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Name
Forest Whitaker

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1961-07-15 (65 years old)

Place of Birth
Longview, Texas, USA

Biography

Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, director, and activist. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

After making his film debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Whitaker went on to earn a reputation for intensive character study work for films, such as Platoon (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bird (1988), The Crying Game (1992), Phenomenon (1996), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), The Great Debaters (2007), The Butler (2013), Arrival (2016), and Respect (2021). He has also appeared in blockbusters, such as Panic Room (2002), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Saw Gerrera, and Black Panther (2018) as Zuri. For his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the British historical drama film The Last King of Scotland (2006), Whitaker won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Whitaker made his directorial debut with the television film Strapped (1993), and directed the films Waiting to Exhale (1995), Hope Floats (1998), and First Daughter (2004).

Apart from his film career, Whitaker is also known for his humanitarian work and activism. In 2011, he was inducted as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, later receiving a promotion to Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, and serves as the CEO of Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI), a non-profit outreach program.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1994 Blown Away as Anthony Franklin
1989 Johnny Handsome as Dr. Steven Fisher
2008 Street Kings as Captain Jack Wander
1995 Smoke as Cyrus Cole
2006 The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
1987 Good Morning, Vietnam as Edward Garlick
2003 Phone Booth as Captain Ramey
1994 Prêt-à-Porter as Cy Bianco
2002 Panic Room as Burnham
1993 Body Snatchers as Major Collins
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai as Ghost Dog
2000 Battlefield Earth as Ker
2006 The Marsh as Geoffrey Hunt
1994 Jason's Lyric as Maddog
1998 Body Count as Crane
1992 The Crying Game as Jody
1988 Bloodsport as Rawlins
2008 Vantage Point as Howard Lewis
2010 Repo Men as Jake
1988 Bird as Charlie 'Bird' Parker
1986 The Color of Money as Amos
2010 Hurricane Season as Al Collins
1992 Article 99 as Dr. Sid Handleman
1996 Phenomenon as Nate Pope
1995 Species as Dan Smithson, Empath
1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Charles Jefferson
2010 Our Family Wedding as Brad Boyd
2007 The Air I Breathe as Happiness
2001 Green Dragon as Addie
2007 The Great Debaters as Dr. James Farmer Sr.
1991 A Rage in Harlem as Jackson
1996 Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault as Mr. Rucker
2005 A Little Trip to Heaven as Abe Holt
1990 Downtown as Dennis Curren
2010 The Experiment as Barris
2005 American Gun as Carter
2010 My Own Love Song as Joey
1992 Consenting Adults as David Duttonville
2009 Winged Creatures as Charlie Archenault
2010 Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life as Lion
2009 Where the Wild Things Are as Ira (voice)
2005 Mary as Ted Younger
2005 Deacons for Defense as Marcus Clay
2010 Lullaby for Pi as George
2009 Crips and Bloods: Made in America as Narrator
2009 Powder Blue as Charlie
1999 Light It Up as Officer Dante Jackson
2007 Even Money as Clyde Snow
1991 Diary of a Hitman as Dekker
2014 Repentance as Angel
1993 Last Light as Fred Whitmore
1993 Lush Life as Buddy Chester
2001 Feast of All Saints as Daguerreotypist Picard
2011 Catch.44 as Ronny
2001 The Fourth Angel as Agent Jules Bernard
2013 The Last Stand as Agent John Bannister
1994 The Enemy Within as Col. MacKenzie Casey
1999 Witness Protection as Steven Beck
2011 Serving Life as Narrator (voice)
2012 Freelancers as Dennis Larue
2013 The Butler as Cecil Gaines
2012 A Dark Truth as Francisco Francis
2013 Out of the Furnace as Chief Wesley Barnes
2013 Pawn as Will
2013 Zulu as Ali Sokhela
2013 Black Nativity as Reverend Cornell Cobbs
2014 Two Men in Town as William Garnett
1990 Criminal Justice as Jessie Williams
2014 Taken 3 as Inspector Frank Dotzler
2023 Big George Foreman as Doc Broadus
2022 Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Saw Gerrera (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015 Southpaw as Titus 'Tick' Wills
2003 Making of Phone Booth as Self
2022 Prophets of Change as Narrator
2006 Everyone's Hero as Lonnie Brewster (voice)
2016 Arrival as Colonel Weber
2004 The Misbehavers as Self
2015 Dope as The Narrator (voice)
2013 Mysteries of the Unseen World as Narrator
2005 Odyssey in Rome
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Saw Gerrera
1987 Stakeout as Det. Jack Pismo
2000 Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows as Self
2022 Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend as Self (archive footage)
2005 Jiminy Glick in Lalawood as Forest Whitaker
2001 The Follow as The Employer
Soon Sewing Hope as Narrator (voice)
2025 The King of Kings as Peter (voice)
2010 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift as (archive footage)
1987 Hands of a Stranger as Sergeant Delaney
2016 I Am You as Narrator (voice)
1993 Bank Robber as Officer Battle
2018 Black Panther as Zuri
2018 Burden as Reverend Kennedy
2019 Finding Steve McQueen as Howard Lambert
2018 City of Lies as Jack Jackson
2007 Ripple Effect as Philip
1982 Tag: The Assassination Game as Gowdy's Bodyguard
2018 The Forgiven as Desmond Tutu
2018 Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace as Narrator (voice)
2001 A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' as Self
2011 A Man's Story as Self
1986 Platoon as Big Harold
2018 How It Ends as Tom
2018 Sorry to Bother You as First Equisapien / Demarius
2017 The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' as Self
2000 The Paperboy as Narrator
1985 Vision Quest as Balldozer
2004 First Daughter as Narrator (voice)
2021 Respect as C. L. Franklin
2020 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey as Jeronicus Jangle
2004 Shooting 'Panic Room' as Self
2006 Before the Music Dies as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017 Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' as Self
2001 Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
1995 Mr. Holland's Opus as Bobby Tidd as an adult (uncredited)
2020 Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King as Self
2013 Rising from Ashes as Narrator
2014 Food Chains
2020 Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times as Self
1994 Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso as Self
2025 Havoc as Lawrence Beaumont
2024 Seaweed Stories as Self - Narrator (voice)
2000 Four Dogs Playing Poker as Mr. Ellington
2027 Up Against It
2013 Making a Scene | 11 Performances
1983 The Grand Baby
2026 Bring Me the Horizon: L.I.V.E. in São Paulo as Self (archive footage)

