Anthony Mackie 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 Talk, by Carl Hancock Rux, 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 is Mackie's second ISA nomination,
the first coming for his work in 2003 in Brother to Brother, where he
was nominated for Best Actor.
Also in 2009, Mackie portrayed rapper
Tupac Shakur in the film Notorious. He appears 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. As of the day of this post, Anthony is rumored to be joining the hit PBS show 'Downton Abbey'.
Date of Birth
23 September 1979, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Height
5' 10½"