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) | 2025-04-20 |
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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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Burden | Reverend Kennedy | 2020-02-28 |
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Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey | Jeronicus Jangle | 2020-11-06 |
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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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City of Lies | Jack Jackson | 2018-09-06 |
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Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace | Narrator (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
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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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The Forgiven | Desmond Tutu | 2018-03-09 |
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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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I Am You | Narrator (voice) | 2016-12-12 |
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Saw Gerrera | 2016-12-14 |
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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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Taken 3 | Inspector Frank Dotzler | 2014-12-16 |
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La Voie de l‘ennemi | William Garnett | 2014-05-07 |
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Repentance | Angel | 2014-02-28 |
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Food Chains | 2014-04-26 | |
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The Butler | Cecil Gaines | 2013-08-16 |
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Pawn | Will | 2013-04-23 |
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The Last Stand | Agent John Bannister | 2013-01-12 |
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Out of the Furnace | Chief Wesley Barnes | 2013-11-09 |
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Rising from Ashes | Narrator | 2013-08-02 |
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Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
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The Making of 'Making a Scene' | Self | 2013-11-25 |
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Mysteries of the Unseen World | Narrator | 2013-11-01 |
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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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A Man's Story | Self | 2011-10-08 |
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Serving Life | Narrator (voice) | 2011-07-28 |
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Repo Men | Jake | 2010-03-18 |
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Lullaby for Pi | George | 2010-10-11 |
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift | (archive footage) | 2010-08-03 |
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Our Family Wedding | Brad Boyd | 2010-03-12 |
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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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Powder Blue | Charlie | 2009-05-08 |
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Where the Wild Things Are | Ira (voice) | 2009-10-16 |
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Hurricane Season | Al Collins | 2009-12-08 |
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Winged Creatures | Charlie Archenault | 2009-07-08 |
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America | Narrator | 2009-08-14 |
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Mon Clown | Self (archive footage) | 2008-03-14 |
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Street Kings | Captain Jack Wander | 2008-04-10 |
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Chasseurs de dragons | Lian-Chu (voice) | 2008-03-19 |
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Vantage Point | Howard Lewis | 2008-02-01 |
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The Air I Breathe | Happiness | 2007-02-07 |
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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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Ripple Effect | Philip | 2007-06-21 |
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The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin | 2006-01-12 |
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Before the Music Dies | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2006-11-02 |
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The Marsh | Geoffrey Hunt | 2006-05-18 |
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Everyone's Hero | Lonnie Brewster (voice) | 2006-08-04 |
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Odyssey in Rome | 2005-09-30 | |
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Mary | Ted Younger | 2005-11-18 |
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American Gun | Carter | 2005-09-15 |
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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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First Daughter | Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-24 |
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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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Phone Booth | Captain Ramey | 2003-04-04 |
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Making of Phone Booth | Self | 2003-03-25 |
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Deacons for Defense | Marcus Clay | 2003-01-01 |
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Panic Room | Burnham | 2002-03-29 |
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The Fourth Angel | Agent Jules Bernard | 2001-08-15 |
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Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai | 2001-08-14 | |
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Feast of All Saints | Daguerreotypist Picard | 2001-11-11 |
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A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' | Self | 2001-01-01 |
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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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Battlefield Earth | Ker | 2000-05-12 |
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The Paperboy | Narrator | 2000-01-01 |
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Self | 2000-09-27 |
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Light It Up | Officer Dante Jackson | 1999-11-04 |
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Witness Protection | Steven Beck | 1999-12-11 |
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Ghost Dog | 1999-10-06 |
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Body Count | Crane | 1998-04-28 |
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault | Mr. Rucker | 1996-11-23 |
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Phenomenon | Nate Pope | 1996-07-05 |
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Mr. Holland's Opus | Bobby Tidd - Adult (uncredited) | 1995-12-29 |
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Species | Dan Smithson, Empath | 1995-07-07 |
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Smoke | Cyrus Cole | 1995-06-09 |
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Jason's Lyric | Maddog | 1994-09-28 |
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Prêt-à-Porter | Cy Bianco | 1994-12-23 |
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Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | Self | 1994-12-11 |
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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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Bank Robber | Officer Battle | 1993-12-03 |
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Lush Life | Buddy Chester | 1993-10-01 |
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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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Article 99 | Dr. Sid Handleman | 1992-03-13 |
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Consenting Adults | David Duttonville | 1992-10-16 |
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The Crying Game | Jody | 1992-09-02 |
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Diary of a Hitman | Dekker | 1991-11-20 |
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A Rage in Harlem | Jackson | 1991-05-03 |
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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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Bloodsport | Rawlins | 1988-02-26 |
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Bird | Charlie 'Bird' Parker | 1988-06-01 |
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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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Platoon | Big Harold | 1986-12-19 |
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The Color of Money | Amos | 1986-10-17 |
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Vision Quest | Balldozer | 1985-02-15 |
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Tag: The Assassination Game | Gowdy's Bodyguard | 1982-04-20 |
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Charles Jefferson | 1982-08-13 |
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Sewing Hope | Narrator (voice) | |
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A Fall from Grace | ||
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