Mamoudou Athie facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Mamoudou Athie
Athie in 2019
Born	1988 (age 35–36) Mauritania
Nationality	American
Education	William Esper Studio Yale University (MFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2012–present

Mamoudou Athie (/ˈmɑːməduː ˈɑːtʃeɪ/ MAH-mə-DOO-_-AH-chay; born 1988) is a Mauritanian-born American actor. He is best known for his roles as Dan Turner in the Netflix horror series Archive 81 (2022) and voicing Wade Ripple in the Pixar animated film Elemental (2023).

..... He had his first feature film starring roles in 2020, starring in Uncorked and 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.

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. Athie grew up in New Carrollton, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C.

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.

Filmography

Film

Key

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	Wade Ripple	Voice role
	The Burial	Hal Dockins
	The Boy and the Heron	Parakeet	Voice role, English dub
2024	Kinds of Kindness	Will, Neil, morgue nurse	Post-production

Television

Video games

Theater

Selected professional credits

See also

In Spanish: Mamoudou Athie para niños In Spanish: Mamoudou Athie para niños