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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.
A descendant of Sir Percy of Scandia, one of King Arthur’s most trusted knights, Dane Whitman was raised by his uncle Nathaniel Garrett, who told him of the curse upon their family and the Ebony Blade- the source of it. All the members of their family are drawn to the power of the Ebony Balde, which draws upon its wielder’s blood lust and makes them almost vampire like in their need to kill. Merlyn forged the weapon out of a meteor of Uru along with multiple other items (goblet, scepter, and shield). Dane has avoided the sword his whole life to not become like his uncle who was corrupted with the power and killed by Union Jack after he went on a killing spree. But Dane takes the blade out of hiding to try and find Sersi after she was taken by Arishem. Before he unleashes the curse of the sword he is warned by Eric Brooks aka Blade the Vampire Hunter who helps train Dane to properly use a sword. Dane, in an attempt to find Sersi when she could be anywhere in the universe, goes to Percy’s castle that was passed down to him but he avoided along with the blade. There he discovers the spirit of Sir Percy and a butler named
