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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2027
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Mahershala Ali
Also known as Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Mahershala Karim-Ali, Hershal Gilmore, Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore
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).
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Personal details
Full filmography
2027
2026
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Wildwood
as Brenden (voice)
2026
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
as Latif
2026
2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth
as Duncan Kincaid
2025
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Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
as Self
2025
2023
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Leave the World Behind
as G.H. Scott
2023
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2023
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Stand
as Self - Actor
2023
2021
E
Eternals
as Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
2021
S
Swan Song
2021
2020
B
Between the World and Me
2020
W
We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest
2020
2019
A
Alita: Battle Angel
as Vector
2019
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Waves
2019
2018
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Green Book
as Dr. Don Shirley
2018
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
2018
2017
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Roxanne Roxanne
as Cross
2017
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Adnis
as Adnis
2017
2016
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Free State of Jones
as Moses Washington
2016
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Kicks
as Marlon
2016
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Hidden Figures
as Jim Johnson
2016
M
Moonlight
as Juan
2016
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Gubagude Ko
as Ochoro
2016
2015
T
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
London premiereas Boggs
2015
T
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - Boggs
2015
2014
T
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
London premiereas Boggs
2014
S
Supremacy
as Deputy Rivers
2014
2013
T
The Place Beyond the Pines
as Kofi Kancam
2013
G
Go for Sisters
as Dez
2013
2010
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Predators
as Mombasa
2010
T
The Wronged Man
as Calvin Willis
2010
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Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010
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Predators: The Chosen
2010
2009
C
Crossing Over
as Detective Strickland
2009
T
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
as Self
2009
2008
T
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
as Tizzy Weathers
2008
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Umi's Heart
as Ezra
2008
2003
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Taste the Revolution
2003
Unknown year
7
77 Blackout
T
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
as Isaac Dupree
A
All Signs of Death
as Gabe
D
Driver
U
Untitled Jurassic World Rebirth Sequel
as Duncan Kincaid