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| Education | William Esper Studio Yale University (MFA) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2012–present |
Mamoudou Athie (/ˈmɑːməduː ˈɑːtʃeɪ/ MAH-mə-doo AH-chay[1]) is an American actor. He is best known for starring in the 2022 Netflix horror series Archive 81 and supporting roles in films including Jurassic World: Dominion (2022). He also starred in the 2023 Pixar film Elemental.[2][3]
Athie began his career in theater—making his Broadway debut in 2015 in The Mystery of Love and Sex, he subsequently had supporting roles in films like Patti Cake$ (2017), The Circle (2017), Unicorn Store (2017), The Front Runner (2018), and Underwater (2020), and in the television series The Get Down (2016–2017), The Detour (2017), Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019), and the FXX anthology Cake (2019). He had first feature film starring roles in 2020, starring in Netflix's Uncorked and Amazon's Black Box.
Athie was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for his performance in Cake.[4]
Early life
Athie was born in Mauritania, the son of a diplomat father who received political asylum in the U.S. when Athie was six months old.[5] Athie grew up in New Carrollton, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C.[6][5]
He studied acting at the William Esper Studio in the Two-Year Professional Actor Training Program; he later received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama, from which he graduated in 2014.[6][7]
Filmography
Film
| † | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Experimenter | Crying Man | |
| 2016 | Jean of the Joneses | Ray Malcom | |
| 2017 | Patti Cake$ | Basterd | |
| One Percent More Humid | Jack | ||
| The Circle | Jared | ||
| Unicorn Store | Virgil | ||
| 2018 | The Front Runner | AJ Parker | |
| 2019 | Watch Room | Nathan | Short film |
| 2020 | Underwater | Rodrigo Nagenda | |
| Uncorked | Elijah | ||
| Black Box | Nolan Wright | ||
| 2022 | Jurassic World Dominion | Ramsay Cole | |
| 2023 | Elemental | Wade Ripple (voice) | |
| TBA | The Burial † | Post-production[8] | |
| And † | Filming |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Madam Secretary | Staffer | Episode: "The Ninth Circle" |
| 2016 | Me & Mean Margaret | Charles | Unaired television pilot |
| 2016–2017 | The Get Down | Grandmaster Flash | 8 episodes |
| 2017 | The Detour | Carl | 11 episodes |
| 2018–2019 | Sorry for Your Loss | Matt Greer | 20 episodes |
| 2019 | Cake | Jerome | 5 episodes |
| 2019 | Oh Jerome, No | Jerome | 8 episodes |
| 2022 | Archive 81 | Dan Turner | 8 episodes |
Video games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Jurassic World Evolution 2 | Ramsey Cole | Biosyn Dominion expansion |
Theater
Selected professional credits[9][7]
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Notes |
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| 2012 | Tripolitania | Xavier | Williamstown Theatre Festival | |
| Becoming Sylvia | Ensemble | |||
| 2013 | Hamlet | Voltimand | Yale Repertory Theatre | |
| 2014 | Generations | Boyfriend | Soho Repertory Theatre | |
| 2015 | The Mystery of Love and Sex | Jonny | Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater | Broadway world premiere |
References
- ^ "Elizabeth Olsen and Mamoudou Athie navigate grief in 'Sorry for Your Loss'". Los Angeles Times. April 16, 2019. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
- ^ "'Elemental' Trailer: Pixar Unveils an Eye-Popping New World Where Fire, Earth, Water and Air Co-Exist". Variety.
- ^ "'Elemental' Teaser Trailer Introduces Disney-Pixar Audiences to Element City's Fire, Water, Land and Air Residents (Video)". TheWrap.
- ^ "Mamoudou Athie". Television Academy.
- ^ a b "Mamoudou Athie Gets His Big Break In 'Patti Cake$'". August 18, 2017.
- ^ a b Brown, Emma (June 7, 2017). "Mamoudou Athie". Interview Magazine.
- ^ a b "Yale School of Drama | The Showcase of the Class of 2014 | Mamoudou Athie". ysd.yale.edu. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (February 1, 2022). "'Jurassic World Dominion' Star Mamoudou Athie Joins Amazon Studios' 'The Burial'". Deadline Hollywood.
- ^ "Mamoudou Athie theatre profile". www.abouttheartists.com. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
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- Living people
- American male film actors
- American male television actors
- American male voice actors
- Male actors from Maryland
- Mauritanian male actors
- People from Prince George's County, Maryland
- David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
- Mauritanian emigrants to the United States
- American people of Mauritanian descent
- 21st-century American actors
- 21st-century Mauritanian actors
- American screen actor, 1980s birth stubs