Actor
Mamoudou Athie
Born July 25, 1988 in Nouakchott, Mauritania24 films
Mamoudou Athie (born July 25, 1988) is a Mauritanian-born American actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in the TV series Cake (2019) and films such as The Circle (2017), The Front Runner (2018), Unicorn Store (2017), UUncorked (2020), Kinds of Kindness (2024) and The Drama (2026). Athie was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for his performance in Cake.
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First watchElemental20237.6as Wade (voice)In a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy will discover something elemental: how much they have in common.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
24 films as actor- TBAHystoria
- 2026Via Negativa
- 2026The DramaMike
- 2026PuddysticksPeter
- 2026WardriverOscar
- 2026By DesignOlivier
- 2024An Almost Christmas StoryPelly (voice)
- 2024Kinds of KindnessWill / Neil / Morgue Nurse
- 2024CanThe Boyfriend
- 2023The BurialHal Dockins
- 2023ElementalWade (voice)
- 2022Jurassic World DominionRamsay Cole
- 2020Black BoxNolan
- 2020UncorkedElijah
- 2020UnderwaterRodrigo Nagenda
- 2019Watch RoomNathan
- 2018The Front RunnerA.J. Parker
- 2017Unicorn StoreVirgil
- 2017Patti Cake$Basterd
- 2017The CircleJared
- 2017One Percent More HumidJack
- 2016Oh Jerome, NoJerome
- 2016Jean of the JonesesRay
- 2015ExperimenterCrying Man (uncredited)