Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Birth : 1986-07-15, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
History
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (born July 15, 1986) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying David Kane/Black Manta in the DC Extended Universe superhero film Aquaman (2018), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) and Cal Abar in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019). For the latter, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
After starring in the Netflix musical drama series The Get Down (2016–2017), Abdul-Mateen appeared in numerous films, including Baywatch (2017), The Greatest Showman (2017), and Us (2019).
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David Kane / Black Manta
Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father's death and wielding the power of the mythic Black Trident, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once and for all. To defeat him, Aquaman must turn to his imprisoned brother Orm, the former King of Atlantis, to forge an unlikely alliance in order to save the world from irreversible destruction.
Will Sharp
Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny. A charismatic career criminal, Danny instead offers him a score: the biggest bank heist in Los Angeles history: $32 million.
Morpheus
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
Anthony McCoy
Anthony and his partner move into a loft in the now gentrified Cabrini-Green. After a chance encounter with an old-timer exposes Anthony to the true story behind Candyman, he unknowingly opens a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.
Bobby Seale
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
Big Stunna
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Dr. Aziz Abdul Nasser
Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely selfless: a passionate lost love affair is revealed.
Russell Thomas / Weyland
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
David Kane / Black Manta
Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry is taken on the journey of his lifetime to discover if he is worth of being a king.
Serge
Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home.
Darrel
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.
Duane
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
W. D. Wheeler
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Sgt. Ellerbee
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the high-concept film supposedly takes place within the underground music scene of Austin, Texas.
Producer
Terry Albury, an F.B.I. agent, is tasked with infiltrating Muslim communities post 9/11 as the only Black agent at his bureau. However, he grows so disillusioned by the war on terror and what he sees as the agency’s violations of its rules on domestic terrorism that, after sixteen years and commendations signed by directors Robert Mueller and James Comey, he begins leaking classified documents to the press, hoping to expose a system that abuses innocents. Based on Janet Reitman's 2021 article for the New York Times.
Terry Albury
Terry Albury, an F.B.I. agent, is tasked with infiltrating Muslim communities post 9/11 as the only Black agent at his bureau. However, he grows so disillusioned by the war on terror and what he sees as the agency’s violations of its rules on domestic terrorism that, after sixteen years and commendations signed by directors Robert Mueller and James Comey, he begins leaking classified documents to the press, hoping to expose a system that abuses innocents. Based on Janet Reitman's 2021 article for the New York Times.
Dystopic crime feature set in a slightly futuristic Los Angeles where there isn't any police department.
David Kane/Black Manta
The anticipated sequel to Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) and third installment his DCEU pentalogy consisting of Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Zack Snyder's Justice League 2, and Zack Snyder's Justice League 3.
