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

Where the Wild Things Are

20096.5

Southpaw

20157.4

Panic Room

20026.8

Bloodsport

19887.1

Phone Booth

20036.9

Havoc

20256.4

Street Kings

20086.7

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

19826.8

Species

19956.0

The Last Stand

20136.1

Repo Men

20106.3

Good Morning, Vietnam

19877.3

Vantage Point

20086.4

The Butler

20137.3

Phenomenon

19966.5

Blown Away

19946.2

First Daughter

20046.2

Catch.44

20115.0

Sorry to Bother You

20186.8

How It Ends

20185.3

Respect

20216.8

Big George Foreman

20237.6

The King of Kings

20258.3

Zulu

20136.7

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

19997.3

The Last King of Scotland

20067.4

City of Lies

20186.3

Battlefield Earth

20003.3

Everyone's Hero

20066.1

The Color of Money

19866.8

Stakeout

19876.5

Out of the Furnace

20136.6

Prêt-à-Porter

19945.2

The Experiment

20106.4

Body Snatchers

19936.2

The Great Debaters

20077.3

Johnny Handsome

19896.4

The Crying Game

19926.8

Mr. Holland's Opus

19957.0

Powder Blue

20096.1

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

20268.8

Pawn

20135.5

Vision Quest

19856.4

Dope

20157.1

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

20206.5

Winged Creatures

20095.9

Article 99

19926.2

A Dark Truth

20125.4

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

20106.1

Even Money

20075.5

Freelancers

20125.1

Consenting Adults

19925.4

Serving Life

20115.3

Smoke

19957.2

Mary

20055.7

Bird

19886.9

The Marsh

20065.1

Body Count

19985.5

Light It Up

19996.6

Finding Steve McQueen

20196.1

The Forgiven

20186.1

Our Family Wedding

20105.6

The Enemy Within

19945.8

The Air I Breathe

20076.3

Feast of All Saints

20014.8

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

20227.4

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

20227.3

Diary of a Hitman

19915.4

A Little Trip to Heaven

20055.4

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

20054.3

The Fourth Angel

20015.3

My Own Love Song

20106.2

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

19967.1

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

20007.3

Two Men in Town

20145.5

Witness Protection

19996.3

Food Chains

20147.0

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

20208.1

Hurricane Season

20106.6

Repentance

20144.8

American Gun

20055.7

Black Nativity

20135.2

Criminal Justice

19906.0

Jason's Lyric

19946.7

Tag: The Assassination Game

19825.4

A Rage in Harlem

19915.4

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

20096.7

Ripple Effect

20075.4

Last Light

19936.0

Burden

20186.1

Downtown

19905.7

Prophets of Change

2022

Before the Music Dies

20067.0

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'

20177.0

A Man's Story

20116.9

The Follow

20016.9

Four Dogs Playing Poker

20004.0

Bank Robber

19934.4

The Paperboy

20008.0

Hands of a Stranger

19874.9

Making a Scene | 11 Performances

2013

Up Against It

2027

Green Dragon

20016.2

Lush Life

19937.2

Odyssey in Rome

20057.0

Deacons for Defense

20056.4

Mysteries of the Unseen World

20137.2

Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso

19947.4

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

20107.1

Making of Phone Booth

20038.0

Lullaby for Pi

20106.8

Shooting 'Panic Room'

20047.0

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

20176.1

Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times

202010.0

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

20012.0

Rising from Ashes

20136.5

The Misbehavers

200410.0

I Am You

20163.5

Seaweed Stories

2024

The Grand Baby

19835.5

Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace

20184.0

A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'

20018.5

Sewing Hope

2026