User blog:ARTaylor/Mahershala Ali Turns 45

Today is the forty-fifth birthday of Mahershala Ali. Born Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, the actor is widely respected having won numerous awards including an Academy Award, being the first Muslim actor to do so, and a Golden Globe. He got his beginning working on series such as Crossing Jordan and Threat Matrix. He got his breakthrough performances as Richard Tyler on The 4400 and Tizzy Weathers in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He was a supporting actor on House of Cards and appeared in the final two films of The Hunger Games series. He won an Academy Award for his role in Moonlight. Most recently he has received numerous awards for his role as pianist Don Shirley in Green Book. Marvel fans would know him as villain Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes in the Netflix series Luke Cage and Aaron Davis in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.