Anthony Mackie
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Anthony Mackie is an American actor. He was born in New Orleans,
Louisiana, to Martha (Gordon) and Willie Mackie, Sr., who owned a
business, Mackie Roofing. Anthony has been featured in feature films,
television series and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma
Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier's Play, and
Talk, by Carl Hancock Rux, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002. In
2002, he was featured in Eminem's debut film, 8 Mile, playing Papa Doc,
a member of Leaders of the Free World. He was nominated for Best
Supporting Actor at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards for his role in
_The Hurt Locker (2009)_(QV). This is Mackie's second ISA nomination, the first coming for his work in _Brother to Brother (2003)_, where he was
nominated for Best Actor. Also in 2009, Mackie portrayed rapper Tupac Shakur in the film Notorious (2009). He appears in the Matt Damon film The Adjustment Bureau (2011) where he plays Harry Mitchell, a sympathetic member of a shadowy supernatural group that controls human destiny.
