Age: 52
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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
James „Rhodey“ Rhodes
for James „Rhodey“ Rhodes in The Invicible Iron Man 2
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Tony Stark is brought up on charges at the Court at Hague. Photos and witnesses show Iron Man as attacker, presumably hired by Putin to destroy Volstok, center of a resistance movement against him. Tony has no alibi for the day of the attacks, working alone in his lab. A huge payment of cash was made to Stark's account around the time of the attack. Red Guardian testifies how when he and Crimson Dynamo sought to capture Stark he donned the Iron Man armor and fought back like a guilty man until Pepper Potts advised him via radio to surrender. The evidence is overwhelming. In Volstok, Anton Vanko creates a suit out of the armor shot off of Iron Man, complete with electric whips, vowing revenge against Stark as Whiplash. Stark rejects the government's efforts to release his technology to the military. At the Monza race, a man appears who, wearing a very similar suit, causes a formula racing car accident and then attacks Stark. The attacker is Ivan Vanko, the descendant of a Russian scientist who once helped Tony's father found Stark Technologies. He is kidnapped from prison by Tony's competitor Hammer, who wants him to secretly make Iron Man suits for him. But Vanko works on drones - war robots. He makes an Iron Man suit for himself and uses secret software and robots to attack the audience and Tony at an exhibition of technological war innovations. He is called back to court and found guilty. Pepper and Rhoades fight Whiplas. Whiplash’s armor is connected to the Volstok attack.
