Anthony Mackie

Biography

Anthony Dwane Mackie (born September 23, 1978) is an American actor. He gained wide recognition for portraying Sam Wilson / Falcon / Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and headlining the Disney+ miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and its continuation film Captain America: Brave New World (2025). 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 a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the AAFCA 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) and currently leads the Peacock series Twisted Metal (2023–present). 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.

Known For

Papa Doc

8 Mile

Shawrelle Berry

Million Dollar Baby

Jack Armstrong

She Hate Me

Nate Ruffin

We Are Marshall

Ty (voice)

Sneaks

Frank

Half Nelson

Sergeant JT Sanborn

The Hurt Locker

Booty

The Man

William Bowman

Eagle Eye

Billy Williams

Freedomland

Hammer

Haven

Harold Jackson

Desert Flower

Sam Wilson / Falcon / Captain America (archive footage)

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

Desert Warrior

William Lee

Heavens Fall

Tech

Crossover

Harry Mitchell

The Adjustment Bureau

Tom Piper

What's Your Number?

Perry

Brother to Brother

Finn

Real Steel

Grandson of Sam

Ghosted

K-Luv

Sucker Free City

Mike Ackerman

Man on a Ledge

Marcus Washington

Night Catches Us

Self - Host

Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie

Tommy

Repentance

Will Johnson

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Coleman Harris

Gangster Squad

Andre

10 Years

Sam Wilson / Falcon

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Shavers

Runner Runner

Ending Things

Adrian Doorbal

Pain & Gain

Buddy Bolden

Louis

Kris

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete

Clybourne Park

Narrator

Goose

Eddie Porter (uncredited)

American Violet

Bryan

Playing It Cool

Tahir

Shelter

Marcus Belmont

Triple 9

Chris

The Night Before

Will

Elevation

Sam Wilson / Falcon

Captain America: Civil War

PFC Robert Baker III

The Manchurian Candidate

Herman (voice)

The Electric State

Officer Percy Williams

Love the Coopers

Sam Wilson / The Falcon

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Sam Coulson

The Fifth Estate

Martin Luther King, Jr.

All the Way

Self

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford

Ben

Our Brand Is Crisis

Adam Gherrity

If You Were the Last

Sam Wilson / Falcon

Ant-Man

Dewayne 'Lee' Johnson

Monsanto

Self

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe

Killer 'Joker'

Hollywood Homicide

Greene

Detroit

Micah

IO

Sam Wilson / Falcon

Avengers: Infinity War

Jeremiah Jeffers

Black or White

King

The Hate U Give

Tupac "2Pac" Shakur

Notorious

Hakim Jamal

Seberg

Paul

Point Blank

Ed Fox

The Woman in the Window

Steve Denube

Synchronic

Jimmy

Miss Bala

Self

14 Actors Acting

Bernard Garrett

The Banker

Self

Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee

Sam Wilson / Falcon

Avengers: Endgame

Self

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

Leo

Outside the Wire

Self

Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe

Sam Wilson / Captain America

Captain America: Brave New World

Frank Presley

We Have a Ghost

Sam Wilson / Captain America

Avengers: Doomsday

Sam Wilson / Captain America

Avengers: Secret Wars

Self

Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

80

Gender

Male

Birthday

1978-09-23

Place of Birth

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Also Known As

Anthony Dwane Mackie