Anthony Mackie | |
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Mackie at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2013
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Born |
Anthony Dwane Mackie September 23, 1978 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
Education | Juilliard School |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2002–present |
Spouse(s) | Sheletta Chapital (m. 2015) |
Children | 3 sons |
Anthony Dwane Mackie (born September 23, 1978) is an American actor. He has been featured in feature films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier's Play, and Carl Hancock Rux's Talk, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002.
In 2002, he was featured in Eminem's debut film, 8 Mile. He was nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor for his role in Brother to Brother. His second nomination was for Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards for his role in The Hurt Locker. In 2014, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Sam Wilson / Falcon, making his first appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and reprising the role in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, and Captain America: Civil War.
In May 2016, he co-starred in the HBO TV film All the Way as Martin Luther King Jr., opposite Bryan Cranston, who was reprising his Tony Award-winning performance as President Lyndon B. Johnson in the play of the same name.