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Mahershala Ali won the Oscars Sunday for his role in the drama series "Green Book" as a black pianist who fights racism during a concert tour in the southern United States, an island segregated.
45-year-old American actor, who won the secondary actor's trophy two years ago for playing the role of mentor of a young boy in the movie "Moonlight", winner of the best movie.
In "Green Book", Ali describes the clbadical pianist and jazz composer Don Shirley. The film focuses on Shirley's relationship with his white chauffeur, played by Viggo Mortensen, on a 1962 car trip through the southern United States. Shirley died in 2013.
He won the Oscar despite claims by some members of Shirley's family that the pianist's portrayal contained inaccuracies and the fact that the allegations of badual impropriety been redone by director Peter Farrelly. his actions two decades ago, and Ali said that he respected Shirley's family and talked to him.
Ali began his acting career in 2001 as a doctor of the television series "Crossing Jordan". He played dozens of roles in film, television and theater before becoming known as an industry lobbyist in the Netflix "House of Cards" series
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Ali's birth name is Mahershalalhashbaz, taken from the Bible and used by the actor early in his career. He decided to shorten his professional name in Mahershala, according to a 2016 article published in Vanity Fair, when he was told that his real name was too long to appear on the movie's 2012 poster "L & # 39; place beyond the pines ".
Ali currently in his first televised role as Arkansas police detective, Wayne Hays, in HBO's "True Detective" series
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