Happy Birthday Anthony Mackie!

Let’s give a happy birthday cheer for Anthony Mackie!  One of his first film roles was Papa Doc, who has rival to Eminem’s B-Rabbit in 8-Mile (2002).  He played Joker in the action comedy, Hollywood Homicide (2003).  The boxing drama, starred Mackie as Shawrele Berry in Million Dollar Baby (2004).  A football player who did not make the fateful flight, Nate Ruffin, was played by Mackie in We Are Marshall (2006).  Mackie played Sergeant JT Sanborn alongside Jeremy Renner in the war drama, The Hurt Locker (2008).  Notorious (2009), the bio drama, featured Mackie as Tupac Shakur.  Mackie entered genre films with the sci fi Philip K. Dick adaptation, The Adjustment Bureau (2011).  He was also in another sci fi movie, Real Steel (2011), playing Finn.  Mackie continued in action films playing Wil Johnson who fights alongside Abraham Lincoln: Hunter (2012).  

Anthony Mackie entered the MCU as Sam Wilson, The Falcon, in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).  He fought with the Avengers in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).  Also, having a cameo as the character in Ant-Man (2015).  Mackie was also in the comedy, The Night Before (2015).  He was again The Falcon in Captain America: Civil War (2016).  He starred as Martin Luther King, Jr. in the television bio drama, All the Way (2016).  Mackie returned as The Falcon in Avengers: Infinity War (2018). He was in the drama, The Hate U Give (2018)  baseed on the novel by Angie Thomas.  Mackie finished the threat of Thanos in Avengers: Endgame (2019).  He starred in the Black Mirror episode, “Striking Vipers” (2019) as Danny.  In the sci fi series, Altered Carbon (2020), Mackie played Takeshi Kovacs.  He put on his Falcon wings in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and at the end took up the shield as Captain America!  He has upcoming the comedy video game series adaptation, Twisted Metal and the lead in Captain America: New World Order! 

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