Cast
Forest Whitaker
Acting
Cast
Forest Whitaker
Known for
Acting
Born
1961-07-15
From
Longview, Texas, USA
Also known as Forest Steven Whitaker III, Forest Steven Whitaker, פורסט ויטאקר
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.
★7.4
MOVIE2018
Black Panther
as Zuri
★7.6
MOVIE2016
Arrival
as Colonel Weber
★6.3
MOVIE2014
Taken 3
as Inspector Frank Dotzler
★7.5
MOVIE2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
as Saw Gerrera
★7.1
MOVIE1988
Bloodsport
as Rawlins
★6.4
MOVIE2025
Havoc
as Lawrence Beaumont
★7.4
MOVIE2015
Southpaw
as Titus 'Tick' Wills
★7.8
MOVIE1986
Platoon
as Big Harold
★6.4
MOVIE1989
Johnny Handsome
as Dr. Steven Fisher
★6.4
MOVIE2008
Vantage Point
as Howard Lewis
★5.6
MOVIE2013
Pawn
as Will
★6.8
MOVIE2018
Sorry to Bother You
as First Equisapien / Demarius
★6.8
MOVIE2002
Panic Room
as Burnham
★6.8
MOVIE1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
as Charles Jefferson
★6.1
MOVIE2013
The Last Stand
as Agent John Bannister
★6.9
MOVIE2003
Phone Booth
as Captain Ramey
★7.6
MOVIE2023
Big George Foreman
as Doc Broadus
★6.7
MOVIE2008
Street Kings
as Captain Jack Wander
★5.3
MOVIE2018
How It Ends
as Tom
★8.3
MOVIE2025
The King of Kings
as Peter (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1996
Phenomenon
as Nate Pope
★5.0
MOVIE2011
Catch.44
as Ronny
★7.3
MOVIE2013
The Butler
as Cecil Gaines
★6.0
MOVIE1995
Species
as Dan Smithson, Empath
★7.3
MOVIE1987
Good Morning, Vietnam
as Edward Garlick
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Where the Wild Things Are
as Ira (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE2007
The Great Debaters
as Dr. James Farmer Sr.
★6.3
MOVIE2010
Repo Men
as Jake
★6.6
MOVIE2013
Out of the Furnace
as Chief Wesley Barnes
★7.3
MOVIE1999
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
as Ghost Dog
★7.4
MOVIE2006
The Last King of Scotland
as Idi Amin
★6.2
MOVIE2004
First Daughter
as Narrator (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1992
The Crying Game
as Jody
★6.4
MOVIE2010
The Experiment
as Barris
★6.8
MOVIE1986
The Color of Money
as Amos
★6.7
MOVIE2013
Zulu
as Ali Sokhela
★6.2
MOVIE1994
Blown Away
as Anthony Franklin
★6.4
MOVIE2018
City of Lies
as Jack Jackson
★5.3
MOVIE2011
Serving Life
as Narrator (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2015
Dope
as The Narrator (voice)
★3.3
MOVIE2000
Battlefield Earth
as Ker
★5.9
MOVIE2009
Winged Creatures
as Charlie Archenault
★6.1
MOVIE2006
Everyone's Hero
as Lonnie Brewster (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE2005
Mary
as Ted Younger
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Bobby Tidd as an adult (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1987
Stakeout
as Det. Jack Pismo
★6.1
MOVIE2019
Finding Steve McQueen
as Howard Lambert
★6.8
MOVIE2021
Respect
as C. L. Franklin
★6.2
MOVIE1993
Body Snatchers
as Major Collins
★6.3
MOVIE2007
The Air I Breathe
as Happiness
★5.1
MOVIE2012
Freelancers
as Dennis Larue
★5.5
MOVIE2012
A Dark Truth
as Francisco Francis
★6.1
MOVIE2009
Powder Blue
as Charlie
★4.3
MOVIE2005
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
as Forest Whitaker
★6.5
MOVIE2020
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
as Jeronicus Jangle
★5.2
MOVIE1994
Prêt-à-Porter
as Cy Bianco
★4.8
MOVIE2001
Feast of All Saints
as Daguerreotypist Picard
★6.6
MOVIE2010
Hurricane Season
as Al Collins
★6.1
MOVIE2018
The Forgiven
as Desmond Tutu
★6.2
MOVIE2010
My Own Love Song
as Joey
★5.8
MOVIE1994
The Enemy Within
as Col. MacKenzie Casey
★5.4
MOVIE1992
Consenting Adults
as David Duttonville
★6.4
MOVIE1985
