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Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker is an American actor, director and producer. 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.


Aliases
  • Forest Steven Whitaker
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Arrival

2016
as Colonel Weber

Panic Room

2002
as Burnham

Godfather of Harlem

2019
as Bumpy Johnson

The Butler

2013
as Cecil Gaines

Phone Booth

2002
as Captain Ramey

Extrapolations

2023
as August Bolo

The Shield

2002
as Lt. Jon Kavanaugh

Taken 3

2014
as Inspector Frank Dotzler

Respect

2021
as C. L. Franklin

Southpaw

2015
as Titus 'Tick' Wills

How It Ends

2018
as Tom

Bloodsport

1988
as Rawlins

Roots (2016)

2016
as Fiddler

Good Morning, Vietnam

1987
as Edward Montesque Garlick

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1982
as Charles Jefferson

The Last Stand

2013
as Agent John Bannister

The Experiment

2010
as Barris

Sorry to Bother You

2018
as First Equisapien / Demarius

Platoon

1986
as Big Harold

Hands of a Stranger

1987
as Sergeant Delaney

Serving Life

2011
as Narrator

Shooting 'Panic Room'

2004
as Forest Whitaker

The Follow

2001
as The Employer (uncredited)

The Marsh

2006
as Geoffrey Hunt

Finding Steve McQueen

2019
as Howard Lambert

The Enemy Within

1994
as Colonel MacKenzie 'Mac' Casey

Our Family Wedding

2010
as Brad Boyd

Even Money

2006
as Clyde Snow

Body Count

1998
as Crane

The Twilight Zone (2002)

2002
as Himself - Host

Dragon Hunters

2008
as Lian-Chu (voice)

A Rage in Harlem

1991
as Jackson

Body Snatchers

1993
as Major Collins

North and South

1985
as Cuffey

Mary

2005
as Ted Younger

A Man's Story

2011
as Himself

Repentance

2014
as Angel

Powder Blue

2009
as Charlie

Stakeout

1987
as Det. Jack Pismo

Out of the Furnace

2013
as Chief Wesley Barnes

Vantage Point

2008
as Howard Lewis

Zulu

2013
as Ali Sokhela

The Air I Breathe

2007
as Happiness

A Dark Truth

2012
as Francisco Francis

Green Dragon

2001
as Addie

Jason's Lyric

1994
as Maddog

Burden

2018
as Reverend Kennedy

Winged Creatures

2008
as Charlie Archenault

Consenting Adults

1992
as David Duttonville

Ripple Effect

2007
as Philip

Rising from Ashes

2012
as Narrator

Repo Men

2010
as Jake

Phenomenon

1996
as Nate Pope

Witness Protection

1999
as Steven Beck

Blown Away

1994
as Anthony Franklin

City of Lies

2019
as Jack Jackson

The Feast of All Saints

2001
as Daguerreotypist Picard

Black Nativity

2013
as Reverend Cornell Cobbs

Catch.44

2011
as Ronny

Pawn

2013
as Will

American Gun

2005
as Carter

Smoke

1995
as Cyrus Cole

Street Kings

2008
as Captain Jack Wander

Freelancers

2012
as Dennis Larue

DOPE

2015
as Narrator

Lullaby for Pi

2010
as George

Sewing Hope

2015
as Narrator

Tag: The Assassination Game

1982
as Gowdy's Bodyguard

Downtown

1990
as Dennis Curren

Johnny Handsome

1989
as Dr. Steven Fisher

Criminal Justice

1990
as Jessie Williams

Hurricane Season

2009
as Al Collins

Last Light

1993
as Fred Whitmore

The Great Debaters

2007
as Dr. James Farmer Sr.

