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Anthony Dwayne Mackie is an American actor, who has been featured in feature films, television series, and Broadway/Off-Broadway plays. For Disney, he played Sam Wilson/Falcon/Captain America in the 2014 Marvel action film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the 2015 films Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, the 2016 film Captain America: Civil War, the 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War, the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame, the TV series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and will reprise the role in Captain America: Brave New World. He also played Finn in Real Steel, Sam Coulson in The Fifth Estate, Joker in Hollywood Homicide, and Ed Fox in The Woman in the Window.

Mackie was born on September 23, 1978, in New Orleans, Louisiana and attended Warren Easton Sr High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), as well as 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.

In 2002, Mackie worked as an understudy to Don Cheadle in Suzan-Lori Parks' Off-Broadway play Topdog/Underdog and won an Obie Award for his role in Carl Hancock Rux's play Talk. He continues to appear in stage productions, such as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, and A Soldier's Play.

He made his screen debut in the 2002 film 8 Mile as the main antagonist, Papa Doc. He also appeared in other films, such as Brother to Brother, The Manchurian Candidiate (2004), She Hate Me, Million Dollar Baby, Freedomland, We Are Marshall, Ascension Day, Eagle Eye, The Hurt Locker, Notoroius, The Adjustment Bureau, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Love the Coopers, The Night Before, and Triple 9.

His television credits include As If, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Animals, Black Mirror, Altered Carbon, and the television adaptation of All the Way, where he played Martin Luther King Jr..

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