Mahershala Ali
ahershala Ali may have come to worldwide attention in 2016 with his Oscar-winning role in , but he’d been grafting away for over a decade with minor roles in television and film, before finally breaking through in 2013 as slick lobbyist Remy Danton in . He’ll soon be back on TV screens in the third season of , but in , his first major film role since , Ali plays Dr Don Shirley, a concert pianist who, in 1962, hires Viggo Mortenson’s blue-collar bouncer, Tony “Lip”, to act as his driver and and ) it’s an odd-couple crowd-pleaser that will no doubt see Ali back on the awards trail this year.
