Oakland-born Mahershala Ali buys East Bay home for $1.2M

Academy award-winning actor Mahershala Ali is returning to the East Bay.

Ali, born in Oakland and raised in Hayward, bought the North Hills home for almost $1.2 million, above its $1 million asking price, Dirt.com reported. Ali and his wife, producer and actress Amatus Sami-Karim, also own homes in Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

Best known for his performances in “Moonlight” and “Green Book,” both of which earned him Oscars for Best Supporting Actor, Ali’s breakout role came when he was cast on Netflix’s “House of Cards.” Ali and his wife also won an Emmy for their work as executive producers on the HBO documentary “We are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland Martin Luther King Jr. Oratorical Fest.”

The power couple’s new home was built in the early 1960s. It has four bedrooms and three bathrooms and 2,100 square feet of living space with hardwood and tile floors, skylights and wood-paneled ceilings. The home also has an attached two-car garage.

A fireside living room framed in walls of windows is on the main floor along with a small dining area and eat-in kitchen. The main level also has three bedrooms including the primary suite, which has an en-suite bathroom.

The lower level has another bedroom with an en-suite bathroom and another full kitchen. A family room with a red brick fireplace has sliding glass doors that open out onto a balcony that overlooks the almost quarter-acre grounds.

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[Dirt] — Victoria Pruitt