Mahershala Ali

Q: What was Mahershala Ali's first film?

Mahershala Ali's first film role was in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' (2008), where he played the character of a nurse.

Q: What other TV shows has Mahershala Ali starred in?

In addition to 'True Detective', Mahershala Ali has appeared in 'The 4400' and 'House of Cards', showcasing his versatility in both drama and thriller genres.

Q: How did Mahershala Ali get his start in acting?

Mahershala Ali began his acting career in theater before transitioning to television and film. He earned his MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Q: What are some of Mahershala Ali's highest-grossing films?

Some of Mahershala Ali's highest-grossing films include 'Green Book', 'Alita: Battle Angel', and 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse', all of which were commercially successful.

Q: Is Mahershala Ali involved in any charitable work?

Yes, Mahershala Ali is involved in various charitable initiatives, often focusing on education and social justice causes, reflecting his commitment to community service.

Q: What is Mahershala Ali's estimated net worth?

As of now, Mahershala Ali's estimated net worth is around $12 million, attributed to his successful film and television career.

Q: What character will Mahershala Ali portray in 'The Honorable Shyne'?

In 'The Honorable Shyne', Mahershala Ali plays the lead role of Shyne, a character navigating the complexities of life and leadership, showcasing his dramatic range.

Known for

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse poster

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

IMDb 8.4 / 10

2018 / Action, Adventure / 117 min

Miles Morales is juggling his life between being a high school student and being a spider-man. When Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk uses a super collider,...

Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

IMDb 7.3 / 10

2019 / Action, Adventure / 122 min

Futuristic cyborg Alita wakes up in a cyberphysician's clinic with no memory of who she is, and battles deadly forces as she tries to...

Name

Mahershala Ali

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Born

16 February 1974, Oakland, California, USA

Spouses

Amatus Sami-Karim (2013–present)

