1961-07-15 Longview, Texas, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Forest Whitaker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The King of Kings | Peter (voice) | 2025-04-07 |
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Andor Season 2 | A Special Look | Saw Gerrera (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2025-03-05 |
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Havoc | Lawrence Beaumont | 2025-04-25 |
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Seaweed Stories | Narrator | 2024-10-05 |
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to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour | Ghost Dog (archive footage) | 2023-11-26 |
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Big George Foreman | Doc Broadus | 2023-04-27 |
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Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende | Self (archive footage) | 2022-11-13 |
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Prophets of Change | Narrator | 2022-10-12 |
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Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look | Saw Gerrera (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2022-09-08 |
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Respect | C. L. Franklin | 2021-08-12 |
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Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey | Jeronicus Jangle | 2020-11-06 |
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Burden | Reverend Kennedy | 2020-02-28 |
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A Fall from Grace | 2020-01-17 | |
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Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times | Self | 2020-09-19 |
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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self | 2020-08-30 |
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Finding Steve McQueen | Howard Lambert | 2019-03-15 |
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Black Panther | Zuri | 2018-02-13 |
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Sorry to Bother You | First Equisapien / Demarius | 2018-07-06 |
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How It Ends | Tom | 2018-07-13 |
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City of Lies | Jack Jackson | 2018-09-06 |
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The Forgiven | Desmond Tutu | 2018-03-09 |
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Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace | Narrator (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
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The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' | Self | 2017-04-04 |
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Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival' | Self | 2017-02-14 |
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Arrival | Colonel Weber | 2016-11-10 |
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Saw Gerrera | 2016-12-14 |
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I Am You | Narrator (voice) | 2016-12-12 |
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Southpaw | Titus 'Tick' Wills | 2015-03-24 |
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Dope | The Narrator (voice) | 2015-06-19 |
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Repentance | Angel | 2014-02-28 |
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La Voie de l‘ennemi | William Garnett | 2014-05-07 |
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Taken 3 | Inspector Frank Dotzler | 2014-12-16 |
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Food Chains | 2014-04-26 | |
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Pawn | Will | 2013-04-23 |
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Out of the Furnace | Chief Wesley Barnes | 2013-11-12 |
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The Last Stand | Agent John Bannister | 2013-01-12 |
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The Butler | Cecil Gaines | 2013-08-16 |
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Mysteries of the Unseen World | Narrator | 2013-11-01 |
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The Making of 'Making a Scene' | Self | 2013-11-25 |
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Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
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Rising from Ashes | Narrator | 2013-08-02 |
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Black Nativity | Reverend Cornell Cobbs | 2013-11-27 |
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Zulu | Ali Sokhela | 2013-12-04 |
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Freelancers | Dennis Larue | 2012-08-10 |
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A Dark Truth | Francisco Francis | 2012-11-29 |
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Catch.44 | Ronny | 2011-12-08 |
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Serving Life | Narrator (voice) | 2011-07-28 |
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A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift | (archive footage) | 2010-08-03 |
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Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life | Lion | 2010-03-02 |
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The Experiment | Barris | 2010-07-15 |
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My Own Love Song | Joey | 2010-04-07 |
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Our Family Wedding | Brad Boyd | 2010-03-12 |
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Lullaby for Pi | George | 2010-10-11 |
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Repo Men | Jake | 2010-03-18 |
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Hurricane Season | Al Collins | 2009-12-08 |
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Powder Blue | Charlie | 2009-05-08 |
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America | Narrator | 2009-08-14 |
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Where the Wild Things Are | Ira (voice) | 2009-10-16 |
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Winged Creatures | Charlie Archenault | 2009-07-08 |
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Street Kings | Captain Jack Wander | 2008-04-10 |
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Vantage Point | Howard Lewis | 2008-02-01 |
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Mon Clown | Self (archive footage) | 2008-03-14 |
