Anthony Mackie

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Anthony Mackie

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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 (2023–present), 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.

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Films Featuring Anthony Mackie

8 Mile

20027.1

Million Dollar Baby

20048.0

She Hate Me

20045.1

We Are Marshall

20066.9

Sneaks

20255.8

Half Nelson

20066.6

The Hurt Locker

20087.3

The Man

20055.8

Eagle Eye

20086.5

Freedomland

20065.2

Haven

20045.2

Desert Flower

20097.6

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

20216.9

Desert Warrior

20265.8

Heavens Fall

20067.0

Crossover

20063.5

The Adjustment Bureau

20116.8

What's Your Number?

20116.5

Brother to Brother

20045.4

Real Steel

20117.1

Ghosted

20236.9

Sucker Free City

20045.9

Man on a Ledge

20126.4

Night Catches Us

20105.4

Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie

2024

Repentance

20144.7

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

20125.8

Gangster Squad

20136.4

10 Years

20125.8

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

20147.7

Runner Runner

20135.6

Pain & Gain

20136.3

Louis

20103.0

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete

20137.2

Clybourne Park

Goose

20127.0

American Violet

20086.7

Playing It Cool

20145.9

Shelter

20145.9

Triple 9

20166.0

The Night Before

20156.1

Elevation

20246.4

Captain America: Civil War

20167.5

The Manchurian Candidate

20046.5

The Electric State

20256.5

Love the Coopers

20156.0

Avengers: Age of Ultron

20157.3

The Fifth Estate

20136.0

All the Way

20166.6

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford

20237.7

Our Brand Is Crisis

20155.9

If You Were the Last

20246.1

Ant-Man

20157.1

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

20146.9

Hollywood Homicide

20035.2

Detroit

20177.2

IO

20195.0

Avengers: Infinity War

20188.2

Black or White

20156.8

The Hate U Give

20188.1

Notorious

20097.0

Seberg

20195.9

Point Blank

20196.0

The Woman in the Window

20216.0

Synchronic

20206.3

Miss Bala

20196.4

The Banker

20207.6

Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee

20197.1

Avengers: Endgame

20198.2

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

2020

Outside the Wire

20216.4

Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe

20195.7

Captain America: Brave New World

20256.0

We Have a Ghost

20236.4

Avengers: Doomsday

2026

Avengers: Secret Wars

2027

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

20227.0

Born to Fight

20058.0

Raven

Disney 100: Remember That

202310.0

Speed the Plow

Barracuda