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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.
Mahershala Ali
001 – Edward "Ed" Graves
for 001 – Edward "Ed" Graves in Program 00
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A series of murders of former spies unsettles secret services. M summons Program 00, active agents with a license to kill. Bond finds himself alongside men he has only heard of in whispers. He must uncover a secret organization that is attacking MI6. There is rivalry between some of the agents. But everyone knows that the world is facing something MI6 has never experienced. The 00 group is split up around the world. Each of them is a target. The trail leads to an agent who officially never existed. MI6 locates the base. No one suspects that Dr. Julius No is not only a new villain, but also the first 00. No is code for N°0, so he was originally a super agent with the code 000. He has begun his revenge. Using the Spectre network, former Soviet scientists, and an artificial intelligence named OMEGA, he aims to destroy MI6 and dismantle the 00 system. One by one, the 00 agents die. Bond reaches the base and comes face to face with Dr. No. Flashbacks show Dr. No, who was once Operative Zero, the prototype super agent. When MI6 discovered that there was great evil within him, he was erased, but survived. 003 freezes to death in a Siberian bunker. 004 sacrifices himself with an explosive to save the others. 005 is betrayed by his own protégé. 002 stays behind to hold off the Spectre army. 006 Travelayne dies while inputting a sequence into the central server core. 008 dies at the hands of 000 in a brutal, personal scene. 009 falls like a tank, a sacrifice that allows Bond to succeed
