Forest Whitaker

Acting · 4.5 popularity

Age

Movies

128

Born: July 15, 1961
From: Longview, Texas, USA

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 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.

Works

128 films

Black Panther

20187.4

Arrival

20167.6

Taken 3

20146.3

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

20167.5

Platoon

19867.7

Southpaw

20157.4

Bloodsport

19887.1

Panic Room

20026.8

Phone Booth

20036.9

Havoc

20256.4

Species

19956.0

Street Kings

20086.7

Repo Men

20106.3

The Last Stand

20136.1

Good Morning, Vietnam

19877.3

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

19826.8

Vantage Point

20086.4

Phenomenon

19966.5

Blown Away

19946.2

Sorry to Bother You

20186.8

The Butler

20137.3

Catch.44

20115.0

Where the Wild Things Are

20096.5

First Daughter

20046.2

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

19997.3

Zulu

20136.7

How It Ends

20185.3

Respect

20216.8

The Last King of Scotland

20067.4

The King of Kings

20258.3

Big George Foreman

20237.6

City of Lies

20186.3

Everyone's Hero

20066.1

Battlefield Earth

20003.3

Body Snatchers

19936.2

The Color of Money

19866.8

The Experiment

20106.4

Out of the Furnace

20136.6

Johnny Handsome

19896.4

Prêt-à-Porter

19945.2

Stakeout

19876.5

The Crying Game

19926.8

The Great Debaters

20077.3

Pawn

20135.5

Powder Blue

20096.1

Dope

20157.1

Mr. Holland's Opus

19957.0

Vision Quest

19856.4

Article 99

19926.2

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

20206.5

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

20268.8

Freelancers

20125.1

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

20106.1

A Dark Truth

20125.4

Winged Creatures

20095.9

The Air I Breathe

20076.3

Consenting Adults

19925.4

The Marsh

20065.1

Mary

20055.7

Even Money

20075.5

Smoke

19957.2

Feast of All Saints

20014.8

Finding Steve McQueen

20196.1

Bird

19886.9

Light It Up

19996.6

Our Family Wedding

20105.6

Body Count

19985.5

Serving Life

20115.3

A Little Trip to Heaven

20055.4

The Enemy Within

19945.8

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

20227.3

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

19967.1

The Forgiven

20186.1

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

20227.4

Food Chains

20147.0

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

20054.3

My Own Love Song

20106.2

The Fourth Angel

20015.3

Diary of a Hitman

19915.4

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

20208.1

American Gun

20055.7

Witness Protection

19996.3

Two Men in Town

20145.5

Tag: The Assassination Game

19825.4

Criminal Justice

19906.0

Four Dogs Playing Poker

20004.0

Repentance

20144.8

Jason's Lyric

19946.7

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

20007.3

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'

20177.0

Hurricane Season

20106.6

Last Light

19936.0

Up Against It

2027

A Rage in Harlem

19915.4

Hands of a Stranger

19874.9

Ripple Effect

20075.4

Burden

20186.1

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

20096.7

Prophets of Change

2022

Bank Robber

19934.4

Downtown

19905.7

Black Nativity

20135.2

The Paperboy

20008.0

Before the Music Dies

20067.0

The Follow

20016.9

A Man's Story

20116.9

Green Dragon

20016.2

Lush Life

19937.2

Odyssey in Rome

20057.0

Deacons for Defense

20056.4

Making a Scene | 11 Performances

2013

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

19947.4

Mysteries of the Unseen World

20137.2

Shooting 'Panic Room'

20047.0

Making of Phone Booth

20038.0

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

20107.1

Lullaby for Pi

20106.8

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

202010.0

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

20176.1

The Grand Baby

19835.5

Rising from Ashes

20136.5

A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'

20018.5

The Misbehavers

200410.0

I Am You

20163.5

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

20012.0

Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace

20184.0

Sewing Hope

2026

Seaweed Stories

2024