The Oscar nominee has taken to Instagram to announce that he and Amatus Sami-Karim have welcomed their first child.
- Feb 25, 2017
AceShowbiz - It's a girl for Mahershala Ali and his wife Amatus Sami-Karim. The new dad has taken to his Instagram account to announce that his spouse gave birth to their daughter on Wednesday, February 22. The baby is the first child for the couple.
Along with the announcement, Ali shared an adorable snap of his wife holding and kissing the newborn baby. The "Moonlight" actor also revealed the name of the baby girl in the Friday, February 24 post. "Bari (Bar-ee) Najma Ali," so he wrote.
The good news comes just days before Ali is expected to attend Sunday's Academy Awards, where he is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Barry Jenkins-directed "Moonlight". The 43-year-old actor joked about the possibility of his child being born during the award-giving show while appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last month.
"I'm hosting the show, and you do what you wanna do, but it'd be really great for our ratings if your wife had the baby during the Oscars," Jimmy Kimmel hilariously told Ali. "During the monologue would be ideal." Ali responded, "That'd be good."
"And then you name the baby Oscar, you got no problems going forward," added the 49-year-old host, who has his own second child on the way. "I think they would give little Oscar and Oscar for that."
