Anthony Dwane Mackie (born September 23, 1978) is an American actor. He gained wide recognition for portraying Sam Wilson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and later starring as the titular character in Captain America: Brave New World (2025). By 2026, he had also gained widespread internet recognition through the viral "Son" meme. 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 nominations for Best Supporting Actor at the AAFCA Awards and the Independent Spirit 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), a delivery driver in the Peacock series Twisted Metal (2023–present), and a fictionalised version of himself in the Apple TV+ series The Studio (2025), which earned him his first Primetime Emmy nomination. 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.
76 movies · 39 shows
Desert Warrior
2026·5.7
Sneaks
2025·5.9
The Electric State
2025·6.5
Captain America: Brave New World
2025·6.0
Elevation
2024·6.4
Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie
2024·0.0
If You Were the Last
2024·6.1
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
2023·7.7
Disney 100: Remember That
2023·10.0
Ghosted
2023·6.9
We Have a Ghost
2023·6.4
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022·7.0
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021·6.9
The Woman in the Window
2021·6.0
Outside the Wire
2021·6.3
Synchronic
2020·6.3
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020·0.0
The Banker
2020·7.6
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019·7.1
Seberg
2019·5.9
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
2019·5.8
Point Blank
2019·6.0
Avengers: Endgame
2019·8.2
Miss Bala
2019·6.4
IO
2019·5.0
The Hate U Give
2018·8.1
Avengers: Infinity War
2018·8.2
Detroit
2017·7.2
All the Way
2016·6.6
Captain America: Civil War
2016·7.5
Triple 9
2016·6.0
The Night Before
2015·6.1
Love the Coopers
2015·6.0
Our Brand Is Crisis
2015·5.9
Ant-Man
2015·7.1
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015·7.3
Black or White
2015·6.8
Playing It Cool
2014·5.8
Shelter
2014·5.9
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014·7.7
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014·6.9
Repentance
2014·4.8
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
2013·7.2
The Fifth Estate
2013·6.0
Runner Runner
2013·5.6
Pain & Gain
2013·6.3
Gangster Squad
2013·6.4
10 Years
2012·5.8
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012·5.8
Goose
2012·7.0
Man on a Ledge
2012·6.4
What's Your Number?
2011·6.5
Real Steel
2011·7.1
The Adjustment Bureau
2011·6.8
Night Catches Us
2010·5.4
Louis
2010·3.0
Desert Flower
2009·7.6
Notorious
2009·7.0
The Hurt Locker
2008·7.3
Eagle Eye
2008·6.5
American Violet
2008·6.7
We Are Marshall
2006·6.9
Crossover
2006·3.5
Half Nelson
2006·6.6
Heavens Fall
2006·7.0
Freedomland
2006·5.2
The Man
2005·5.8
Born to Fight
2005·8.0
Million Dollar Baby
2004·8.0
Sucker Free City
2004·5.9
Haven
2004·5.2
She Hate Me
2004·5.2
The Manchurian Candidate
2004·6.5
Brother to Brother
2004·5.3
Hollywood Homicide
2003·5.2
8 Mile
2002·7.1