Anthony Mackie was born on 23 September 1978, in New Orleans, Louisiana USA, and is well-known as a versatile actor who has appeared on stage, on TV and in films on the big screen during a career spanning almost 15 years.
Popular as a TV and movie actor, how rich is Anthony Mackie? Sources have estimated that Anthony’s net worth stands at more than $2 million, accumulated since he began his professional acting career in the early 2000s.
Mackie was born to a carpenter couple Martha and Willie Mackie who owned a roofing business under the name ‘Mackie roofing’. While graduating from Juilliard School from the drama division, he was a part of ‘Group 30’ that also included starts like- ‘Tracie Thoms, and ‘Lee Pace’.
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Anthony Mackie Net Worth $2 Million
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Anthony went on to graduate from North Carolina School of Arts. As a student he played the character of Tupac Shakur in the play ‘Up Against the Wind’ in New York. He was fortunate enough to be cast in ‘Topdog/Underdog’ just after his graduation. He was also seen in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, ‘McReele’, ‘Talk’, ‘Drowning Crow’ and several more. He first performed in several Broadway and Off- Broadway plays, which started his net worth.
A year before officially acting in films, Anthony got a taste of working on-screen as he had some hands on experience of working in ‘8 Mile’, a movie by Eminem. In 2004 Mackie appeared in his first feature film which was named ‘Brother to Brother’ in which he played the role of ‘Perry’. The movie turned out to be a huge box office success He then chipped in to play the lead role of a sperm donator executive in the film ‘She Hate Me’ by ‘Spike Lee’. What added a spark to his career was the boxing drama that he acted in entitled ‘Million Dollar Baby’.All this undoubtedly adds to form an extremely large net worth.
Gradually as he started gaining recognition and his admirers started increasing, Anthony was being cast in up to six movies a year, including one of his best roles in ‘Freedomland’, that portrayed a racially charged kidnapping. He appeared in three back–to-back hits in 2008: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, ‘Jitney’ and ‘Fences’. He also played a supporting role in the film ‘The Hurt Locker’ which won six oscars, and of course all these castings helped increase his net worth.
Some of the other projects that Mackie has been a part of were ‘Night Catches Us’(2010), ‘The Adjustment Bureau’(2011), ‘Abraham Lincon: Vampire Hunter’(2012), also playing the character of Sam Wilson in ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ when he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the year 2014. Overall, Anthony has appeared in almost 40 films, as well as on TV and the stage.
Being just an actor was never enough for Anthony; he is also a businessman. Mackie opened his own bar in New York City under the name ‘NoBar’.
In his personal life, Anthony Mackie married Sheletta Chapital in 2014, after a long courtship; the couple has two sons. On the negative side, in 2013 Anthony was arrested for allegedly driving while being under the influence of a drug named ‘Harlem’.
Living a life from rags to riches, Anthony has learned lessons at each stage of his life! A successful entrepreneur and a sought-after actor, hard work has undoubtedly been a travel partner for Anthony Mackie.
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