Mamoudou Athie

Mamoudou Athie ( ; born 1988) and 28 in November 2017 place his year of birth in 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).

Athie began his career in theater—making his Broadway debut in 2015 in ''The Mystery of Love and Sex'', he subsequently had supporting roles in films ''Patti Cake$'' (2017), ''The Circle'' (2017), ''Unicorn Store'' (2017), ''The Front Runner'' (2018), ''Underwater'' (2020), ''Jurassic World Dominion'' (2022), and ''The Burial'' (2023), and in the television series ''The Get Down'' (2016–2017), ''The Detour'' (2017), ''Sorry for Your Loss'' (2018–2019), and the FXX anthology ''Cake'' (2019). 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''. Provided by Wikipedia