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Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali is an American actor and rapper who is the recipient of multiple awards, including two Academy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, a BAFTA award, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

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Alphas

2011
as Nathan Clay

Between the World and Me

2020
as Mahershala Ali

Blade

2025
as Blade

Chimp Empire

2023
as Narrator

Crossing Jordan

2001
as Dr. Trey Sanders

Crossing Over

2009
as Detective Strickland

Free State of Jones

2016
as Moses Washington

Green Book

2018
as Don Shirley

Gubagude Ko

2016
as Ochoro

Hidden Figures

2016
as Colonel Jim Johnson

House of Cards (US)

2013
as Remy Danton

Kicks

2016
as Marlon

Making Revolution

2003
as Mac Laslow

Marvel's Luke Cage

2016
as Cornell Stokes

Moonlight

2016
as Juan

Predators

2010
as Mombasa

Ramy

2019
as Sheikh Ali Malik

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2018
as Aaron Davis / Prowler

Supremacy

2014
as Deputy Rivers

Swan Song

2021
as Cameron

The 4400

2004
as Richard Tyler

The Realest Real

2016
as The Minister

The Wronged Man

2010
as Calvin Willis

Threat Matrix

2003
as Jelani Harper

True Detective

2014
as Wayne Hays

Umi's Heart

2008
as Ezra

Guest Star

Episode Haunted
Abby
2002
Episode Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
Actors
2019
Episode Alphas
Anger Management
2011
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Anna Kendrick, Mahershala Ali, Chris Gethard
2016
Episode The Handler
Big Stones
2003
Episode Ramy
Can You Hear Me Now?
2020
Episode Alphas
Catch and Release
2011
Episode Alphas
Cause & Effect
2011
Episode Alcatraz
Clarence Montgomery
2012
Episode NYPD Blue
Das Boots
2002
Episode Lie to Me
Do No Harm
2009
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Episode 1
2019
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Episode 3
2017
Episode Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Episode 79
2016
Episode Alphas
Falling
2012
Episode Alphas
God's Eye
2012
Episode Alphas
If Memory Serves
2012
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jessica Biel, Mahershala Ali, SOHN
2017
Episode Alphas
Life After Death
2012
Episode Ramy
Little Omar
2020
Episode CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Lucky Strike
2003
Episode The Daily Show
Mahershala Ali
2021
Episode The Daily Show
Mahershala Ali
2016
Episode Sneaker Shopping
Mahershala Ali Goes Sneaker Shopping With Complex
2017
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mahershala Ali, Aaron Sorkin, Julia Michaels & Niall Horan
2019
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Mahershala Ali, Chris Colfer, Blake Mycoskie, Michael Bublé
2018
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Mahershala Ali, Jason Reynolds
2021
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Mahershala Ali, Maura Tierney, Jeff Tweedy
2019
Episode Ramy
Miakhalifa.mov
2020
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Mike Birbiglia, Lady Antebellum & Bell Biv DeVoe
2017
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Nicole Kidman, Kristen Stewart and more
2022
Episode Alphas
The Quick and the Dead
2012
Episode Alphas
The Unusual Suspects
2011
Episode Alphas
Wake Up Call
2012
Episode A World of Calm
Water, Giver of Life
2020
Episode Alphas
When Push Comes to Shove
2012