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Aliases: 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

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Oakland, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 36

TV Involvements: 21


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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8
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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8

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

(2000) Tombs' Security Guard
House of Cards
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8

House of Cards

(2013) Remy Danton
Lie to Me
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8

Lie to Me

(2009) Detective Hughes
Marvel's Luke Cage
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7

Marvel's Luke Cage

(2016) Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes
INVINCIBLE
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9

INVINCIBLE

(2021) Titan (voice)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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8

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

(2023) Uncle Aaron (voice)
True Detective
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8

True Detective

(2014) Wayne Hays

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2025 N/A
2023 G.H. Scott
Uncle Aaron (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Self - Actor
2021 Cameron Turner
Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
Titan (voice)
Self
2020 N/A
Narrator
2019 Sheikh Ali Malik
Vector
2018 Uncle Aaron (voice)
Dr. Don Shirley
2017 Franco
Cross
2016 Jim Johnson
Juan
Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes
The Minister
Marlon
Moses Washington
Ochoro
Narrator
2015 Boggs
Self
Self
Self (Boggs)
2014 Self
Boggs
Deputy Rivers
Wayne Hays
2013 Dez
Kofi Kancam
Remy Danton
2012 Clarence Montgomery
2011 Nathan Clay
2010 Mombasa
Mombasa (Voice)
Calvin Willis
Mombasa
2009 Self
Detective Strickland
Detective Hughes
2008 Tizzy Weathers
Ezra
Self
2007 Self
2004 Richard Tyler
2003 Jelani Harper
Mac Laslow
Self
2001 Trey Sanders
2000 Tombs' Security Guard
1999 Mark Foster
1997 Self
1996 Self
1953 Self
Self - Best Supporting Actor winner
Self - Presenter
Gabe
Isaac Dupree
Jake
Brenden (voice)
Uncle Aaron (voice)
Eric Brooks / Blade
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2021 Producer
2020 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
2019 Thanks
Year Role Movie/Tv

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