Early life

Mackie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Martha (née Gordon) and Willie Mackie, Sr., a carpenter who owned a roofing business, Mackie Roofing. He attended Warren Easton Sr. High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and graduated from the high school drama program at the North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) in 1997. He later graduated from the Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of Group 30 (1997-2001), which also included actors Tracie Thoms and Lee Pace.

Career

In 2002, Mackie worked as an understudy to Don Cheadle in Suzan-Lori Parks' play Topdog/Underdog and won an OBIE Award for his role in Carl Hancock Rux's play Talk. His first starring role in a feature film was in the 2003 independent film Brother to Brother, where he played Perry, a young African-American artist who struggles to adjust to the world as a black homosexual. He appeared in the 2002 film 8 Mile, as Papa Doc, Eminem's nemesis. Mackie would later go on to star as a man who struggles to adjust to the world he's created after becoming a corporate whistleblower and later starting a business impregnating lesbians for a fee in Spike Lee's 2004 film She Hate Me.

Mackie appeared in 2004 Academy Award winner, Million Dollar Baby, and five years later appeared in another Academy Award winning film, The Hurt Locker (2009).

In 2006, Mackie starred in Half Nelson alongside Ryan Gosling and Shareeka Epps as well as We Are Marshall.

In March 2008, Mackie starred in three plays by playwright August Wilson at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, and Jitney - all part of "August Wilson's 20th Century", a month-long presentation of ten staged readings of Wilson's "Century Cycle".

Mackie has participated several times in the "24-Hour Plays" held in New York City each fall.

Mackie portrayed the rapper Tupac Shakur in the 2009 film Notorious. He first played Shakur on Off-Off Broadway (while still at Juilliard) in 2001 in the play Up Against the Wind, which also featured his classmate Thoms. Other films in the works include biopics of Olympian Jesse Owens, Antebellum slave revolt leader Nat Turner, and cornetist and jazz musician Buddy Bolden.

In the summer of 2009, he played the role of Pentheus in the New York City Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of The Bacchae.

He starred with Christopher Walken in A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway, which opened February 15, 2010. Mackie also narrated The Best That Never Was, director Jonathan Hock's documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about the Philadelphia, MS native and football star Marcus Dupree. He appeared in the 2011 Matt Damon film The Adjustment Bureau where he plays Harry Mitchell, a sympathetic member of a shadowy supernatural group that controls human destiny. Mackie co-starred, as the Falcon, in the Marvel Studios sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). He reprised the role in 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, and again in 2016's Captain America: Civil War. On June 30, 2015, Anthony Mackie was cast as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the HBO TV drama All the Way. Mackie appears opposite Bryan Cranston (six-time Emmy Award-winner for Breaking Bad, and 2015 Best Actor Academy Award-nominee for Trumbo). Cranston repeats his Tony Award-winning role as LBJ in the play of the same name in this telefilm, which debuted on HBO on May 21, 2016.

Personal life

Mackie and his longtime girlfriend, Sheletta Chapital, married in December 2014. They have three children together. He opened a bar called NoBar in Brooklyn, New York in the summer of 2011.

His brother, Calvin Mackie, was an Associate Professor at Tulane University.

In October 2015, it was reported that Mackie had endorsed Donald Trump for president of the United States, saying that he had "drunk the Kool-Aid." However, he later clarified that it was a bad attempt at a joke.

Arrest

In the early morning of November 9, 2013, Mackie was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated in Harlem. At 1:22 AM near Lenox Ave and W. 125th St, NYPD spokesman Sgt. Carlos Nieves told The Hollywood Reporter that Mackie was stopped while driving a 2010 Dodge Challenger after police officers observed tinted windows on the vehicle.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	8 Mile	Papa Doc
2003	Crossing	Cass
2003	Hollywood Homicide	Killer "Joker"
2004	Brother to Brother	Perry	Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance Nominated - Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	PFC Robert Baker
2004	She Hate Me	John Henry "Jack" Armstrong	Nominated - Black Reel Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
2004	Sucker Free City	K-Luv (Keith)	TV movie Nominated - Black Reel Award for Best Actor: T.V. Movie/Cable
2004	Haven	Hammer
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Shawrelle Berry
2005	The Man	Booty
2006	Freedomland	Billy Williams
2006	Half Nelson	Frank
2006	Heavens Fall	William Lee
2006	We Are Marshall	Nate Ruffin
2006	Crossover	Tech
2007	Ascension Day	Nathaniel "Nat" Turner
2008	Eagle Eye	Major William Bowman
2009	The Hurt Locker	Sergeant J. T. Sanborn	African-American Film Critics Association for Best Supporting Actor Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Ensemble Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor IFP Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Performance Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male Nominated - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated - Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
2009	American Violet	Eddie Porter
2009	Notorious	Tupac Shakur
2009	Desert Flower	Harold Jackson
2010	Night Catches Us	Marcus Washington	Black Reel Award for Best Actor Nominated - Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble Nominated - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
2011	The Adjustment Bureau	Harry Mitchell	Nominated - Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
2011	10 Years	Andre Irine
2011	What's Your Number?	Tom Piper
2011	Real Steel	Finn
2012	Man on a Ledge	Mike Ackerman
2012	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	William H. Johnson
2013	Gangster Squad	Coleman Harris
2013	Pain & Gain	Adrian Doorbal
2013	The Fifth Estate	Sam Coulson
2013	Runner Runner	Agent Eric Shavers
2013	The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete	Kris
2014	Repentance	Tommy Carter
2014	Captain America: The Winter Soldier	Sam Wilson / Falcon	Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
2014	Shelter	Tahir
2015	Black or White	Jeremiah Jeffers
2015	Playing It Cool	Bryan
2015	Avengers: Age of Ultron	Sam Wilson / Falcon
2015	Ant-Man
2015	Our Brand Is Crisis	Ben
2015	Love the Coopers	Officer Percy Williams
2015	The Night Before	Chris Roberts
2016	Triple 9	Marcus Belmont
2016	Captain America: Civil War	Sam Wilson / Falcon
2016	All the Way	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	HBO TV movie

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