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.
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Up Against It
Havoc
The King of Kings
Seaweed Stories
Big George Foreman
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
Prophets of Change
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Respect
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Finding Steve McQueen
City of Lies
Burden
How It Ends
Sorry to Bother You
Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace
Black Panther
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
The Forgiven
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
I Am You
Arrival
Southpaw
Dope
Sewing Hope
Taken 3
Food Chains
Two Men in Town
Zulu
Black Nativity
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
Out of the Furnace
Mysteries of the Unseen World
The Butler
Pawn
The Last Stand
Repentance
Freelancers
Rising from Ashes
A Dark Truth
Catch.44
A Man's Story
Serving Life
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
The Experiment
Repo Men
Our Family Wedding
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
Hurricane Season
My Own Love Song
Lullaby for Pi
Where the Wild Things Are
Winged Creatures
Powder Blue
Street Kings
Vantage Point
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
The Great Debaters
Even Money
The Air I Breathe
Ripple Effect
Before the Music Dies
The Last King of Scotland
Everyone's Hero
The Marsh
Odyssey in Rome
American Gun
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Deacons for Defense
Mary
A Little Trip to Heaven
The Misbehavers
Shooting 'Panic Room'- MAMaking of Phone Booth
Phone Booth
Panic Room
Feast of All Saints
The Fourth Angel- GHGhost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
The Follow
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
Green Dragon
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Battlefield Earth
The Paperboy
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Witness Protection
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Light It Up
Body Count
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Phenomenon
Mr. Holland's Opus
Species
Smoke
Prêt-à-Porter
The Enemy Within
Blown Away
Jason's Lyric
Bank Robber
Lush Life
Last Light
Body Snatchers
Consenting Adults
The Crying Game
Article 99
A Rage in Harlem
Diary of a Hitman
Criminal Justice
Downtown
Johnny Handsome
Bird
Bloodsport
Good Morning, Vietnam
Stakeout
Hands of a Stranger
Platoon
The Color of Money
Vision Quest- THThe Grand Baby
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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