Anthony Mackie Parents: Meet Willie Mackie, Martha Mackie

Anthony Dwane Mackie, an American actor, began his career as Don Cheadles understudy in Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog.He received an OBIE Award for his performance in Carl Hancock Ruxs play Talk. In the 2002 film 8 Mile, he played the major antagonist, Papa Doc.

Anthony Dwane Mackie, an American actor, began his career as Don Cheadle’s understudy in Suzan-Lori Parks’ play Topdog/Underdog. He received an OBIE Award for his performance in Carl Hancock Rux’s play Talk. In the 2002 film 8 Mile, he played the major antagonist, Papa Doc.

His first starring role was as Perry, a young gay black man, in the 2003 independent film Brother to Brother. The following year, he appeared in Million Dollar Baby and Spike Lee’s She Hate Me. He appeared in Half Nelson, Crossover, and We Are Marshall in 2006.

In March 2008, Mackie appeared in three plays by August Wilson at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

He also took part in the “24-Hour Plays” in New York City on multiple occasions. In mid-2009, he appeared as Pentheus in Shakespeare in the Park, a production of the New York City Public Theater. In February 2010, he co-starred with Christopher Walken on Broadway in A Behanding in Spokane.

In the 2009 film Notorious, Mackie played the late American rapper Tupac Shakur. He had previously played Shakur in the play Up Against the Wind while studying at Juilliard in 2001. He also starred in The Hurt Locker and narrated The Best That Never Was in 2009.

Anthony Mackie Parents: Meet Willie Mackie, Martha Mackie

Anthony Mackie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 23, 1978. He is the son of Martha and Willie Mackie Sr. His father was a carpenter and the proprietor of Mackie Roofing, a roofing company. Calvin Mackie, Anthony’s brother, was formerly an associate professor of engineering at Tulane University and is currently employed with the Louisiana Recovery Authority.

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