Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Birthday: 1986-07-15
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Biography: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (/ˈjɑːhiə/; born July 15, 1986) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Black Manta in the superhero films Aquaman (2018) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and Morpheus/Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). For his portrayal of Cal Abar/Doctor Manhattan in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019), he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He also starred in episodes of The Handmaid's Tale (2018) and Black Mirror (2019). He made his Broadway debut in the Suzan-Lori Parks play Topdog/Underdog, for which he received a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play nomination. He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in the Disney+ series Wonder Man as the title character. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Emergency Contact
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the high-concept film supposedly takes place within the...
View Movie
Baywatch
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a loc...
View Movie
The Greatest Showman
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ri...
View Movie
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of...
View Movie
Aquaman
Half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry is taken on the journey of his lifetime to discover if he is...
View Movie
Boundaries
Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estrange...
View Movie
First Match
Hardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides th...
View Movie
Us
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug a...
View Movie
All Day and a Night
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system...
View Movie
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he ...
View Movie
Candyman
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins...
View Movie
Sweetness in the Belly
Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia....
View Movie
The Trial of the Chicago 7
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followe...
View Movie
The Matrix Resurrections
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside t...
View Movie
Ambulance
Decorated veteran Will Sharp, desperate for money to cover his wife's medical bills, asks for help f...
View Movie
By All
Dystopic crime feature set in a slightly futuristic Los Angeles where there isn't any police departm...
View Movie
By Any Means
A notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent team up to investigate the murders of civil rig...
View Movie
The Adventures of Cliff Booth
Eight years after the events of Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, Cliff Booth navigates the studio sys...
View Movie