Cast
Anthony Mackie
Acting
Cast
Anthony Mackie
Known for
Acting
Born
1978-09-23
From
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Also known as Anthony Dwane Mackie
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 (2023âpresent), 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.
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Avengers: Infinity War
as Sam Wilson / Falcon
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Avengers: Doomsday
as Sam Wilson / Captain America
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Real Steel
as Finn
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Avengers: Endgame
as Sam Wilson / Falcon
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
as Sam Wilson / The Falcon
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Captain America: Brave New World
as Sam Wilson / Captain America
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Desert Warrior
as Hanzala
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Captain America: Civil War
as Sam Wilson / Falcon
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Ant-Man
as Sam Wilson / Falcon
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Sam Wilson / Falcon
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MOVIE2025
The Electric State
as Herman (voice)
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Avengers: Secret Wars
as Sam Wilson / Captain America
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MOVIE2002
8 Mile
as Papa Doc
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Elevation
as Will
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Ghosted
as Grandson of Sam
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Million Dollar Baby
as Shawrelle Berry
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
as Will Johnson
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Pain & Gain
as Adrian Doorbal
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The Hurt Locker
as Sergeant JT Sanborn
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The Hate U Give
as King
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Eagle Eye
as William Bowman
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Runner Runner
as Shavers
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Desert Flower
as Harold Jackson
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What's Your Number?
as Tom Piper
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Gangster Squad
as Coleman Harris
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Outside the Wire
as Leo
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Man on a Ledge
as Mike Ackerman
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The Fifth Estate
as Sam Coulson
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Notorious
as Tupac "2Pac" Shakur
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The Banker
as Bernard Garrett
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The Adjustment Bureau
as Harry Mitchell
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The Woman in the Window
as Ed Fox
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Playing It Cool
as Bryan
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The Manchurian Candidate
as PFC Robert Baker III
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Triple 9
as Marcus Belmont
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Synchronic
as Steve Denube
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Detroit
as Greene
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Sneaks
as Ty (voice)
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IO
as Micah
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MOVIE2005
The Man
as Booty
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MOVIE2019
Miss Bala
as Jimmy
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The Night Before
as Chris
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MOVIE2023
We Have a Ghost
as Frank Presley
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MOVIE2015
Love the Coopers
as Officer Percy Williams
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Haven
as Hammer
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Hollywood Homicide
as Killer 'Joker'
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MOVIE2023
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
as Self
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MOVIE2004
She Hate Me
as Jack Armstrong
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MOVIE2006
Half Nelson
as Frank
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Barracuda
as Karl
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MOVIE2014
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
as Self
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MOVIE2006
We Are Marshall
as Nate Ruffin
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Freedomland
as Billy Williams
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Our Brand Is Crisis
as Ben
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Point Blank
as Paul
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Clybourne Park
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MOVIE2024
If You Were the Last
as Adam Gherrity
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MOVIE2016
All the Way
as Martin Luther King, Jr.
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MOVIE2015
Black or White
as Jeremiah Jeffers
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MOVIE2012
Goose
as Narrator
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MOVIE2019
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
as Self
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MOVIE2012
10 Years
as Andre
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MOVIE2014
Repentance
as Tommy
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MOVIE2013
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
as Kris
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MOVIE2014
Shelter
as Tahir
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5.9
MOVIE2019
Seberg
as Hakim Jamal
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MOVIE2008
American Violet
as Eddie Porter (uncredited)
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MOVIE2023
Disney 100: Remember That
as Self
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MOVIE2006
Heavens Fall
as William Lee
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MOVIE2021
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Sam Wilson / Falcon / Captain America (archive footage)
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Speed the Plow
as Bob Grant
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MOVIE2010
Night Catches Us
as Marcus Washington
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MOVIE2019
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
as Self
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Sucker Free City
as K-Luv
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Crossover
as Tech
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Brother to Brother
as Perry
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Signal Hill
as Johnnie Cochran
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MOVIE2022
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
as Self
MOVIE2020
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
as Self
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MOVIE2005
Born to Fight
as Self
MOVIETBA
Raven
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Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie
as Self - Host
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Louis
as Buddy Bolden