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
Detective Henry Lowell
for Detective Henry Lowell in The Watcher
Suggested by framefreak
When a brilliant yet enigmatic biology teacher arrives at the quiet coastal town of Grail Point, he brings with him charisma, modern teaching methods, and a dark, magnetic charm that captivates both faculty and students. But when a series of local teenagers begin to vanish without a trace, 15-year-old Elijah James—a reclusive, sharp-minded boy still grieving personal trauma—suspects that their new teacher isn’t who he claims to be. As Elijah digs deeper, he uncovers a terrifying truth: Mr. Grayson West isn’t just watching his students—he’s dissecting them, learning from them, and experimenting with something far more twisted than science. With the help of his fiercely protective sister Olivia, their traumatized ex-cop father Paul, and a few courageous classmates, Elijah must outsmart a predator who’s always three steps ahead… because this predator studies his prey.
