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Forest Whitaker
- Name: Forest Whitaker
- Birthday: 1961-07-15
- Also known as: Forest Steven Whitaker III,Forest Steven Whitaker,פורסט ויטאקר
- Place of birth: Longview, Texas, USA
- Popularity: 3.6588
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
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Havoc as Lawrence Beaumont | 2025-04-25 |
| The King of Kings as Peter (voice) | 2025-04-07 |
| Seaweed Stories as Narrator (voice) | 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 |
| Finding Steve McQueen as Howard Lambert | 2019-03-15 |
| City of Lies as Jack Jackson | 2018-09-06 |
| Burden as Reverend Kennedy | 2018-08-05 |
| 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 |
| Making a Scene | 11 Performances | 2013-11-25 |
| Out of the Furnace as Chief Wesley Barnes | 2013-11-12 |
| 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 | 2010-02-09 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin | 2006-09-27 |
| Everyone's Hero as Lonnie Brewster (voice) | 2006-08-04 |
| The Marsh as Geoffrey Hunt | 2006-05-18 |
| 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 |
| Deacons for Defense as Marcus Clay | 2005-04-05 |
| The Misbehavers as Self | 2004-12-04 |
| First Daughter as Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-24 |
| Shooting 'Panic Room' as Self | 2004-03-30 |
| Making of Phone Booth as Self | 2003-03-25 |
| Phone Booth as Captain Ramey | 2003-01-06 |
| 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 |
| Four Dogs Playing Poker as Mr. Ellington | 2000-06-06 |
| 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 as an 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 |
| The Enemy Within as Col. MacKenzie Casey | 1994-08-24 |
| Blown Away as Anthony Franklin | 1994-07-01 |
| Jason's Lyric as Maddog | 1994-05-22 |
| 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 |
| The Grand Baby | 1983-11-02 |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Charles Jefferson | 1982-08-13 |
| Tag: The Assassination Game as Gowdy's Bodyguard | 1982-04-20 |
