Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Longview, Texas, USA, 1961-07-15

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	Charles Jefferson	68
2	1986	The Color of Money	Amos	69
3	1987	Hands of a Stranger	Sergeant Delaney	48
4	1987	Stakeout	Det. Jack Pismo	65
5	1990	Criminal Justice	Jessie Williams	64
6	1993	Bank Robber	Officer Battle	41
7	2000	Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows	Self	71
8	2001	The Follow	The Employer	68
9	2003	Making of Phone Booth	Self	80
10	2004	The Misbehavers	Self	0
11	2005	Jiminy Glick in Lalawood	Forest Whitaker	42
12	2005	Odyssey in Rome		0
13	2006	Everyone's Hero	Lonnie Brewster (voice)	60
14	2008	Mon Clown	Self (archive footage)	70
15	2010	2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift	(archive footage)	64
16	2013	Mysteries of the Unseen World	Narrator	72
17	2013	Making a Scene	Man	54
18	2014	Two Men in Town	William Garnett	55
19	2014	Taken 3	Inspector Frank Dotzler	63
20	2015	Southpaw	Titus 'Tick' Wills	74
21	2015	Dope	The Narrator (voice)	71
22	2016	Arrival	Colonel Weber	76
23	2016	I Am You	Narrator (voice)	35
24	2016	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Saw Gerrera	75
25	2018	Black Panther	Zuri	74
26	2018	Burden	Reverend Kennedy	62
27	2018	City of Lies	Jack Jackson	64
28	2019	Finding Steve McQueen	Howard Lambert	61
29	2022	Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look	Saw Gerrera (archive footage) (uncredited)	73
30	2022	Prophets of Change	Narrator	0
31	2022	Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend	Self (archive footage)	74
32	2023	Big George Foreman	Doc Broadus	75
33	2023	to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour	Ghost Dog (archive footage)	0
34		Sewing Hope	Narrator (voice)	0
35	1982	Tag: The Assassination Game	Gowdy's Bodyguard	53
36	1985	Vision Quest	Balldozer	63
37	1986	Platoon	Big Harold	77
38	1987	Good Morning, Vietnam	Edward Garlick	73
39	1988	Bloodsport	Rawlins	70
40	1988	Bird	Charlie 'Bird' Parker	68
41	1989	Johnny Handsome	Dr. Steven Fisher	63
42	1990	Downtown	Dennis Curren	57
43	1991	A Rage in Harlem	Jackson	55
44	1991	Diary of a Hitman	Dekker	52
45	1992	Article 99	Dr. Sid Handleman	61
46	1992	The Crying Game	Jody	68
47	1992	Consenting Adults	David Duttonville	54
48	1993	Body Snatchers	Major Collins	61
49	1993	Last Light	Fred Whitmore	60
50	1993	Lush Life	Buddy Chester	72
51	1994	Blown Away	Anthony Franklin	62
52	1994	The Enemy Within	Col. MacKenzie Casey	57
53	1994	Jason's Lyric	Maddog	68
54	1994	Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso	Self	74
55	1994	Prêt-à-Porter	Cy Bianco	52
56	1995	Smoke	Cyrus Cole	72
57	1995	Species	Dan Smithson, Empath	60
58	1995	Mr. Holland's Opus	Bobby Tidd as an adult (uncredited)	70
59	1996	Phenomenon	Nate Pope	65
60	1996	Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault	Mr. Rucker	71
61	1998	Body Count	Crane	54
62	1999	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	Ghost Dog	73
63	1999	Light It Up	Officer Dante Jackson	66
64	1999	Witness Protection	Steven Beck	64
65	2000	The Paperboy	Narrator	80
66	2000	Battlefield Earth	Ker	33
67	2000	Four Dogs Playing Poker	Mr. Ellington	36
68	2001	A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'	Self	85
69	2001	Green Dragon	Addie	60
70	2001	Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai		20
71	2001	The Fourth Angel	Agent Jules Bernard	52
72	2001	Feast of All Saints	Daguerreotypist Picard	47
73	2002	Panic Room	Burnham	68
74	2003	Phone Booth	Captain Ramey	69
75	2004	Shooting 'Panic Room'	Self	60
76	2004	First Daughter	Narrator (voice)	62
77	2005	Deacons for Defense	Marcus Clay	62
78	2005	American Gun	Carter	57
79	2005	Mary	Ted Younger	57
80	2005	A Little Trip to Heaven	Abe Holt	54
81	2006	The Last King of Scotland	Idi Amin	74
82	2006	The Marsh	Geoffrey Hunt	50
83	2006	Before the Music Dies	Self - Narrator (voice)	70
84	2007	The Air I Breathe	Happiness	63
85	2007	Even Money	Clyde Snow	55
86	2007	Ripple Effect	Philip	50
87	2007	The Great Debaters	Dr. James Farmer Sr.	73
88	2008	Vantage Point	Howard Lewis	64
89	2008	Street Kings	Captain Jack Wander	66
90	2009	Powder Blue	Charlie	61
91	2009	Winged Creatures	Charlie Archenault	59
92	2009	Crips and Bloods: Made in America	Narrator	66
93	2009	Where the Wild Things Are	Ira (voice)	65
94	2009	Hurricane Season	Al Collins	67
95	2010	Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life	Lion	71
96	2010	Our Family Wedding	Brad Boyd	56
97	2010	Repo Men	Jake	63
98	2010	My Own Love Song	Joey	62
99	2010	The Experiment	Barris	64
100	2010	Lullaby for Pi	George	68
101	2011	Serving Life	Narrator (voice)	53
102	2011	A Man's Story	Self	69
103	2011	Catch.44	Ronny	51
104	2012	Freelancers	Dennis Larue	50
105	2012	A Dark Truth	Francisco Francis	56
106	2013	The Last Stand	Agent John Bannister	61
107	2013	Pawn	Will	55
108	2013	Rising from Ashes	Narrator	65
109	2013	The Butler	Cecil Gaines	73
110	2013	Out of the Furnace	Chief Wesley Barnes	66
111	2013	The Making of 'Making a Scene'	Self	65
112	2013	Black Nativity	Reverend Cornell Cobbs	50
113	2013	Zulu	Ali Sokhela	67
114	2014	Repentance	Angel	47
115	2014	Food Chains		70
116	2017	Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'	Self	70
117	2017	The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'	Self	56
118	2018	The Forgiven	Desmond Tutu	61
119	2018	Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace	Narrator (voice)	40
120	2018	Sorry to Bother You	First Equisapien / Demarius	68
121	2018	How It Ends	Tom	53
122	2020	A Fall from Grace		0
123	2020	Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King	Self	81
124	2020	Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times	Self	100
125	2020	Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey	Jeronicus Jangle	66
126	2021	Respect	C. L. Franklin	68
127	2024	Seaweed Stories	Narrator (voice)	0
128	2025	The King of Kings	Peter (voice)	86
129	2025	Havoc	Lawrence Beaumont	65

