Mahershala Ali: Difference between revisions

In 2019, he played a troubled police officer in the [[True Detective season 3|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 (TV series)|Ramy]]''. He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for both performances. Ali has also played [[Cornell Stokes (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes]] in the [[Luke Cage season 1|first season]] of the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Luke Cage (TV series)|Luke Cage]]'' (2016), and voiced [[Prowler (Marvel Comics)|Aaron Davis]] in the animated films ''[[Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse]]'' (2018) and ''[[Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse]]'' (2023).

 

Ali was born in [[Oakland, California]], on February 16, 1974<!--Per 2017 Hollywood Reporter source-->, to Willicia Goines and Phillip Gilmore.<ref name="hollywoodreporter20170215">{{cite news|last1=Galloway|first1=Stephen|title='Moonlight' Breakout Mahershala Ali in His Own Words: A Persona Journey From Childhood Upheaval to Spiritual Awakening|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/moonlight-breakout-mahershala-ali-his-own-words-a-personal-journey-childhood-upheaval-spiri|access-date=April 29, 2019|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 15, 2017|language=en|archive-date=May 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521210653/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/moonlight-breakout-mahershala-ali-his-own-words-a-personal-journey-childhood-upheaval-spiri|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Gutthman|first=Edward|url=http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/December-2018/Mahershala-Ali-Talks-About-Life-After-Oscar/|title=Mahershala Ali Talks About Life After Oscar|work=Oakland Magazine|date=December 5, 2018|access-date=July 12, 2020|archive-date=July 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715181231/http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/December-2018/Mahershala-Ali-Talks-About-Life-After-Oscar/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Gentile|first=Dan|url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Mahershala-Ali-HBO-We-Are-The-Dream-BART-15050962.php|title=Mahershala Ali talks BART, his favorite Bay Area restaurant and new Oakland film|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=February 12, 2020|access-date=July 12, 2020|archive-date=July 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712030413/https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Mahershala-Ali-HBO-We-Are-The-Dream-BART-15050962.php|url-status=live}}</ref> His birth name, Mahershalalhashbaz, is from [[Maher-shalal-hash-baz]], the name of the prophet [[Isaiah]]'s second child ([[Isaiah 8|chapter 8]], [[Book of Isaiah]]).<ref name="hollywoodreporter20170215"/> Ali was raised as a Christian in [[Hayward, California]], by his mother, an ordained [[Baptists in the United States|Baptist]] minister whose own mother, Evia Goines, was herself an ordained minister at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward.<ref name="hollywoodreporter20170215"/><ref name="smc">{{cite web|last=Ali|first=Mahershala|date=October 22, 2011|url=http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/mahershala-ali-96|title=Mahershala Ali ('96)|publisher=[[Saint Mary's College of California]]|access-date=December 14, 2016|archive-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302104605/https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/mahershala-ali-96|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="gq">{{cite web|last1=Viera|first1=Bené|title=Mahershala Ali Quit House of Cards and Became Marvel's New Villain|url=https://www.gq.com/story/mahershala-ali-interview|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106125801/http://www.gq.com/story/mahershala-ali-interview|archive-date=January 6, 2017|access-date=January 6, 2017|website=[[GQ]]|date=August 15, 2016}}</ref> His father left the family when Ali was a toddler to pursue a career as a dancer;<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bauer |first1=Pat |title=Mahershala Ali |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mahershala-Ali |website=Britannica |access-date=March 18, 2024 |date=March 9, 2024 |archive-date=June 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615170647/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mahershala-Ali |url-status=live }}</ref> he appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]],<ref name="gq" /> and died in 1994.<ref name="hollywoodreporter20170215"/>