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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 Eric Brooks in The Defenders: The Last Stand 2019
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The Defenders: The Last Stand is a 2019 superhero film based on the Defenders comic books published by Marvel Entertainment Group. It is the sequel to Defenders 2 and Avengers Endgame, as well as the third and final installment in the Defenders Trilogy, and was directed by Gore Verbinski. It features an ensemble cast including Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter, Finn Jones, Elodie Yung, Taylor Johnson, Selena Gomez, Keanu Reeves, Oscar Isaac, Elden Henson, Deborah Ann Woll, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio and Johnny Depp. The plot revolves around a "mutant cure" that causes serious repercussions among mutants and humans. The Defenders: The Last Stand premiered in the Out of Competition section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on July 26 by 20th Century Fox. It grossed approximately $459 million worldwide, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2019; it was at the time the highest-grossing film in the series, and is currently the fourth-highest-grossing film of the franchise.