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Ripple Effect | Philip | 2007-06-21 |
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Even Money | Clyde Snow | 2007-03-13 |
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The Great Debaters | Dr. James Farmer Sr. | 2007-12-25 |
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The Air I Breathe | Happiness | 2007-02-07 |
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Everyone's Hero | Lonnie Brewster (voice) | 2006-08-04 |
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The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin | 2006-01-12 |
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The Marsh | Geoffrey Hunt | 2006-05-18 |
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Before the Music Dies | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2006-11-02 |
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Odyssey in Rome | 2005-09-30 | |
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Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Forest Whitaker | 2005-05-08 |
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A Little Trip to Heaven | Abe Holt | 2005-12-26 |
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Deacons for Defense | Marcus Clay | 2005-04-05 |
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American Gun | Carter | 2005-09-15 |
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Mary | Ted Younger | 2005-11-18 |
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Shooting 'Panic Room' | Self | 2004-03-30 |
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The Misbehavers | Self | 2004-12-04 |
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First Daughter | Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-24 |
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Making of Phone Booth | Self | 2003-03-25 |
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Phone Booth | Captain Ramey | 2003-04-04 |
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Panic Room | Burnham | 2002-03-29 |
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Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai | 2001-08-14 | |
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The Fourth Angel | Agent Jules Bernard | 2001-08-15 |
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A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' | Self | 2001-01-01 |
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Feast of All Saints | Daguerreotypist Picard | 2001-11-11 |
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The Follow | The Employer | 2001-05-24 |
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Green Dragon | Addie | 2001-05-17 |
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Four Dogs Playing Poker | Mr. Ellington | 2000-06-06 |
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Self | 2000-09-27 |
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The Paperboy | Narrator | 2000-01-01 |
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Battlefield Earth | Ker | 2000-05-12 |
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Ghost Dog | 1999-10-06 |
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Witness Protection | Steven Beck | 1999-12-11 |
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Light It Up | Officer Dante Jackson | 1999-11-04 |
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Body Count | Crane | 1998-04-28 |
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Phenomenon | Nate Pope | 1996-07-05 |
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault | Mr. Rucker | 1996-11-23 |
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Mr. Holland's Opus | Bobby Tidd as an adult (uncredited) | 1995-12-29 |
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Smoke | Cyrus Cole | 1995-06-09 |
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Species | Dan Smithson, Empath | 1995-07-07 |
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Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | Self | 1994-12-11 |
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Prêt-à-Porter | Cy Bianco | 1994-12-23 |
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Jason's Lyric | Maddog | 1994-09-28 |
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The Enemy Within | Col. MacKenzie Casey | 1994-08-24 |
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Blown Away | Anthony Franklin | 1994-07-01 |
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Last Light | Fred Whitmore | 1993-08-22 |
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Body Snatchers | Major Collins | 1993-06-09 |
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Lush Life | Buddy Chester | 1993-10-01 |
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Bank Robber | Officer Battle | 1993-12-03 |
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The Crying Game | Jody | 1992-09-02 |
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Article 99 | Dr. Sid Handleman | 1992-03-13 |
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Consenting Adults | David Duttonville | 1992-10-16 |
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A Rage in Harlem | Jackson | 1991-05-03 |
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Diary of a Hitman | Dekker | 1991-11-20 |
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Downtown | Dennis Curren | 1990-01-12 |
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Criminal Justice | Jessie Williams | 1990-09-08 |
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Johnny Handsome | Dr. Steven Fisher | 1989-09-12 |
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Bird | Charlie 'Bird' Parker | 1988-06-01 |
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Bloodsport | Rawlins | 1988-02-26 |
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Good Morning, Vietnam | Edward Garlick | 1987-12-23 |
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Stakeout | Det. Jack Pismo | 1987-08-05 |
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Hands of a Stranger | Sergeant Delaney | 1987-05-10 |
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The Color of Money | Amos | 1986-10-17 |
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Platoon | Big Harold | 1986-12-19 |
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Vision Quest | Balldozer | 1985-02-15 |
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Charles Jefferson | 1982-08-13 |
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Tag: The Assassination Game | Gowdy's Bodyguard | 1982-04-20 |
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Sewing Hope | Narrator (voice) |
