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