Bank Robber

1993
as Officer Battle

The Fourth Angel

2001
as Agent Jules Bernard

Two Men in Town

2014
as William Garnett

Everyone's Hero

2006
as Lonnie Brewster (voice)

Lush Life

1993
as Buddy Chester

Species

1995
as Dan Smithson, Empath

American Storytellers

2003
as Forest Whitaker

Article 99

1992
as Dr. Sid Handleman

The Forgiven

2018
as Desmond Tutu

Light It Up

1999
as Officer Dante Jackson

Bird

1988
as Charlie 'Bird' Parker

Director

Movie First Daughter 2004
Movie Strapped 1993
Movie Waiting to Exhale 1995
Movie Hope Floats 1998

Executive Producer

Episode By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Mecca
2020
Episode By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Freedom Songs
2020
Episode By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Crossroads
2020
Episode By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Power
2020
Movie Door to Door 2002
Episode Brick City
Summer Is Ours
2009

Producer

Movie Monte Carlo 2011
Movie Sorry to Bother You 2018
Movie Roxanne, Roxanne 2017
Movie Serving Life 2011
Movie Devil's Pie: D'Angelo 2019
Movie A Rage in Harlem 1991
Movie Roxanne, Roxanne 2017
Movie Fruitvale Station 2013
Movie Powder Blue 2009
Movie Rising from Ashes 2012
Movie Ripple Effect 2007
Movie Songs My Brothers Taught Me 2015
Movie Kassim the Dream 2008

Crew

Movie Serving Life 2011

Guest Star

Episode The Shield
Extraction
2006
Episode The Shield
Smoked
2006
Episode American Dad!
Meter Made
2007
Episode Empire (2015)
False Face
2018
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Forest Whitaker, Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman, A Fine Frenzy
2009
Episode Diff'rent Strokes
Bully for Arnold
1985
Episode Empire (2015)
A Lean and Hungry Look
2018
Episode The Shield
Enemy of Good
2006
Episode Empire (2015)
Fair Terms
2018
Episode Empire (2015)
Bloody Noses and Crack'd Crowns
2018
Episode The Shield
Of Mice and Lem
2006
Episode The Shield
Jailbait
2006
Episode The Fall Guy
Spring Break
1985
Episode ER
A House Divided
2007
Episode Inside the Actors Studio
Forest Whitaker
2006
Episode The Shield
Post Partum
2006
Episode Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Bruce Forsyth, Forest Whitaker, Agyness Deyn, Elbow.
2008
Episode The Shield
Tapa Boca
2006
Episode Empire (2015)
The Empire Unpossess'd
2018
Episode Empire (2015)
Full Circle
2017
Episode Amazing Stories (1985)
Gather Ye Acorns
1986
Episode The Shield
On the Jones
2007
Episode North and South
Summer 1842 - Summer 1844
1985
Episode North and South
Autumn 1844 - Spring 1848
1985
Episode North and South
Spring 1848 - Summer 1854
1985
Episode The Shield
Trophy
2006
Episode Empire (2015)
Steal From the Thief
2018
Episode North and South
Summer 1854 - Autumn 1856
1985
Episode The Shield
Rap Payback
2006
Episode The Daily Show
Megan Rapinoe & Forest Whitaker
2020
Episode Criminal Minds
The Fight
2010
Episode ER
Murmurs of the Heart
2007
Episode Empire (2015)
The Fool
2017
Episode American Dad!
Chimdale
2009
Episode The Shield
Baptism by Fire
2007
Episode Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Forest Whitaker, Andy Cohen, Cut Copy, Brad Whitford
2013
Episode HARDtalk
Forest Whitaker, Actor
2017
Episode Saturday Night Live
Forest Whitaker/Keith Urban
2007
Episode The Shield
Man Inside
2006
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Forest Whitaker, Teresa Palmer
2011
Episode Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
Drama Actors
2016
Episode The Hire
The Follow
2001
Episode Empire (2015)
The Lady Doth Protest
2017
Episode The Shield
Kavanaugh
2006
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Charlize Theron, Forest Whitaker, Black Pumas
2019
Episode The Shield
The Shield: Television Academy Panel
2016
Episode Cannes Festival
Émission du jeudi 19 mai 2022
2022
Episode Empire (2015)
Birds in the Cage
2018
Episode RiffTrax
Battlefield Earth
2007
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Show #2694
2007
Episode Trapper John, M.D.
School Nurse
1984
Episode ER
Tell Me No Secrets…
2006