Biography
Aldis Alexander Basil Hodge (born September 20, 1986) is an American actor best known for his role as Alec Hardison on the TNT series Leverage and as MC Ren in the 2015 biopic, Straight Outta Compton. Aldis is the younger brother of actor Edwin Hodge. In 2007, Hodge was awarded the role of Alec Hardison on the day of his twenty-first birthday. In 2010, he received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Television for this role on Leverage.
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Complete Filmography

The Dutchman
2025
A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a myst...

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
2024
as Green Lantern John Stewart (voice)
Now fully revealed as the ultimate threat to existence, the Anti-Monitor wages an unrelenting attack on the surviving Earths that struggle for surviva...

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
2024
as John Stewart (voice)
An endless army of shadow demons bent on the destruction of all reality swarms over our world and all parallel Earths! The only thing opposing them is...

Parallel
2024
as Alex
Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe...

Parallel
2024
Producer, Writer
Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe...

Marmalade
2024
as Otis
Baron, an imprisoned man, strikes up a friendship with cellmate Otis. As the pair hatch an escape plan together, Baron recalls the story of how he met...

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
2024
as John Stewart / Power Ring (voice)
Death is coming. Worse than death: oblivion. Not just for our Earth, but for everyone, everywhere, in every universe! Against this ultimate destructio...

Black Adam
2022
as Hawkman / Carter Hall
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his ear...

Black Adam: Saviour or Destroyer?
2022
as Self
Ahead of the release of upcoming fantasy film ‘Black Adam’, sit down with Dwayne Johnson as he discusses his starring role as the eponymous superhero.

Green Lantern: Beware My Power
2022
as John Stewart / Green Lantern (voice)
Recently discharged Marine sniper John Stewart is at a crossroads in his life, one which is only complicated by receiving an extraterrestrial ring whi...

DC Fandome 2021
2021
A global live online event uniting DC Comics creations and adaptations with fans around the globe.

A Night at the Academy Museum
2021
as Self
Exclusive look at the movies' 120-year history as well as an insight into the largest institution in the U.S. dedicated to the arts, sciences and arti...

The Birthday Cake
2021
as Eagle
On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a cake to the home of his uncle, a mob boss, for a ce...

One Night in Miami...
2020
as Jim Brown
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of his...

Magic Camp
2020
as Theo's Dad
Andy, at the urging of his former mentor and Magic Camp owner Roy Preston, returns to the camp of his youth hoping to reignite his career. Instead, he...
The Making of Clemency
2020
as Himself
Behind the scenes of Clemency (2019). An Emotionally Charged Set, Clemency's Message, The Research Process, Working with Alfre Woodard, Working with A...

The Invisible Man
2020
as James Lanier
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, C...

Clemency
2019
as Anthony Woods
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine...

Brian Banks
2019
as Brian Banks
An All-American football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is falsely accused of rape and sent to prison.

What Men Want
2019
as Will
Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.

Hidden Figures
2016
as Levi Jackson
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brain...

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016
as Espin
Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when...

Straight Outta Compton
2015
as MC Ren
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in Am...

The After
2014
as D. Love
Eight strangers are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.

The East
2013
as Thumbs
An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group ...

A Good Day to Die Hard
2013
as Foxy
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son J...

The Sixth Gun
2013
as Agent Mercer
Failed pilot adaptation of an eponymous comic book set in the old west about six cursed guns that give dark powers and are tied to its owners until th...

Red Sands
2009
as Trevor Anderson
A group of U.S. soldiers on a mission in the Middle East find themselves with nothing to do in their free time. Out of sheer boredom they end up destr...

Equal Opportunity
2007
as Leroy Williams Jones III

Happy Feet
2006
as (voice)
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fier...

American Dreamz
2006
as Soldier Chuck
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to ...

The Tenants
2006
as Sam Clemence
The story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves ...

Snow Wonder
2005
as Hotel Piano Player
A suspiciously magical Christmas Eve snowstorm blows some small miracles into the lives of people around the country.

Edmond
2005
as Leafletter
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is ...

Little Athens
2005
as Pitt
A day in Athens, Arizona, as teens and twenty-somethings navigate life without a compass. Jimmy has gambling debts and sees a chance to steal and sell...

The Ladykillers
2004
as Doughnut Gangster
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord...

Big Momma's House
2000
as Basketball Teen #2
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate...

Bed of Roses
1996
as Prince
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies c...

Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
as Raymond
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with c...

Legacy
N/A
as Kevin
A group of inmates discuss their daily routines inside prison, their crimes and how they don't tolerate the system. It all changes when a powerful and...