For his part in the film, Ali ... true-life story as its foundation, this was one of the best times I've had at the movies this year." Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times. 7. True Detective (2019 ...

Mahershala Ali toplines the upcoming third season of HBO’s “True Detective,” but he was originally only offered a supporting role as the lead actor was supposed to be white. Ali told John ...

By Sharareh Drury Mahershala Ali gives not one, not two, but three riveting performances on season three of HBO's True Detective as Arkansas state police officer Wayne Hays. Set against an Ozarks ...

Mahershala Ali won an Oscar in 2017 for his role in ... taking them on a journey into the past — in the first look at True Detective‘s third season. Ali, 44, stars in the highly anticipated ...

Mahershala Ali is in talks to star in the third season of “True Detective” at HBO, Variety has confirmed with sources. While discussions are underway with the Oscar winner, Ali’s deal is not ...

Ali does a stellar job. The same can be said of his presence throughout the five "True Detective" episodes HBO made available to critics, in which he plays Arkansas state cop Wayne Hays ...

Mahershala Ali is set to kick off 2019 in a big way as the new lead of HBO’s anthology crime series “True Detective,” but he wouldn’t have gotten the lucrative role had he not spoken up ...

In the third season of HBO’s “True Detective,” Mahershala Ali‘s Arkansas cop, Wayne Hays, is haunted for more than 30 years by a disturbing mystery involving two missing kids. Showrunner ...

Mahershala Ali's Wayne Hays doesn't immediately look like the kind of guy who would fill True Detective Season 3 with Rust Cohle-esque observations about the shape and structure of time.

Nic Pizzolatto's American gothic anthology series 'True Detective' returns to HBO as a strong Arkansas-set showcase for Mahershala Ali that still struggles to make its central mystery compelling.

With the HBO series—not to mention another Oscar win—Ali is quickly establishing himself as the best actor in America Ali isn’t in every scene in True Detective; it just seems like it.

Living up to the electric duo of Rust Cohle and Marty Hart is no easy task, but Season 3's lead detectives won over the audience their own way. “It was funny,” Dorff said. “The drivers ...