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
J'onn J'onzz
for J'onn J'onzz in The Martian Manhunter
Suggested by keiranbatkin2
M'yrnn J'onzz is the leader of a resistance of green Martians trying to escape their planet after it had been taken over by the evil white Martians led by a tyrant known as Protex during this movie the resistance get captured during their escape which led to the death of M'yrnn and due to this the leader became his son a man named J'onn J'onzz after they escape from the prison they discover that J'onns sister in law M'gann who is pregnant was fatally shot in the escape but Luckly the baby is born before she died in her brothers arms to everyone's surprise especially her husband J'onns brother the baby is a white Martian but J'onn states that "she was born from one of us she will be raised as one of us therefore she is one of us". When it came to the big escape many of the Martians died leaving only J'onn and M'gann Jr who then fled to a planet nearby that they believed they could be safe on a small planet named earth when they arrived, they were greeted by another alien but not from mars he called himself Superman...
