Biography
Mamoudou Athie is an American actor. Born in Mauritania in 1988, he moved to the United States as an infant and grew up in Maryland. He trained at the William Esper Studio and graduated with an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 2014.
Athie has appeared in supporting roles in films including The Circle (2017), Unicorn Store (2017), The Front Runner (2018), Underwater (2020), Jurassic World Dominion (2022), The Burial (2023) and Kinds of Kindness (2024). He voiced Wade in the Pixar film Elemental (2023) and is set to appear as Mike in The Drama (2026). On television he has had roles in The Get Down (2016–2017), Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019) and the anthology series Cake (2019).
He received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for his work in Cake.