Children

1 child, names not publicly known

Parents

Philip A. Jenkins, Willicia Ali

Estimated Net Worth

$12 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2027	Movie Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse Hunted by Miguel O'Hara's Spider Society and betrayed by his friends, Miles finds himself in the darkest corners of the...	Uncle Aaron (voice)	Not rated
2026	Movie Wildwood Prue and her classmate Curtis are drawn into a forbidden magical forest filled with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and formidable...	Brenden (voice)	Not rated
2026	Movie Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother Latif, a devoutly religious hitman, struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a...	Unknown character	Not rated
2025	Movie Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era A behind-the-scenes look with the cast and crew, featuring thrilling locations, deadly new dinosaurs and the next evolution of the...	Self	TMDB 8.9 / 10
2025	Movie Jurassic World Rebirth Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled...	Duncan Kincaid	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2023	Movie Leave the World Behind A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two...	G.H. Scott	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2023	Movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider...	Uncle Aaron (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2023	TV Chimp Empire A vast community of chimpanzees thrives in a forest in Uganda, navigating complex social politics, family dynamics and dangerous territory...	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2023	Movie Stand Raw and unflinching examination of the courageous life of basketball star and social justice activist Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Born Chris Jackson,...	Self - Actor	TMDB 3.3 / 10
2021	Movie Swan Song In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his...	Cameron Turner	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2021	Movie Eternals The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years....	Eric Brooks / Blade (voice) (uncredited)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2021	TV INVINCIBLE Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the...	Titan (voice)	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2021	TV Amend: The Fight for America Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of...	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2020	Movie Between the World and Me Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2020	TV A World of Calm A timely antidote for our modern lives, this revolutionary series takes audiences on an immersive audiovisual journey designed to help...	Narrator	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2019	TV Ramy Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his...	Sheikh Ali Malik	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2019	Movie Alita: Battle Angel When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is...	Vector	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2018	Movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten...	Uncle Aaron (voice)	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2018	Movie Green Book Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South...	Dr. Don Shirley	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2017	Movie Adnis A boxer trains with an old man in vacant building.	Adnis	Not rated
2017	TV Room 104 An anthology series set in a single hotel room, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set...	Franco	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2017	Movie Roxanne Roxanne The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge...	Cross	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie Hidden Figures The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and...	Jim Johnson	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2016	Movie Moonlight The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life...	Juan	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2016	TV Marvel's Luke Cage Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.	Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	Movie Kicks When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on...	Marlon	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2016	Movie Free State of Jones In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather...	Moses Washington	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2016	Movie Gubagude Ko A man witnesses a young woman's rape and experiences the guilt of his inaction.	Ochoro	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2016	TV Race for the White House From executive producers Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti, CNN Original Series "Race for the White House" captures the drama of...	Narrator	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2015	Movie The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 As the war between the Capitol and the districts reaches its peak, Katniss Everdeen embarks on a perilous mission to...	Boggs	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2015	TV The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2015	TV Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series...	Self	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	Movie The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Documentary film about the making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. An impressively in depth assortment of seven featurettes...	Self - Boggs	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2014	TV Variety Studio: Actors on Actors PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through candid conversations...	Self	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2014	Movie The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 After surviving the Quarter Quell, Katniss finds herself in the hidden stronghold of District 13, where the rebellion against the...	Boggs	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2014	Movie Supremacy The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within...	Deputy Rivers	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2014	TV True Detective An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of...	Wayne Hays	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2013	Movie Go for Sisters Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when...	Dez	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Place Beyond the Pines A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that...	Kofi Kancam	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	TV House of Cards Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are...	Remy Danton	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2012	TV Alcatraz A unique team, consisting of a federal agent, a police officer and a conspiracy theory novelist, investigate the shocking reappearance...	Clarence Montgomery	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2011	TV Alphas Five ordinary people with superhuman physical and mental abilities are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas. Operating...	Nathan Clay	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2010	Movie Predators: Moments of Extraction Moments of Extraction is an animated short film shows what each character of Predators movie was doing when they were...	Mombasa (voice)	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2010	Movie The Wronged Man Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an...	Calvin Willis	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2010	Movie Predators A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.	Mombasa	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2010	Movie Predators: The Chosen Created as part of the marketing campaign for Predators, the film sheds a little more light on the individuals captured...	Unknown character	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2009	Movie The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button A documentary about the making of David Fincher's 2008 film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. Virtually every element in...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2009	Movie Crossing Over Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion...	Detective Strickland	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2009	TV Lie to Me The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when...	Detective Hughes	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2008	Movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and...	Tizzy Weathers	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2008	Movie Umi's Heart The story of two brothers and their attempts to broach the difficult subject of religious conversion.	Ezra	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2008	TV Stand Up to Cancer A biennial charitable telethon bringing together all the networks and the biggest stars in entertainment, for one night of music,...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2007	TV The Graham Norton Show Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2004	TV The 4400 4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they...	Richard Tyler	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2003	TV Threat Matrix Against the rising threat, the Homeland Security Agency has created a highly specialized, elite task force trained and equipped to...	Jelani Harper	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2003	Movie Taste the Revolution Two aspiring filmmakers chronicle the story of a charismatic revolutionary, Mac Laslow, and the group of disillusioned college students drawn...	Mac Laslow	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2003	TV Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2001	TV Crossing Jordan Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist...	Trey Sanders	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2000	TV CSI: Crime Scene Investigation A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable...	Tombs' Security Guard	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Mark Foster	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1996	TV The Daily Show The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1973	TV The American Film Institute Salute to ... In 1973 the American Film Institute initiated its Life Achievement Award, to be presented to a yearly recipient whose talent...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self - Presenter	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	Movie 77 Blackout In 1977, five rogue police officers formulate a plan to rob three criminal strongholds—the Hong Kong Triads, the Italian Mafia,...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Personal History of Rachel DuPree Set during the early 1900s in South Dakota, Rachel and Isaac Dupree, an African American couple, raise their family on...	Isaac Dupree	Not rated
TBA	Movie All Signs of Death Centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself...	Gabe	Not rated
TBA	Movie Driver A hardened Nigerian smuggler accepts one last job transporting migrants across Africa while fleeing ruthless enemies.	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Blade Marvel Studios	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2021	Movie Swan Song In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2020	Movie We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest Every year, hundreds of children from pre-K through 12th grade take the stage at the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest, a...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2019	Movie Waves A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2010	Movie Predators: Moments of Extraction Moments of Extraction is an animated short film shows what each character of Predators movie was doing when they were...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2003	Movie Taste the Revolution Two aspiring filmmakers chronicle the story of a charismatic revolutionary, Mac Laslow, and the group of disillusioned college students drawn...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 4.0 / 10

Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era

2025 / TMDB 8.9

Jurassic World Rebirth

2025 / TMDB 6.3

Leave the World Behind

2023 / TMDB 6.4

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023 / TMDB 8.3

Stand

2023 / TMDB 3.3

Swan Song

2021 / TMDB 7.1

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Got a question about Mahershala Ali?

What are Mahershala Ali's most notable awards?

Mahershala Ali has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in 'Moonlight' (2016) and 'Green Book' (2018). He has also received several Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe nomination.

What was Mahershala Ali's first film?

What other TV shows has Mahershala Ali starred in?

How did Mahershala Ali get his start in acting?

What are some of Mahershala Ali's highest-grossing films?

Is Mahershala Ali involved in any charitable work?

What is Mahershala Ali's estimated net worth?

What character will Mahershala Ali portray in 'The Honorable Shyne'?