Age: 52
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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
Lucas Sinclair
for Lucas Sinclair in Stranger Things: Chapter Two
Suggested by askdjhfjodsf
It is almost forty years ago after young Will Byers first vanished that late all evening. With Eleven sacrificing herself to the upside down, permanently closing any and all gates to the real world, all is at peace in the midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana once again. Mike Wheeler struggles through a nasty divorce while simultaneously trying to keep the doors of his movie and game shop open in a decaying Starcourt Mall. Meanwhile, Will Byers is now a recluse popular independent comic book writer and artist, fictionalizing his childhood experiences through his graphic novels, to varying reactions from his former friends. The heart attacked induced death of their old friend Steven Harrington reunites the gang once again, along with science teacher and horror movie podcaster Dustin Henderson and new police chief Lucas Sinclair. But at the funeral, the four men catch a glance of an old friend. But it can’t possibly be an older Eleven… right? With strange happening occurring once again in a dying small town, must once again join forces, and also be forced to consider the real reason they drifted apart, all those years ago, as well as the lasting consequences of the trauma they endured and witnessed as children that continues through their adult lives.
