Anthony Mackie
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| Born | September 23, 1979 New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
Anthony Mackie (born September 23, 1979) 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", "A Soldier's Play", and "Talk" by Carl Hancock Rux for which he won an Obie Award in 2002.
Mackie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Anthony graduated high school from the esteemed drama program at the North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA), located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He also attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). He is a graduate of the Juilliard School (Group 30), where he was a classmate of actors Tracie Thoms and Lee Pace.
Mackie has worked as an understudy for Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle in Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog. Mackie's first starring role in a feature film was in the 2004 Spike Lee film She Hate Me.
His brother Calvin Mackie, is an Associate Professor at Tulane University.
Anthony Mackie has been cast as Tupac Shakur alongside Jamal 'Gravy' Woolard as Notorius B.I.G and Derek Luke as Sean Combs in the 2009 Sylvester Stallone film Notorious. As of March 2008, Mackie was starring in three plays by playwright August Wilson at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", "Fences", and "Jitney" -- all part of "August Wilson's 20th Century", a month-long presentation of 10 staged readings of Wilson's acclaimed "Century Cycle".
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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| 2002 | 8 Mile | Clarence "Papa Doc" | |
| 2003 | Crossing | Cass | |
| Hollywood Homicide | Killer "Joker" | ||
| 2004 | Brother to Brother | Perry | Nomination - Independent Spirit Award |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Robert Baker | ||
| She Hate Me | John Henry "Jack" Armstrong | ||
| Haven | Hammer | ||
| Million Dollar Baby | Shawrelle Berry | ||
| 2005 | The Man | Booty | |
| 2006 | Freedomland | Billy Williams | |
| Half Nelson | Frank | ||
| Heavens Fall | William Lee | ||
| We Are Marshall | Nate Ruffin | ||
| Crossover | Tech | ||
| 2007 | Ascension Day | Turner | |
| 2008 | Bolden! | Buddy Bolden | post-production |
| The Great Observer | Buddy Bolden | post-production | |
| The Hurt Locker | Sanborn | post-production | |
| Eagle Eye | post-production | ||
| Notorious | Tupac Shakur | filming |