Vision Quest
as Balldozer
★5.4
MOVIE1991
Diary of a Hitman
as Dekker
★4.8
MOVIE2014
Repentance
as Angel
★5.6
MOVIE2010
Our Family Wedding
as Brad Boyd
★5.5
MOVIE2014
Two Men in Town
as William Garnett
★4.9
MOVIE1987
Hands of a Stranger
as Sergeant Delaney
★6.9
MOVIE2011
A Man's Story
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2006
Before the Music Dies
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★4.4
MOVIE1993
Bank Robber
as Officer Battle
★8.0
MOVIE2000
The Paperboy
as Narrator
★7.2
MOVIE1995
Smoke
as Cyrus Cole
★5.4
MOVIE2005
A Little Trip to Heaven
as Abe Holt
★5.3
MOVIE2001
The Fourth Angel
as Agent Jules Bernard
★6.7
MOVIE2009
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
as Narrator
★6.9
MOVIE1988
Bird
as Charlie 'Bird' Parker
★6.1
MOVIE2018
Burden
as Reverend Kennedy
MOVIE2022
Prophets of Change
as Narrator
★6.2
MOVIE1992
Article 99
as Dr. Sid Handleman
★7.1
MOVIE1996
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
as Mr. Rucker
★5.2
MOVIE2013
Black Nativity
as Reverend Cornell Cobbs
★7.3
MOVIE2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE2003
Making of Phone Booth
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2014
Food Chains
★7.0
MOVIE2004
Shooting 'Panic Room'
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE2005
American Gun
as Carter
★6.3
MOVIE1999
Witness Protection
as Steven Beck
★6.1
MOVIE2010
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
as (archive footage)
MOVIE2013
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
★6.0
MOVIE1990
Criminal Justice
as Jessie Williams
★6.4
MOVIE2005
Deacons for Defense
as Marcus Clay
★6.2
MOVIE2001
Green Dragon
as Addie
★7.3
MOVIE2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
as Self
★8.1
MOVIE2020
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
as Self
★4.0
MOVIE2000
Four Dogs Playing Poker
as Mr. Ellington
★6.7
MOVIE1999
Light It Up
as Officer Dante Jackson
★5.1
MOVIE2006
The Marsh
as Geoffrey Hunt
★5.5
MOVIE1998
Body Count
as Crane
★5.5
MOVIE2007
Even Money
as Clyde Snow
★6.8
MOVIE2010
Lullaby for Pi
as George
★6.8
MOVIE1994
Jason's Lyric
as Maddog
★5.4
MOVIE1991
A Rage in Harlem
as Jackson
★10.0
MOVIE2004
The Misbehavers
as Self
★8.5
MOVIE2001
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
as Self
★7.4
MOVIE2022
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
as Saw Gerrera (archive footage) (uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1982
Tag: The Assassination Game
as Gowdy's Bodyguard
★3.5
MOVIE2016
I Am You
as Narrator (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE1993
Lush Life
as Buddy Chester
★5.7
MOVIE1990
Downtown
as Dennis Curren
★6.0
MOVIE1993
Last Light
as Fred Whitmore
★7.0
MOVIE2005
Odyssey in Rome
★5.4
MOVIE2007
Ripple Effect
as Philip
★7.4
MOVIE1994
Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2001
The Follow
as The Employer
MOVIE2027
Rose's Baby
MOVIE2024
Seaweed Stories
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★7.1
MOVIE2010
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
as Lion
★7.0
MOVIE2017
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2017
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2013
Rising from Ashes
as Narrator
★2.0
MOVIE2001
Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai
★10.0
MOVIE2020
Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times
as Self
★7.2
MOVIE2013
Mysteries of the Unseen World
as Narrator
★5.5
MOVIE1983
The Grand Baby
MOVIETBA
Sewing Hope
as Narrator (voice)
★4.0
MOVIE2018
Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace
as Narrator (voice)