Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali məˈhɜːrʃələ məHURshələ 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 200102 and Threat Matrix 200304 before his breakthrough role as Richard Tyler in the science fiction series The 4400 200407 His first major film role was in the David Fincherdirected 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 comedydrama 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 Childrens 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 comedydrama 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 SpiderMan Into the SpiderVerse 2018 and SpiderMan Across the SpiderVerse 2023 Description above from the Wikipedia article Mahershala Ali licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia