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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
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for Tony "Duke" Evers in ROCKY BALBOA THE ORIGIN OF THE CHAMPION
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The character was created by Sylvester Stallone , who has also played him in all eight films in the franchise. He is portrayed as a working class or poor Italian-American from the slums of Philadelphia who started out as a club fighter and "enforcer" for a local loan shark . He is portrayed as overcoming the obstacles that had occurred in his life and in his career as a professional boxer . While the story of his first film is loosely inspired by Chuck Wepner, a former boxer who fought Muhammad Ali and lost by technical knockout in the 15th round, the inspiration for the name, iconography and fighting style came from boxing legend Rocco Francis". Rocky Marciano "Marchegiano , although his surname coincidentally also resembles that of middleweight boxing champion Thomas Rocco" Rocky Graziano "Barbella . The character is considered Stallone's most iconic role and is often considered the role that launched his film career. He received critical acclaim for his performance in the first film, earning Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. When Stallone reprised his role once again in 2015 for Creed , his performance received universal acclaim and he received his first Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor , along with his third Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor , the National Board of Critics for Best Actor and several other accolades.
