Who Is Mahershala Alis Wife? All About Actress Amatus-Sami Karim [Video]

While Mahershala Ali solidified his place in Hollywood with his critically acclaimed performance in 2016’s Moonlight, he landed a spot in Amatus-Sami Karim’s life nearly 20 years earlier.

Ali and Karim met in 1997 as students at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. There, the actor was in graduate school studying acting while Karim was an undergraduate student at N.Y.U.’s Experimental Theatre Wing. It would be more than a decade before the pair finally connected as a romantic couple, but Karim had a major influence in Ali’s life and faith from the outset of their relationship.

Three years after they married, in 2016, Ali gushed about his wife on Slate’s Death, Sex & Money podcast, saying: “She’s extraordinarily intelligent, she’s about the right things, spiritually grounded, a beautiful person.”

In February 2017, just four days before Ali took home his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the couple welcomed …