From the moment he exploded onscreen mano a mano against Eminem in 8 Mile , Anthony Mackie has been on a steady course to a career peak where he will carry his first major Marvel film playing the title character in Captain America: Brave New World. He is also getting some awards buzz as star and executive producer of Twisted Metal , the madcap Peacock series adaptation of the Sony PlayStation game. After studying acting at Julliard, the New Orleans-raised Mackie got his start onstage understudying for future Marvel cohort Don Cheadle in the Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog .
After 8 Mile , Mackie worked steadily in films from Clint Eastwood’s Best Picture Oscar winner Million Dollar Baby , Spike Lee’s She Hate Me , Kathryn Bigelow’s Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, Half Nelson and We Are Marshall . He played Tupac Shakur in Notoriou s, Martin Luther King Jr. in the HBO drama All The Way , and returned to the stage for a trilogy of August Wilson plays, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences and Jitney .
Along the way, Mackie joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing The Falcon in Captain America: Civil War and the Avengers films, and then assumed the mighty shield from Chris Evans for the Disney + series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier . They’ve gone back to do reshoots on Captain America: Brave New World , and the film is due for release February 14. He also wrapped Desert Warrior , starring in one of the biggest films to shoot in Saudi Arabia.
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