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- Height5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
- 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.- IMDb mini biography by: Danny Fleet
- SpouseSheletta Chapital(December 17, 2014 - 2018) (divorced, 4 children)
- ChildrenChild
- ParentsMartha GordonWillie Mackie Sr
- RelativesCalvin Mackie(Sibling)Linda Nellie(Sibling)Willie Mackie Jr(Sibling)Maryane Holland(Sibling)Calvin Mackie(Sibling)
- Was inspired by his late father, a contractor, not to work in manual labor. Mackie's father later died in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina.
- He was roommates with Lee Pace at Juilliard.
- A graduate of The Juilliard School (Group 30).
- Married his longtime girlfriend, Sheletta Chapital, in December 2014. They have four children together.
- He opened a bar called NoBar in Brooklyn, New York in the summer of 2011.
- "You never see girls running after engineers."(on why he chose acting over a career as an engineer)
- "I was flabbergasted. Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw. It was a humbling experience, but Spike taught me more about how to fall on my face in this business than anybody else." (on the attention he didn't garner after being in Sucker Free City (2004) and She Hate Me (2004))
- "I've never seen anything like it before. It's like the old days of James Cagney, when women would just swoon." (on the effect that Matthew McConaughey, his co-star in We Are Marshall (2006), has on women)
- I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.
- I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.
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