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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 InâŠ
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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 (2023âpresent), 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Mackie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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BODY OF WORK
Anthony Mackie's Filmography
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Avengers: Secret Wars
as Sam Wilson / Captain America

Avengers: Doomsday
as Sam Wilson / Captain America

Desert Warrior
as Hanzala

Sneaks
as Ty (voice)

The Electric State
as Herman (voice)

Captain America: Brave New World
as Sam Wilson / Captain America

Elevation
as Will

Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie
as Self - Host

If You Were the Last
as Adam Gherrity

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
as Self

Disney 100: Remember That
as Self

Ghosted
as Grandson of Sam

We Have a Ghost
as Frank Presley

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
as Self

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as Sam Wilson / Falcon / Captain America (archive footage)

The Woman in the Window
as Ed Fox

Outside the Wire
as Leo

Synchronic
as Steve Denube

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
as Self

The Banker
as Bernard Garrett

Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
as Self

Seberg
as Hakim Jamal

Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
as Self

Point Blank
as Paul

Avengers: Endgame
as Sam Wilson / Falcon

Miss Bala
as Jimmy

IO
as Micah

The Hate U Give
as King

Avengers: Infinity War
as Sam Wilson / Falcon

Detroit
as Greene

All the Way
as Martin Luther King, Jr.

Captain America: Civil War
as Sam Wilson / Falcon

Triple 9
as Marcus Belmont

The Night Before
as Chris

Love the Coopers
as Officer Percy Williams

Our Brand Is Crisis
as Ben

Ant-Man
as Sam Wilson / Falcon

Avengers: Age of Ultron
as Sam Wilson / The Falcon

Black or White
as Jeremiah Jeffers

Playing It Cool
as Bryan

Shelter
as Tahir

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Sam Wilson / Falcon

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
as Self

Repentance
as Tommy

The Fifth Estate
as Sam Coulson

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
as Kris

Runner Runner
as Shavers

Pain & Gain
as Adrian Doorbal

Gangster Squad
as Coleman Harris

10 Years
as Andre

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
as Will Johnson

Goose
as Narrator

Man on a Ledge
as Mike Ackerman

What's Your Number?
as Tom Piper

Real Steel
as Finn

The Adjustment Bureau
as Harry Mitchell

Night Catches Us
as Marcus Washington

Louis
as Buddy Bolden

Desert Flower
as Harold Jackson

Notorious
as Tupac "2Pac" Shakur

The Hurt Locker
as Sergeant JT Sanborn

Eagle Eye
as William Bowman

American Violet
as Eddie Porter (uncredited)

We Are Marshall
as Nate Ruffin

Crossover
as Tech

Half Nelson
as Frank

Heavens Fall
as William Lee

Freedomland
as Billy Williams

The Man
as Booty

Born to Fight
as Self

Million Dollar Baby
as Shawrelle Berry

Sucker Free City
as K-Luv

Haven
as Hammer

The Manchurian Candidate
as PFC Robert Baker III

She Hate Me
as Jack Armstrong

Brother to Brother
as Perry

Hollywood Homicide
as Killer 'Joker'

8 Mile
as Papa Doc
No Poster
Clybourne Park
No Poster
Barracuda
as Karl
No Poster
Speed the Plow
as Bob Grant
No Poster