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Anthony Mackie
Birthdate: September 23, 1978 (46 Years Old)
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Anthony Mackie (birthname: Anthony Dwane Mackie) is best known as Sam/Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in which he has been featured in several MCU movies and is the star of Captain America: Brave New World (2025). Mackie’s feature debut was as the leader of a rap group in the Eminem-starring drama, 8 Mile (2002), directed and produced by Curtis Hanson, with Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, and Mekhi Phifer, and a triumph for Universal Pictures with a $243 million take and an Oscar for Best Song.
Mackie landed his first starring role in director/writer Rodney Evans’s LGTBQ+ indie, Brother to Brother (2003), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and then was released by Wolfe Releasing. Mackie had his breakthrough starring role in Spike Lee’s She Hate Me (2004), co-starring Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Brian Dennehy, Woody Harrelson, Bai Ling, and John Turturro, and released by Sony Pictures Classics.
Anthony Mackie was cast in his second Oscar-winning movie with a supporting role in Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby (2004), starring Hilary Swank, Eastwood, and Morgan Freeman, and which won four Oscars (including Best Picture, Director, Actress, and Best Supporting Actress) and scored a knockout $217 million globally for Warner Bros. Anthony Mackie continued to appear in an Oscar-nominated movie with filmmakers Ryan Fleck’s and Anna Boden’s drama, Half Nelson (2006), starring Oscar-nominated Ryan Gosling, with Shareeka Epps, Monique Gabriela Curnen and Denis O’Hare, and earning $5 million for distributor THINKFilm after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
Mackie was a leading member of the ensemble in the true story account, We Are Marshall (2006), with Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Ian McShane, Kate Mara, January Jones, Brian Geraghty, and David Strathairn under the direction of McG, and released by Warner Bros. Anthony Mackie’s run in Oscar-winning movies continued with the Best Picture-winning war drama, The Hurt Locker (2009), with Jeremy Renner, Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse and Guy Pearce under Kathryn Bigelow’s direction, and winning six Oscars (including Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay) and released by Summit Entertainment.
Anthony Mackie portrayed slain rapper Tupac Shakur in the hip-hop biopic, Notorious (2009), starring Jamal Woolard as Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious B.I.G., with Angela Bassett and Derek Luke under George Tillman Jr.’s direction, and released by Fox Searchlight Pictures to a $44.4 million return. Mackie joined co-stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in director/writer George Nolfi’s sci-if thriller for Universal Pictures, The Adjustment Bureau (2011), with John Slattery and Terence Stamp, and then Mackie played Abe Lincoln’s closest friend in 20th Century Fox’s fanciful graphic comics movie, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), with Benjamin Walker (as Lincoln), Dominic Cooper, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Rufus Sewell under the direction of Timur Bekmambetov.
Mackie had an extremely busy 2013, appearing in more than five movies, including Warner Bros.’s starry Ruben Fleischner-directed thriller, Gangster Squad (2013), with Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Giovanni Ribisi and Sean Penn; director/writer/producer Philippe Caland’s horror movie, Repentance (2013), co-starring Forest Whitaker, Mike Epps and Sanaa Lathan; director/producer Michael Bay’s terrific action comedy for Paramount Pictures, Pain & Gain (2013), co-starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, with Tony Shalhoub, Ed Harris, Rebel Wilson, Rob Corddry and Ken Jeong; Mackie was cast by director Bill Condon for his Julian Assange drama, The Fifth Estate (2013), starring Benedict Cumberbatch (as Assange), Daniel Brühl , David Thewlis, Moritz Bleibtreu, Alicia Vikander, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney and Carice van Houten; and Mackie joined stars Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton and Ben Affleck in the Brad Furman-directed crime thriller, Runner Runner (2013), released by 20th Century Fox to a $62.7 million return.
Anthony Mackie’s many appearances as Sam Wilson/Falcon began with Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and continued with Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Captain America: Brave New World (2025), Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027). Mackie joined co-stars Kevin Costner, Octavia Spencer, Jennifer Ehle and Andre Holland in director/writer Mike Binder’s drama, Black or White (2014), released to a profitable $21.7 million for Relativity Media/IM Global.
