Anthony Mackie was born on born September 23, 1978 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When growing up he initially wanted to become an engineer, but soon became interested in the performance arts and attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), the North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) where he graduated after following the high school drama program. At the Juilliard School he was part of the drama division, he graduated in 2001. He first was Don Cheadle’s understudy in a play, but quickly made the move to movies. His first movie was immediately a big role as the rapper Papa Doc in 8 Mile. He has since been in a number of big movies, including The Manchurian Candidate, Million Dollar Baby, We Are Marshall, Half Nelson, The Hurt Locker and The Adjustment Bureau.
What’s your favorite Anthony Mackie role?
I’ve seen more movies with him then i thought, but i’ve to confess that he’s not impressing me much with his performance. He did ok in Gangster Squad though.
I think he still needs a big role to really show to a bigger audience what he’s capable of.
He was good in The Hurt Locker.
With you on that!
Hey, glad you chose to highlight Mackie out of all the actors in Gangster Squad, ahah. This handsome and talented actors is always great to watch even in sub-par movies, I do hope he gets more prominent roles in Hollywood!
Hope so too. I already had ‘Many Faces’ installments for the others who where in Gangster Squad. 🙂
I really enjoyed him in The Adjustment Buearu. Talented man.
Yeah he was good on that although I wasn’t a big fan of the movie itself.
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Got to love a native New Orleanian! He was really great in Half Nelson and The Hurt Locker. Hope he gets some good lead roles in the near future.
Thanks for commenting Courtney. Hope he will get more prominent roles as well.