Anthony Mackie

Anthony Mackie at the Internet Movie Database Anthony 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, playing Papa Doc, a member of Leaders of the Free World. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards for his role in The Hurt Locker. This was Mackie’s second ISA nomination, the first coming for his work in 2003 in Brother to Brother, where he was nominated for Best Actor. Mackie appeared as rapper Tupac Shakur in the January 2009 film Notorious. He first played Shakur on Off-Off Broadway (while still at Juilliard) in 2001 in the play Up Against the Wind, which also featured his classmate Thoms. Other films in the works include biopics of Olympian Jesse Owens, Antebellum slave revolt leader Nat Turner, and cornetist and jazz musician Buddy Bolden. In March 2008, Mackie starred in three plays by playwright August Wilson at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the Washington DC: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, and Jitney – all part of “August Wilson’s 20th Century”, a month-long presentation of ten staged readings of Wilson’s “Century Cycle”. Mackie has participated several times in the “24-Hour Plays” held in New York City each fall. In 2009, Mackie portrayed rapper Tupac Shakur in the film Notorious. In the summer of 2009, he played the role of Pentheus in the New York City Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of The Bacchae. He starred with Christopher Walken in A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway, which opened February 15, 2010. Mackie also narrated The Best That Never Was, director Jonathan Hock’s documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about the Philadelphia, MS native and football star Marcus Dupree. He appeared in the 2011 Matt Damon film The Adjustment Bureau where he plays Harry Mitchell, a sympathetic member of a shadowy supernatural group that controls human destiny. In July 2012 Mackie entered talks to star as the Falcon in the Marvel Studios sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier. His casting was later confirmed by co-star Chris Evans during an interview with MTV.