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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.
Following the alien revelations in S.H.I.E.L.D., Clint Barton becomes Earth's lead operative tasked with tracking the invisible threat. Alongside Matt Murdock, Hawkeye launches an investigation, interrogating the Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four to root out hidden infiltrators. Anchoring Clint through this is his long-time partner, Bobbi Morse - Mockingbird. Clint relies heavily on Bobbi's elite tactical intellect as they navigate the global deceit. At the same time, the world's greatest minds - Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Professor X, Hank McCoy, Reed Richards, and Hanky Pym - unite in a secret bunker, dissecting the dead Elektra's Skrull's biology to engineer a tracking method. The investigation peaks as Clint and Bobbi analyze their evidence in a safehouse. Mid-conversation, Bobbi makes an uncharacteristic, logical error, murmuring, "Fury is going to be obsessed, we cannot take this to him." Clint's instincts freeze. Realizing this is not Bobbi, he swings his bow and fires a point-blank arrow. She catches the arrow. They then have a fight in the safehouse. Though the imposter possesses Bobbi's physicality, she cannot match Bobbi's precise combat training. Clint overpowers and kills her, watching in agony as the false corpse of his lover bleeds out and reverts to its Skrull form. The tragedy immediately scales into a global nightmare. A breaking news broadcast interrupts the airwaves. President Theodore Kilgore addresses the nation, delivering a declaration to the cameras: "This world is ours." The Skrulls reveal they have infiltrated every world government. We get a post credits scene where the real Captain America wakes up groggy in a alien containment facility. Looking through the stasis cells, his jaw drops when he recognizes the real Sue Storm, Elektra, and Mockingbird trapped alongside countless other obscured global figures. Cut to black.
