His Rap Name Is Prince Ali: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Oscar Winner Mahershala Ali
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Victoria Uwumarogie
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His Father Was an Actor and Dancer
Named Phillip Gilmore, Ali’s father was an actor and dancer who appeared on Broadway and in Malcolm X.
“My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented,” he told The Hollywood Reporter about his dad, who left California to pursue his dreams in New York. “He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on Soul Train and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don’t think he had the space to do what he needed to do. He went off to New York and got into the Dance Theatre of Harlem and immediately started working and traveling with the companies of the larger shows.”
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