1994 Inside the Actors Studio ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2002 The Shield ( 13 episodes ) as Jon Kavanaugh
2005 American Dad! ( 3 episodes ) as Turlington (voice)
1952 Today ( 1 episode ) as Self
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode ) as Self
1978 Diff'rent Strokes ( 1 episode )
1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode )
1981 Hill Street Blues ( 1 episode )
2002 American Idol ( 1 episode ) as Self
2005 Criminal Minds ( 1 episode ) as Sam Cooper
1999 The Early Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1982 Cagney & Lacey ( 1 episode ) as Night Manager
2016 Star Wars: Go Rogue ( 4 episodes ) as Saw Gerrera (voice)
1994 ER ( 4 episodes ) as Curtis Ames
1999 Where Are They Now? ( 1 episode ) as Self
2002 The Twilight Zone ( 43 episodes ) as Self - Host
2023 Extrapolations ( 1 episode ) as Auggie Bolo
2011 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior ( 13 episodes ) as Sam Cooper
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
1985 North and South ( 11 episodes ) as Cuffey
2002 Live from E! ( 1 episode ) as Self
1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( 1 episode ) as Self
1985 Amazing Stories ( 1 episode ) as Jerry
2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
2016 Roots ( 4 episodes ) as Fiddler
2001 The Hire ( 1 episode ) as The Employer
2022 Cannes Festival ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2015 Empire ( 11 episodes ) as Eddie Barker
2014 Star Wars Rebels ( 4 episodes ) as Saw Gerrera (voice)
2019 Godfather of Harlem ( 40 episodes ) as Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson
2024 The Emperor of Ocean Park ( 10 episodes ) as Judge Oliver Garland
2022 Andor ( 5 episodes ) as Saw Gerrera
1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
2021 Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy ( 9 episodes ) as Self
2024 My Generation ( 1 episode ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020 By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2022 The Jennifer Hudson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
2024 Hollywood Black ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2017 Steve ( 1 episode ) as Self

Name
Forest Whitaker

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1961-07-15 (65 years old)

Place of Birth
Longview, Texas, USA

Biography

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Biography

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Name
Forest Whitaker

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1961-07-15 (65 years old)

Place of Birth
Longview, Texas, USA