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.
Blown Away
(Anthony Franklin)
Johnny Handsome
(Dr. Steven Fisher)
Street Kings
(Captain Jack Wander)
Smoke
(Cyrus Cole)
The Last King of Scotland
(Idi Amin)
Good Morning, Vietnam
(Edward Garlick)
Phone Booth
(Captain Ramey)
Prêt-à-Porter
(Cy Bianco)
Panic Room
(Burnham)
Body Snatchers
(Major Collins)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
(Ghost Dog)
Battlefield Earth
(Ker)
Jason's Lyric
(Maddog)
The Marsh
(Geoffrey Hunt)
Body Count
(Crane)
The Crying Game
(Jody)
Bloodsport
(Rawlins)
Vantage Point
(Howard Lewis)
Repo Men
(Jake)
Bird
(Charlie 'Bird' Parker)
The Color of Money
(Amos)
Hurricane Season
(Al Collins)
Article 99
(Dr. Sid Handleman)
Phenomenon
(Nate Pope)
Species
(Dan Smithson, Empath)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
(Charles Jefferson)
Our Family Wedding
(Brad Boyd)
The Air I Breathe
(Happiness)
Green Dragon
(Addie)
The Great Debaters
(Dr. James Farmer Sr.)
A Rage in Harlem
(Jackson)
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
(Mr. Rucker)
A Little Trip to Heaven
(Abe Holt)
Downtown
(Dennis Curren)
The Experiment
(Barris)
American Gun
(Carter)
My Own Love Song
(Joey)
Consenting Adults
(David Duttonville)
Winged Creatures
(Charlie Archenault)
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
(Lion)
Where the Wild Things Are
(Ira (voice))
Mary
(Ted Younger)
Deacons for Defense
(Marcus Clay)
Lullaby for Pi
(George)
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
(Narrator)
Powder Blue
(Charlie)
Light It Up
(Officer Dante Jackson)
Even Money
(Clyde Snow)
Diary of a Hitman
(Dekker)
Repentance
(Angel)
Last Light
(Fred Whitmore)
Lush Life
(Buddy Chester)
Feast of All Saints
(Daguerreotypist Picard)
Catch.44
(Ronny)
The Fourth Angel
(Agent Jules Bernard)
The Last Stand
(Agent John Bannister)
The Enemy Within
(Col. MacKenzie Casey)
Witness Protection
(Steven Beck)
Serving Life
(Narrator (voice))
Freelancers
(Dennis Larue)
The Butler
(Cecil Gaines)
A Dark Truth
(Francisco Francis)
Out of the Furnace
(Chief Wesley Barnes)
Pawn
(Will)
Zulu
(Ali Sokhela)
Black Nativity
(Reverend Cornell Cobbs)
Two Men in Town
(William Garnett)
Criminal Justice
(Jessie Williams)
Taken 3
(Inspector Frank Dotzler)
Big George Foreman
(Doc Broadus)
to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
(Ghost Dog (archive footage))
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
(Saw Gerrera (archive footage) (uncredited))
Southpaw
(Titus 'Tick' Wills)
Making of Phone Booth
(Self)
Prophets of Change
(Narrator)
Mon Clown
(Self (archive footage))
Everyone's Hero
(Lonnie Brewster (voice))
Dragon Hunters
(Lian-Chu (voice))
Arrival
(Colonel Weber)
Making a Scene
(Man)
The Misbehavers
(Self)
Dope
(The Narrator (voice))
Mysteries of the Unseen World
(Narrator)
Odyssey in Rome
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
(Saw Gerrera)
Stakeout
(Det. Jack Pismo)
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
(Self)
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
(Self (archive footage))
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
(Forest Whitaker)
The Follow
(The Employer)
Sewing Hope
(Narrator (voice))
The King of Kings
(Peter (voice))
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
(archival footage)
Hands of a Stranger
(Sergeant Delaney)
I Am You
(Narrator (voice))
Bank Robber
(Officer Battle)
Black Panther
(Zuri)
Burden
(Reverend Kennedy)
Finding Steve McQueen
(Howard Lambert)
City of Lies
(Jack Jackson)
Ripple Effect
(Philip)
Tag: The Assassination Game
(Gowdy's Bodyguard)
The Forgiven
(Desmond Tutu)
Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace
(Narrator (voice))
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
(Self)
A Man's Story
(Self)
Platoon
(Big Harold)
How It Ends
(Tom)
Sorry to Bother You
(First Equisapien / Demarius)
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
(Self)
The Paperboy
(Narrator)
Vision Quest
(Balldozer)
First Daughter
(Narrator (voice))
Respect
(C. L. Franklin)
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
(Jeronicus Jangle)
The Making of 'Making a Scene'
(Self)
Shooting 'Panic Room'
(Self)
Before the Music Dies
(Self - Narrator (voice))
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
(Self)
Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
Mr. Holland's Opus
(Bobby Tidd - Adult (uncredited))
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
(Self)
Rising from Ashes
(Narrator)
Food Chains
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
(Self)
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
(Self)
Havoc
A Fall from Grace
Inside the Actors Studio
(Self)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
(Self)
The Shield
(Jon Kavanaugh)
American Dad!
(Turlington (voice))
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Today
(Self)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Diff'rent Strokes
The View
(Self)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Hill Street Blues
Criminal Minds
(Sam Cooper)
American Idol
(Self)
The Early Show
(Self)
Cagney & Lacey
Star Wars: Go Rogue
(Saw Gerrera (voice))
ER
(Curtis Ames)
Where Are They Now?
(Self)
The Twilight Zone
(Self - Host)
Extrapolations
(Auggie Bolo)
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
(Sam Cooper)
Saturday Night Live
(Self - Host)
North and South
(Cuffey)
E! Live from the Red Carpet
(Self)
The Daily Show
(Self)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
(Self)
Amazing Stories
(Jerry)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
(Self)
Roots
(Fiddler)
The Hire
(The Employer)
Cannes Festival
(Self - Guest)
Empire
(Eddie Barker)
Star Wars Rebels
(Saw Gerrera (voice))
Godfather of Harlem
(Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson)
Emperor of Ocean Park
(Oliver Garland)
Star Wars: Andor
(Saw Gerrera)
The Oscars
(Self - Presenter)
Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy
(Self)
Waiting to Exhale
(Director)
Hope Floats
(Director)
Strapped
(Director)
First Daughter
(Director)
Dope
(Producer)
Serving Life
(Executive Producer)
Fruitvale Station
(Producer)
For the Sake of Peace
(Producer)
Powder Blue
(Producer)
A Little Off Mark
(Thanks)
Hope Floats
(Executive Music Producer)
Monte Carlo
(Executive Producer)
Door to Door
(Co-Executive Producer)
First Daughter
(Executive Producer)
Chasing Papi
(Producer)
Fancy Dance
(Executive Producer)
To Live and Die and Live
(Producer)
Roxanne Roxanne
(Producer)
Ripple Effect
(Executive Producer)
Sorry to Bother You
(Producer)
Songs My Brothers Taught Me
(Producer)
A Rage in Harlem
(Co-Producer)
Passing
(Producer)
A Kid from Coney Island
(Executive Producer)
American Gun
(Executive Producer)
Rising from Ashes
(Executive Producer)
Green Dragon
(Executive Producer)
Kassim the Dream
(Producer)
Devil's Pie: D'Angelo
(Producer)
Brick City
(Executive Producer)
Godfather of Harlem
(Executive Producer)
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
(Executive Producer)
Hollywood Black
(Executive Producer)