Mamoudou Athie

Mamoudou Athie (/ˈmɑːməduː ˈɑːtʃeɪ/ MAH-mə-doo AH-chay)[1] is a Mauritanian-American actor, producer, and model. He is best known for starring in the 2022 Netflix horror series Archive 81 and supporting roles in films including Jurassic World: Dominion (2022).

Mamoudou Athie
Athie in 2018
Born
Mauritania
EducationWilliam Esper Studio
Yale University (MFA)
OccupationActor
Years active2012–present

Athie began his career in theater—making his Broadway debut in 2015—and subsequently had supporting roles in films like Patti Cake$ (2017), The Circle (2017), Unicorn Store (2017), The Front Runner (2018), and Underwater (2020), and in the television series The Get Down (2016–2017), The Detour (2017), Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019), and the FXX anthology Cake (2019). He had first feature film starring roles in 2020, starring in Netflix's Uncorked and Amazon's Black Box.

Athie was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for his performance in Cake.[2]

Early life

Athie was born in Mauritania, the son of a diplomat father who received political asylum in the U.S. when Athie was six months old.[3] Athie grew up in New Carrollton, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C.[4][3]

He studied acting at the William Esper Studio in the Two-Year Professional Actor Training Program; he later received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama, from which he graduated in 2014.[4][5]

Filmography

Film
Key
Not yet released Denotes works that have not yet been released
Year Title Role Notes
2015 Experimenter Crying Man
2016 Jean of the Joneses Ray Malcom
2017 Patti Cake$ Basterd
One Percent More Humid Jack
The Circle Jared
Unicorn Store Virgil
2018 The Front Runner AJ Parker
2019 Watch Room Nathan Short film
2020 Underwater Rodrigo Nagenda
Uncorked Elijah
Black Box Nolan Wright
2022 Jurassic World Dominion Ramsay Cole
2023 Elemental Not yet released Wade Ripple (voice) Post-production
TBA The Burial Not yet released Post-production[6]
And Not yet released Filming

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2015 Madam Secretary Staffer Episode: "The Ninth Circle"
2016 Me & Mean Margaret Charles Unaired television pilot
2016–2017 The Get Down Grandmaster Flash 8 episodes
2017 The Detour Carl 11 episodes
2018–2019 Sorry for Your Loss Matt Greer 20 episodes
2019 Cake Jerome 5 episodes
2019 Oh Jerome, No Jerome 8 episodes
2022 Archive 81 Dan Turner 8 episodes

Video games
Year Title Role Notes
2022 Jurassic World Evolution 2 Ramsey Cole Biosyn Dominion expansion

Theater

Selected professional credits[7][5]

Year Title Role Venue Notes
2012 Tripolitania Xavier Williamstown Theatre Festival
Becoming Sylvia Ensemble
2013 Hamlet Voltimand Yale Repertory Theatre
2014 Generations Boyfriend Soho Repertory Theatre
2015 The Mystery of Love and Sex Jonny Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater Broadway world premiere

References
  1. "Elizabeth Olsen and Mamoudou Athie navigate grief in 'Sorry for Your Loss'". Los Angeles Times. April 16, 2019. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  2. "Mamoudou Athie". Television Academy.
  3. "Mamoudou Athie Gets His Big Break In 'Patti Cake$'". 18 August 2017.
  4. Brown, Emma (7 June 2017). "Mamoudou Athie". Interview Magazine.
  5. "Yale School of Drama | The Showcase of the Class of 2014 | Mamoudou Athie". ysd.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  6. D'Alessandro, Anthony (1 February 2022). "'Jurassic World Dominion' Star Mamoudou Athie Joins Amazon Studios' 'The Burial'". Deadline Hollywood.
  7. "Mamoudou Athie theatre profile". www.abouttheartists.com. Retrieved 2022-11-17.


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