It stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe in her first film appearance, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali. The film presents three stages in the life of the main character: his childhood, adolescence, and early adult life.

Moonlight: Directed by Barry Jenkins. With Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson, Alex R. Hibbert. A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.

Mar 8, 2023 · Mahershala Ali took home the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Juan, "Little" Chiron's mentor, in Moonlight. Prior to Moonlight, he earned credits for The Curious...

Dec 27, 2024 · In the first act, successful drug dealer Juan (played by Mahershala Ali) sees a young boy fleeing a group of other boys threatening to beat him and follows the child into an abandoned apartment, into which he has locked himself for protection.

Mar 20, 2022 · For only 20 minutes of screen time in the opening act of Moonlight, he was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, underlining the truth of an old Konstantin Stanislavski adage: there really are...

Feb 16, 2024 · In Barry Jenkins beautiful movie 'Moonlight', Mahershala Ali gives a moving performance as a drug dealer and mentor to Little, Juan, which won him an Oscar.

Dec 9, 2024 · Mahershala Ali (born February 16, 1974, Oakland, California, U.S.) is an American actor who rose to prominence in the 2010s and won an Academy Award for his moving and nuanced performance as the fatherly drug dealer Juan in the film Moonlight (2016).

He can be seen in the independent feature film, Moonlight, as well as reprising his role in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Gary Ross's civil war era drama The Free State of Jones, and Netflix's award-winning series House of Cards as well as Marvel's Luke Cage.

Feb 16, 2017 · In the recent film, Moonlight, Mahershala Ali plays an unlikely father figure to a quiet young African-American boy named Chiron. At school, Chiron is bullied. At home, he is neglected by a...

Ali won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as a drug dealer in Moonlight (2016) and as Don Shirley in Green Book (2018), becoming the first black actor to win two Academy Awards in the same category, and the second black actor to win multiple acting Oscars. [4]