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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 16, 1974
Place of Birth
Oakland, California, USA
Also Known As
- Mahershalalhashbaz Ali
- Mahershala Karim-Ali
- 마허샬라 알리
- Махершала Али
- Hershal Gilmore
- Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore
- Магершала Алі
- マハーシャラルハズバズ・アリ
- ماهرشالا علی
- مهرشالا علی
Mahershala Ali
2.2 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
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Uncle Aaron (voice)
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027
6.4
Duncan Kincaid
Jurassic World Rebirth
2025
8.7
Self
Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
2025
6.4
G.H. Scott
Leave the World Behind
2023
8.3
Uncle Aaron (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023
8.0
Self - Narrator (voice)
Chimp Empire
2023
3.3
Self - Actor
Stand
2023
7.1
Cameron Turner
Swan Song
2021
6.8
Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
Eternals
2021
8.6
Titan (voice)
INVINCIBLE
2021
Credits
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2027
0.0
Jurassic World Rebirth
as Duncan Kincaid
2025
6.4
Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
as Self
2025
8.7
Leave the World Behind
as G.H. Scott
2023
6.4
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2023
8.3
Chimp Empire
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
8.0
Stand
as Self - Actor
2023
3.3
Swan Song
as Cameron Turner
2021
7.1
Eternals
as Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
2021
6.8
INVINCIBLE
as Titan (voice)
2021
8.6
Amend: The Fight for America
as Self
2021
7.1
Between the World and Me
2020
7.9
A World of Calm
as Narrator
2020
6.7
Ramy
as Sheikh Ali Malik
2019
7.3
Alita: Battle Angel
as Vector
2019
7.2
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2018
8.4
Green Book
as Dr. Don Shirley
2018
8.2
Adnis
as Adnis
2017
0.0
Room 104
as Franco
2017
5.7
Roxanne Roxanne
as Cross
2017
6.0
Hidden Figures
as Jim Johnson
2016
8.1
Moonlight
as Juan
2016
7.4
Marvel's Luke Cage
as Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes
2016
6.9
Kicks
as Marlon
2016
6.8
Free State of Jones
as Moses Washington
2016
6.8
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Gubagude Ko
as Ochoro
2016
1.0
Race for the White House
as Narrator
2016
6.9
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Boggs
2015
6.9
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - Boggs
2015
7.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
as Boggs
2014
6.8
Supremacy
as Deputy Rivers
2014
5.7
True Detective
as Wayne Hays
2014
8.3
Go for Sisters
as Dez
2013
6.0
The Place Beyond the Pines
as Kofi Kancam
2013
7.0
House of Cards
as Remy Danton
2013
8.0
Alcatraz
as Clarence Montgomery
2012
6.3
Alphas
as Nathan Clay
2011
6.8
Predators: Moments of Extraction
as Mombasa (voice)
2010
4.0
The Wronged Man
as Calvin Willis
2010
6.1
Predators
as Mombasa
2010
6.3
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
as Self
2009
6.9
Crossing Over
as Detective Strickland
2009
6.1
Lie to Me
as Detective Hughes
2009
7.9
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
as Tizzy Weathers
2008
7.6
Umi's Heart
as Ezra
2008
1.0
Stand Up to Cancer
as Self
2008
7.8
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The 4400
as Richard Tyler
2004
7.2
Threat Matrix
as Jelani Harper
2003
6.0
Taste the Revolution
as Mac Laslow
2003
1.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Crossing Jordan
as Trey Sanders
2001
7.2
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Tombs' Security Guard
2000
7.6
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Mark Foster
1999
7.9
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
1953
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Wildwood
as Brenden (voice)
N/A
0.0
Blade
as Eric Brooks / Blade
N/A
0.0
🎬
77 Blackout
N/A
0.0
🎬
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
N/A
0.0
🎬
All Signs of Death
as Gabe
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
as Isaac Dupree
N/A
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