By Any Means Crime · 2026

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
American actor
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is an American actor. He played Black Manta in the DC Extended Universe film Aquaman and later reprised this role in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Abdul-Mateen II also appeared in HBO’s Watchmen series in 2019, for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie in 2020. He has also appeared in the films The Greatest Showman and Ambulance.
Newest Release
- By Any Means Crime · 2026

"Based on a true story, a young Black FBI agent (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) is sent into 1960s Mississippi to investigate a wave of brutal killings targeting civil rights leaders. Forced to work alongside notorious mafia hitman Greg Scarpa (Mark Wahlberg), he finds himself pulled into a deadly hunt where justice and vengeance begin to blur. When the system is broken, two men divided by everything agree on one thing: the law has limits. They don’t."
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About
- FROM
- New Orleans, LA, United States
- BORN
- July 15, 1986