"Cut the check!"
"I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do. I took that to heart. Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor."
Anthony Dwane Mackie (born September 23, 1978 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor.
He made his film debut in 8 Mile, and appeared in many critically acclaimed films in the years that followed, including Million Dollar Baby and The Hurt Locker.
In 2014, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing what would become his Star-Making Role, Sam Wilson / Falcon, appearing first in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Mackie married his long-time partner Sheletta Chapital in 2014, but they divorced four years later. They have four children together.
His films include:
- 8 Mile (2002) as Clarence / "Papa Doc"
- Million Dollar Baby (2005) as Shawrelle Berry
- The Man (2005)
- We Are Marshall (2006) as Nate Ruffin
- Eagle Eye (2008)
- The Hurt Locker (2009)
- Desert Flower (2009)
- The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
- Real Steel (2011)
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
- Man on a Ledge (2012)
- Gangster Squad (2013)
- Pain & Gain (2013)
- Playing It Cool (2014)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe (2014 — present) as Sam Wilson / The Falcon / Captain America III:
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
- Ant-Man (2015)
- Captain America: Civil War (2016)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
- Captain America Brave New World (2025)
- Love the Coopers (2015)
- The Night Before (2015)
- Detroit (2017)
- The Hate U Give (2018)
- IO (2019)
- Miss Bala (2019)
- Synchronic (2019)
- Black Mirror: Striking Vipers (2019) as Danny
- Altered Carbon, Season 2 (2020) as Takeshi Kovacs
- The Banker (2020)
- Outside the Wire (2021)
- The Woman in the Window (2021)
- We Have a Ghost (2023)
- Ghosted (2023)
- Twisted Metal (2023) as John Doe
He provides examples of:
- The Big Easy: He is a very, very, very vocally proud native of New Orleans.
- Catchphrase: Going by the extra features of the Winter Soldier Blu-Ray, he's fond of saying "Cut the check!" (In the sense of "Good job, guys; we earned our pay today.")
- Celebrity Paradox: He stars in Synchronic, which (via connections with Resolution and The Endless) is in the same universe as Spring, in which 8 Mile is mentioned.
- Keet: Just watch him playing superhero charades.
- Promoted Fanboy: He's such a big fan of The Falcon that he was actually disappointed when he found out the filmmakers weren't going to have him wear the red spandex costume the character wears in the comics.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Plays up a rivalry with Tom Holland, due to the younger actor stealing his Catchphrase on set of Civil War. Consider this montage of him (and Sebastian Stan) roasting Holland.
- So My Kids Can Watch: He claims he pursued the role of The Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so that his son and other African-American children can see that there are superheroes who look like them. Mackie was pretty excited to see there'd be kids dressing up like him on Halloween. Even cooler now that his character is Captain America.
- Those Two Actors: He's starred alongside Chris Evans in What's Your Number?, A Many Splintered Thing, Playing It Cool, Ghosted, and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Token Minority: Mackie himself has joked that he often ends up playing the lone African American character in many of his films. A Running Gag in the Hilarious Outtakes of MCU films he appears in is asking the director(s) what other more famous and revered black actors they want him to emulate.