Mackie was cast by debuting director/writer Paul Bettany to co-star with Jennifer Connelly in the drama, Shelter (2014), with Rob Morgan, Amy Hargreaves, and Bruce Altman, and released by Screen Media Films after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. Mackie then appeared with Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Scoot McNairy, Ann Dowd and Joaquim de Almeida in the caustic political comedy-drama directed by David Gordon Green, Our Brand is Crisis (2015), produced by Grant Heslov and George Clooney and backed by Warner Bros.
Anthony Mackie co-starred in two 2015 Christmas comedy releases, first, the Jessie Nelson-directed Love the Coopers (2015), with Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, June Squibb, Marisa Tomei, Timothee Chalamet and Olivia Wilde; and then Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing’s Christmas stoner comedy, The Night Before (2015), with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Lizzie Caplan, Jillian Bell, Mindy Kalinin and Michael Shannon. Mackie joined the impressive ensemble of the heist thriller, Triple 9 (2016), co-starring Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, Clifton Collins Jr., Norman Reedus, Teresa Palmer, Michael K. Williams, Gal Gadon, Woody Harrelson and Kate Winslet under John Hillcoat’s direction and released by Open Road Films.
Mackie reunited with director Kathryn Bigelow for the highly charged 1967-set police drama, Detroit (2017), in which he co-starred with John Boyega, Will Pouter, Algee Smith, Jason Mitchell, and John Krasinski, and produced and released by Annapurna Pictures. Anthony Mackie also reunited with director George Tillman Jr. for the topical teen drama, The Hate U Give (2018), based on Angie Thomas’ young adult novel and co-starring Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Lamar Johnson, and Common, and released by 20th Century Fox after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
Anthony Mackie co-starred with Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Cordova, and Damian Alcazar in the Hollywood remake of Gerardo Naranjo’s 2011 Mexican film, Miss Bala (2019), directed by Catherine Hardwicke, produced by Columbia Pictures/Canana Films and released by Sony Pictures Releasing. Mackie was cast with co-star Jamie Dornan by directors/producers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s sci-fi horror movie, Synchronic (2019), produced by XYZ Films and released by Well Go USA Entertainment after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
Mackie joined the ensemble of the Benedict Andrews-directed biopic, Seberg (2019), starring Kristen Stewart (in the title role of actor Jean Seberg), Jack O’Connell, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, and Vince Vaughn, and which premiered at the Venice Film Festival before a theatrical/streaming release by Amazon Studios. Mackie launched a phase in which he was both star and producer, starting with director/writer/producer George Nolfi’s historical drama, The Banker (2020), with Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult and Nia Long; then the Netflix cyberpunk movie, Outside the Wire (2021); and director/producer Nolfi’s post-apocalyptic thriller, Elevation (2024), with Morena Baccarin and Maddie Hasson, and released by Vertical.
Anthony Mackie performed a voice role alongside cast mates Martin Lawrence, Laurence Fishburne, Macy Gray, and Mustard in director/writer Rob Edwards’s animated adventure comedy, Sneaks (2025), released by Briarcliff Entertainment. Mackie was the star of director/writer Rupert Wyatt’s 7th-century Arabia-set adventure, Desert Warrior (date to be announced), with Alysha Hart, Sharlto Copley, Ghassan Massoud, Sami Bouajila, and Ben Kingsley, which was co-produced-for-$-150 million by MBC Studios/AGC Studios/JB Pictures.
Mackie co-starred (and executive produced) with Priyanka Chopra Jonas on the action thriller, Ending Things (date to be announced). Then Mackie portrayed legendary defense attorney Johnnie Cochran in Signal Hill (date to be announced). Mackie was also a producer and co-starred with Jamie Foxx and Elizabeth Banks under Taylor Hackford’s direction. Mackie co-starred with Glen Powell and Laura Dern in director/co-writer John Lee Hancock’s legal drama, Monsanto (date to be announced), produced (in part) by Adam McKay, and then Mackie co-starred with Sarah Paulson, Uzo Aruba, Martin Freeman and Nick Robinson in the Pam Mackinnon-directed Chicago-set period drama, Clybourne Park (date to be announced), written by Bruce Norris.
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