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