Anthony Dwane Mackie was born September 23, 1978. Mackie first appeared on stage before acting in mostly movies and sometimes television. He has appeared in movies such as 8 Mile (2002), Million Dollar Baby (2004), The Hurt Locker (2008), Notorious (2009), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), Man on a Ledge (2012), Gangster Squad (2013), Pain & Gain (2013) and The Night Before (2015). In 2014, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the superhero Falcon. As this character, he has appeared in the movies Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). In May 2016, he co-starred as Martin Luther King Jr. in the HBO television movie All the Way. In 2019, he played Danny Parker in the Black Mirror episode "Striking Vipers".
Mackie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He married Sheletta Chapital in 2014, but the couple divorced in 2018. The couple have three children.