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,...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
2027
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
Miles Morales is now a fugitive on the run from every other Spider in the multiverse, and Gwen and his other friends might not be enough to help him.

Jurassic World Rebirth
2025
as Duncan Kincaid
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mis...

Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era
2025
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look with the cast and crew, featuring thrilling locations, deadly new dinosaurs and the next evolution of the iconic franchise.

Leave the World Behind
2023
as G.H. Scott
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the S...

Stand
2023
as Self - Actor
Raw and unflinching examination of the courageous life of basketball star and social justice activist Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Born Chris Jackson, he overc...

Swan Song
2021
as Cameron Turner
In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief...

Swan Song
2021
Producer
In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief...

Eternals
2021
as Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)
The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. When an unexpected tragedy forces them out o...

Between the World and Me
2020
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of tha...

We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest
2020
Executive Producer
Every year, hundreds of children from pre-K through 12th grade take the stage at the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest, a public speaking competition where ...

Waves
2019
Thanks
A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injur...

Alita: Battle Angel
2019
as Vector
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes ...

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018
as Uncle Aaron (voice)
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive sp...

Green Book
2018
as Dr. Don Shirley
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find...

Adnis
2017
as Adnis
A boxer trains with an old man in vacant building.

Roxanne Roxanne
2017
as Cross
The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne S...

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

Moonlight
2016
as Juan
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecsta...

Kicks
2016
as Marlon
When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay...

Free State of Jones
2016
as Moses Washington
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than figh...
Gubagude Ko
2016
as Ochoro
A man witnesses a young woman's rape and experiences the guilt of his inaction.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
as Boggs
With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – inc...

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
as Self (Boggs)
Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. An impressively in depth assortment of seven featurettes that look at a var...

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
as Boggs
Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.

Supremacy
2014
as Deputy Rivers
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 yea...

Go for Sisters
2013
as Dez
Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne...

The Place Beyond the Pines
2013
as Kofi Kancam
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a co...

Predators: The Chosen
2010
as Mombasa
A brief profile of the main characters of Predators movie who parashooted onto the planet. The short film was released on the Predators (2010) Blu-ray...

Predators: Moments of Extraction
2010
as Mombasa (Voice)
Moments of Extraction is an animated short film shows what each character of Predators movie was doing when they were captured by the Predators. Creat...

The Wronged Man
2010
as Calvin Willis
Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and...

Predators
2010
as Mombasa
A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.

The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
2009
as Self
A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in the evolution of the Finch...

Crossing Over
2009
as Detective Strickland
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. The...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008
as Tizzy Weathers
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years...

Umi's Heart
2008
as Ezra
The story of two brothers and their attempts to broach the difficult subject of religious conversion.

Taste the Revolution
2003
as Mac Laslow
Two aspiring filmmakers chronicle the story of a charismatic revolutionary, Mac Laslow, and the group of disillusioned college students drawn together...

Taste the Revolution
2003
Executive Producer
Two aspiring filmmakers chronicle the story of a charismatic revolutionary, Mac Laslow, and the group of disillusioned college students drawn together...

Blade
N/A
as Eric Brooks / Blade
An upcoming film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's (MCU) sixth Phase and part of The Multiverse Saga, based on the Marvel Comics character of the sam...

Wildwood
N/A
as Brenden (voice)
Set beyond Portland’s city limits, in Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about ...
77 Blackout
N/A
In 1977, five rogue police officers formulate a plan to rob three criminal strongholds—the Hong Kong Triads, the Italian Mafia, and the Harlem Mob—all...
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
N/A
as Isaac Dupree
Set during the early 1900s in South Dakota, Rachel and Isaac Dupree, an African American couple, raise their family on an isolated ranch in the Badlan...
All Signs of Death
N/A
as Gabe
Centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder my...
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
N/A
Plot TBA.