Forest Whitaker
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Forest Whitaker

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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.

Films Featuring Forest Whitaker

Blown Away

19946.2

Johnny Handsome

19896.4

Street Kings

20086.7

Smoke

19957.2

The Last King of Scotland

20067.4

Good Morning, Vietnam

19877.3

Phone Booth

20036.9

Prêt-à-Porter

19945.2

Panic Room

20026.8

Body Snatchers

19936.2

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

19997.3

Battlefield Earth

20003.3

The Marsh

20065.1

Jason's Lyric

19946.7

Body Count

19985.5

The Crying Game

19926.8

Bloodsport

19887.1

Vantage Point

20086.4

Repo Men

20106.3

Bird

19886.9

The Color of Money

19866.9

Hurricane Season

20106.6

Article 99

19926.2

Phenomenon

19966.5

Species

19956.0

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

19826.8

Our Family Wedding

20105.6

The Air I Breathe

20076.3

Green Dragon

20016.2

The Great Debaters

20077.3

A Rage in Harlem

19915.4

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

19967.1

A Little Trip to Heaven

20055.4

Downtown

19905.7

The Experiment

20106.4

American Gun

20055.7

My Own Love Song

20106.2

Consenting Adults

19925.4

Winged Creatures

20095.9

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

20107.1

Where the Wild Things Are

20096.5

Mary

20055.7

Deacons for Defense

20056.4

Lullaby for Pi

20106.8

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

20096.7

Powder Blue

20096.1

Light It Up

19996.6

Even Money

20075.6

Diary of a Hitman

19915.4

Repentance

20144.7

Last Light

19936.0

Lush Life

19937.2

Feast of All Saints

20014.8

Catch.44

20115.0

The Fourth Angel

20015.3

The Last Stand

20136.1

The Enemy Within

19945.8

Witness Protection

19996.3

Serving Life

20115.3

Freelancers

20125.1

The Butler

20137.3

A Dark Truth

20125.5

Out of the Furnace

20136.6

Pawn

20135.5

Zulu

20136.7

Black Nativity

20135.2

Two Men in Town

20145.5

Criminal Justice

19906.0

Taken 3

20146.3

Big George Foreman

20237.6

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

20227.5

Southpaw

20157.4

Making of Phone Booth

Making of Phone Booth

20038.0

Prophets of Change

2022

Everyone's Hero

20066.1

Arrival

20167.6

The Misbehavers

The Misbehavers

200410.0

Dope

20157.0

Mysteries of the Unseen World

20137.2

Odyssey in Rome

20057.0

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

20167.5

Stakeout

19876.5

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

20007.3

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

20227.2

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

20054.4

The Follow

20016.9

Sewing Hope

Sewing Hope

The King of Kings

20258.3

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

20106.1

Hands of a Stranger

19874.9

I Am You

I Am You

20163.5

Bank Robber

19934.4

Black Panther

20187.4

Burden

20186.1

Finding Steve McQueen

20196.1

City of Lies

20186.3

Ripple Effect

20075.4

Tag: The Assassination Game

19825.5

The Forgiven

20186.1

Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace

20184.0

A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'

20018.5

A Man's Story

20116.9

Platoon

19867.7

How It Ends

20185.3

Sorry to Bother You

20186.8

The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'

20176.1

The Paperboy

20008.0

Vision Quest

19856.4

First Daughter

20046.2

Respect

20216.8

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

20206.5

Shooting 'Panic Room'

20047.0

Before the Music Dies

20067.0

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'

20177.0

Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai

Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai

20012.0

Mr. Holland's Opus

19957.0

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

20208.1

Rising from Ashes

20136.5

Food Chains

20147.0

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

202010.0

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

19947.4

Havoc

20256.4

Seaweed Stories

2024

Four Dogs Playing Poker

20004.0

Up Against It

Up Against It

2027

Making a Scene | 11 Performances

2013

The Grand Baby

The Grand Baby

19835.5

Bring Me the Horizon: L.I.V.E. in São Paulo

20268.8