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
Dr. Noah Shepard
for Dr. Noah Shepard in TWISTERS: STORM CHASERS (2029)
Suggested by amrowe8596
A year after the unprecedented tornado outbreak that devastated the Midwest, climate anomalies are becoming the new normal. The planet’s weather systems are more volatile than ever, and the storm-chasing community is still reeling from the destruction. Kate Carter and her team are researching new, more aggressive storm patterns that have scientists baffled. When a series of supercharged tornadoes begin appearing around the globe—some forming in locations historically immune to twisters—Kate is forced to lead a global response to the deadliest weather event in human history. At the same time, an enigmatic climate scientist, Dr. Noah Shepard, emerges with a radical theory: these superstorms are being accelerated by human interference on a scale no one has considered. As the storms worsen, the team must chase and study the evolving weather patterns while navigating political red tape, extreme weather, and internal conflict within their team. But when they realize that one catastrophic, storm-producing event—a hyper-tornado, more destructive than any seen before—is on course for a major international city, the race to understand the phenomenon becomes a race to stop the destruction of civilization.