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Today	Self	58
2	1953	The Oscars	Self - Presenter	71
3	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
4	1978	Diff'rent Strokes		70
5	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
6	1982	Cagney & Lacey	Night Manager	69
7	1985	Amazing Stories	Jerry	75
8	1985	North and South	Cuffey	74
9	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark		56
10	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
11	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	75
12	1994	ER	Curtis Ames	78
13	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
14	1997	The View	Self	45
15	1999	Where Are They Now?	Self	75
16	1999	The Early Show	Self	57
17	2001	The Hire	The Employer	76
18	2002	E! Live from the Red Carpet	Self	32
19	2002	The Shield	Jon Kavanaugh	81
20	2002	American Idol	Self	51
21	2002	The Twilight Zone	Self - Host	72
22	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!		55
23	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
24	2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self	68
25	2005	American Dad!	Turlington (voice)	70
26	2005	Criminal Minds	Sam Cooper	83
27	2011	Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior	Sam Cooper	71
28	2014	Star Wars Rebels	Saw Gerrera (voice)	77
29	2015	Empire	Eddie Barker	72
30	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
31	2016	Roots	Fiddler	69
32	2016	Star Wars: Go Rogue	Saw Gerrera (voice)	67
33	2019	Godfather of Harlem	Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson	81
34	2020	By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem	Himself	33
35	2021	Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy	Self	70
36	2022	Cannes Festival	Self - Guest	0
37	2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show	Self	62
38	2022	Andor	Saw Gerrera	83
39	2023	Extrapolations	Auggie Bolo	60
40	2024	Emperor of Ocean Park	Oliver Garland	66
41	2024	My Generation	Narrator	0

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