secretly in love with Louis. They start dating, unsure how to tell her. Amelia trains hard with Louis and Jeremy, who realize his feelings for her. In Qualifiers, she got a great position. All happens under Frank, seasoned mechanic, their father’s best friend and key member of the team, he mentors Amelia. In the final race, tensions run high. A lot of cars were broken in collisions. Jeremy leads, but Broderick and Amélia are next to him. Near the spot where her father died, Broderick bump her. And all 3 racers are out of track. They All tries to come back, Broderick is first. Jeremy see Amelia cry in her car and starts his and try to push her back on track, sacrifices his chance at victory for Amelia and pushes her to finish because love is more then win. Broderick wins the race, that means Jeremy lost not only a race but whole championship. Amelia finishes 2nd, earning respect.
