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 th ... e 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.
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| Organization | Category | Movie | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | Best Actor | Moonlight | Nominated |
| Academy Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Moonlight Man | Won |
| Golden Globes | Best Supporting Actor | Green Book | Nominated |
| Golden Globes | Best Supporting Actor | The Moonlight Man | Won |
| Golden Globes | Best Supporting Actor | Fishing in the Moonlight | Won |
| BAFTA Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Fishing in the Moonlight | Won |
| Spirit Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Green Book | Nominated |
| SAG Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Fishing in the Moonlight | Won |
| SAG Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Manchester by the Sea | Won |
| SAG Awards | Best Supporting Actor | The Moonlight Man | Nominated |
| SAG Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Green Book | Won |
House of Cards
as Remy Danton
Episodes: 45
First Aired: Feb 01, 2013
The 4400
as Richard Tyler
Episodes: 33
First Aired: Jul 11, 2004
Crossing Jordan
as Trey Sanders
Episodes: 23
First Aired: Sep 24, 2001
Threat Matrix
as Jelani Harper
Episodes: 16
First Aired: Sep 18, 2003
Alphas
as Nathan Clay
Episodes: 12
First Aired: Jul 11, 2011
True Detective
as Wayne Hays
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Jan 12, 2014
Race for the White House
as Narrator
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Mar 06, 2016
Ramy
as Sheikh Ali Malik
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Apr 19, 2019
Marvel's Luke Cage
as Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Sep 30, 2016
INVINCIBLE
as Titan (voice)
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Mar 25, 2021
Room 104
as Franco
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 28, 2017
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Mark Foster
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1999
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Tombs' Security Guard
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 06, 2000
The Plot
as Jake
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Unknown
Lie to Me
as Detective Hughes
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 21, 2009
Alcatraz
as Clarence Montgomery
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 16, 2012
A World of Calm
as Narrator
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 2020
Ali Zafar igo
as From
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Unknown
Chimp Empire
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Apr 19, 2023
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Dec 21, 2014
Amend: The Fight for America
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Feb 17, 2021
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Aug 02, 2015
The Oscars
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Mar 19, 1953
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 2015
The Daily Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 22, 1996
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 26, 2003
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 22, 2007
The View
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 11, 1997
Stand Up to Cancer
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 05, 2008
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 19, 1953
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 02, 1973
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