Portrait of Mamoudou Athie

Mamoudou Athie

Acting

Biography

Mamoudou Athie is a Mauritanian-American actor and producer. He is best known for his roles in the films The Circle (2017), The Front Runner (2018), Unicorn Store (2017), Underwater (2020), and Uncorked (2020), as well as the television series The Get Down (2016–2017) and Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019). Athie was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for his performance in Cake.

Born: July 25, 1988

Place of Birth: Mauritania

Filmography

2026
By Design

as Olivier

2024
Laid

as Robert

2024
2024
Kinds of Kindness

as Will / Neil / Morgue Nurse

2024
Puddysticks

as Peter

2024
Can

as The Boyfriend

2023
The Burial

as Hal Dockins

2023
Elemental

as Wade (voice)

2022
2022
Archive 81

as Dan Turner

2020
Black Box

as Nolan

2020
Uncorked

as Elijah

2020
Underwater

as Rodrigo Nagenda

2019
Oh Jerome, No

as Jerome

2019
Cake

as Jerome

2019
Watch Room

as Nathan

2018
The Front Runner

as A.J. Parker

2017
Marcians

as Self

2017
Unicorn Store

as Virgil

2017
Patti Cake$

as Basterd

2017
The Circle

as Jared

2016
The Get Down

as Grandmaster Flash

2016
Oh Jerome, No

as Jerome

2015
Experimenter

as Crying Man (uncredited)

2014
Madam Secretary

as Staffer