Anthony Mackie
Acting
- Born:
- 1978-09-23
- Place of birth:
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biography
Anthony Dwane Mackie (born September 23, 1978) is an American actor. He gained wide recognition for portraying Sam Wilson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and later starring as the titular character in Captain America: Brave New World (2025). By 2026, he had also gained widespread internet recognition through the viral "Son" meme. Mackie made his film debut in 8 Mile (2002) and earned critical recognition for his roles in Brother to Brother (2004), which garnered him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor, and The Hurt Locker (2008), which earned him nominations for Best Supporting Actor at the AAFCA Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards. He also played Tupac Shakur in Notorious (2009) and Martin Luther King Jr. in the HBO film All the Way (2016). On television, Mackie starred as Takeshi Kovacs in the second season of Netflix's Altered Carbon (2020), a delivery driver in the Peacock series Twisted Metal (2023–present), and a fictionalised version of himself in the Apple TV+ series The Studio (2025), which earned him his first Primetime Emmy nomination. In theatre, he has performed in Broadway and Off-Broadway adaptations, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, A Soldier's Play and Carl Hancock Rux's Talk, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Mackie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Avengers: Secret Wars
Avengers: Doomsday
12 12 12
Desert Warrior
Sneaks
The Studio
The Electric State
Captain America: Brave New World
Elevation
Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie
If You Were the Last
Hot Ones Versus
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
Disney 100: Remember That
Twisted Metal
Ghosted
Rennervations
We Have a Ghost
Sherri
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Animal
What If...?
Solos
The Woman in the Window
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Marvel Studios Assembled
The Eisen Hour
Outside the Wire
Marvel Studios Legends
Synchronic
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
The Banker
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
Seberg
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Point Blank
Avengers: Endgame
Desus & Mero
Miss Bala
IO
The Hate U Give
Avengers: Infinity War
Altered Carbon
Detroit
All the Way
Captain America: Civil War
Triple 9
Animals.
The Night Before
Love the Coopers
Our Brand Is Crisis
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Ant-Man
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Hot Ones
Black or White
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Playing It Cool
Shelter
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Repentance
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
The Fifth Estate
Runner Runner
Pain & Gain
Gangster Squad
10 Years
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Goose
Man on a Ledge
Black Mirror
What's Your Number?
Real Steel
The Adjustment Bureau
Night Catches Us
Conan
Louis
Desert Flower
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Notorious
The Hurt Locker
Eagle Eye
American Violet
The Graham Norton Show
We Are Marshall
El hormiguero
Crossover
Half Nelson
Heavens Fall
Freedomland
The Man
Born to Fight
Million Dollar Baby
Sucker Free City
Haven
She Hate Me
The Manchurian Candidate
Brother to Brother
Hollywood Homicide
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
8 Mile
CMT Music Awards
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Daily Show
MTV Movie & TV Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Grammys
Golden Globe Awards
Clybourne Park
Raven
Speed the Plow
Barracuda