Anthony Mackie Biography

Anthony D. 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 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.

Early life

Mackie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Martha (née Gordon) and Willie Mackie, Sr., a carpenter who owned a roofing business, Mackie Roofing. He attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and graduated from the high school drama program at the North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) in 1997. He later graduated from the Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of Group 30 (1997"2001), which also included actors Tracie Thoms and Lee Pace.

Career

In 2002, Mackie worked as an understudy to Don Cheadle in Suzan-Lori Parks' play Topdog/Underdog and won an OBIE Award for his role in Carl Hancock Rux's play Talk. His first starring role in a feature film was in the 2003 independent film Brother to Brother, where he played Perry, a young African-American artist who struggles to adjust to the world as a black homosexual. He appeared in the 2002 film 8 Mile, as Papa Doc, Eminem's nemesis. Mackie would later go on to star as a man who struggles to adjust to the world he's created after becoming a corporate whistleblower and later starting a business impregnating lesbians for a fee in Spike Lee's 2004 film She Hate Me.

Mackie portrayed the rapper Tupac Shakur in the 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 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.

Personal life

Mackie and his longtime girlfriend welcomed a baby boy in the spring of 2009. In the summer of 2011, he opened the bar, NoBar, in Brooklyn, New York.

His brother, Calvin Mackie, was an Associate Professor at Tulane University.

Arrest

Anthony Mackie was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated on 9 November 2013 early morning in Harlem

At 1:22 am near Lenox Ave and W. 125th St, the 35-year-old Hurt Locker actor was stopped while driving a 2010 Dodge Challenger after police officers observed tinted windows on the vehicle, NYPD spokesman Sgt. Carlos Nieves told THR

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	8 Mile	Clarence "Papa Doc"
2003	Crossing	Cass
	Hollywood Homicide	Killer "Joker"
	Brother to Brother	Perry	Nominated " Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance Nominated " Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	PFC Robert Baker
	She Hate Me	John Henry "Jack" Armstrong	Nominated " Black Reel Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
	Sucker Free City	K-Luv (Keith)	TV movie Nominated " Black Reel Award for Best Actor: T.V. Movie/Cable
	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	Nathaniel "Nat" Turner
2008	Eagle Eye	Major William Bowman
2009	The Hurt Locker	Sergeant JT Sanborn	African-American Film Critics Association for Best Supporting Actor Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Ensemble Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor IFP Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Performance Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Nominated " Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male Nominated " NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated " Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated " Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated " Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated " Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
	American Violet	Eddie Porter
	Notorious	Tupac Shakur
	Desert Flower	Harold Jackson
2010	Night Catches Us	Marcus Washington	Black Reel Award for Best Actor Nominated " Image Award for Outstanding Actor Nominated " Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble Nominated – Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor
2011	The Adjustment Bureau	Harry Mitchell	Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
	What's Your Number?	Tom Piper
	Real Steel	Finn
2012	Man on a Ledge	Mike Ackerman
	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	William H. Johnson
	10 Years	Andre Irine
2013	Gangster Squad	Coleman Harris
	Pain & Gain	Adrian Doorbal
	The Fifth Estate	Sam Coulson
	Runner, Runner	Agent Shavers
	The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete	Kris	Post-production
	A Many Splintered Thing		Post Production
2014	Hands in the Sky	Jesse Owens	Filming
	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Sam Wilson / Falcon	Post Production
TBA	Bolden!	Buddy Bolden	Pre Production