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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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Filmography

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

2016
as Saw Gerrera

Arrival

2016
as Colonel Weber

Black Panther

2018
as Zuri

Panic Room

2002
as Burnham

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

2020
as Jeronicus

The Butler

2013
as Cecil Gaines

Phone Booth

2002
as Captain Ramey

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

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

Where the Wild Things Are

2009
as Ira (voice)

The Last King of Scotland

2006
as Idi Amin

Sorry to Bother You

2018
as First Equisapien / Demarius

Platoon

1986
as Big Harold

Xenolinguistics: Understanding Arrival

2017
as Forest Whitaker

Hands of a Stranger

1987
as Sergeant Delaney

Serving Life

2011
as Narrator

Shooting 'Panic Room'

2004
as Forest Whitaker

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

2008
as Narrator

Mysteries of the Unseen World

2013
as Narrator

The Follow

2001
as The Employer (uncredited)

The Marsh

2006
as Geoffrey Hunt

Finding Steve McQueen

2019
as Howard Lambert

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

2010
as Lion

The Enemy Within

1994
as Colonel MacKenzie 'Mac' Casey

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996
as Mr. Rucker

Our Family Wedding

2010
as Brad Boyd

Even Money

2006
as Clyde Snow

Body Count

1998
as Crane

Dragon Hunters

2008
as Lian-Chu (voice)

A Rage in Harlem

1991
as Jackson

Megalopolis

2024

Triumph: the Untold Story of Perry Wallace

as Narrator

Body Snatchers

1993
as Major Collins

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

Diary of a Hitman

1991
as Dekker

Out of the Furnace

2013
as Chief Wesley Barnes

Odyssey in Rome

2005
as Self

A Little Trip to Heaven

2005
as Abe Holt

My Own Love Song

2010
as Joey

Vantage Point

2008
as Howard Lewis

Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter)

1994
as Cy Bianco

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

Black Nativity

2013
as Reverend Cornell Cobbs

Catch.44

2011
as Ronny

Battlefield Earth: Evolution & Creation

2000
as Himself

Pawn

2013
as Will

A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'

2001
as Himself

American Gun

2005
as Carter

Smoke

1995
as Cyrus Cole

Street Kings

2008
as Captain Jack Wander

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

1999
as Ghost Dog

Average height, average build

Freelancers

2012
as Dennis Larue

The Color of Money

1986
as Amos

DOPE

2015
as Narrator

Lullaby for Pi

2010
as George

Battlefield Earth

2000
as Ker

Making a Scene

2013
as Man

Sewing Hope

2015
as Narrator

Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez

2010
as Forest Whitaker

Tag: The Assassination Game

1982
as Gowdy's Bodyguard

Downtown

1990
as Dennis Curren

Johnny Handsome

1989
as Dr. Steven Fisher

A Fall from Grace

as Source

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

2017
as Self

Criminal Justice

1990
as Jessie Williams

Hurricane Season

2009
as Al Collins

Deacons for Defense

2003
as Marcus

Last Light

1993
as Fred Whitmore

Vanity Fair: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die

2007
as The Corner Man

The Great Debaters

2007
as Dr. James Farmer Sr.

Bank Robber

1993
as Officer Battle

The Fourth Angel

2001
as Agent Jules Bernard

The Crying Game

1992
as Jody

Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World

2023

Two Men in Town

2014
as William Garnett

Everyone's Hero

2006
as Lonnie Brewster (voice)

Havoc

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

Movie Door to Door 2002

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