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.
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Forest Whitaker Biography / Wiki
| Name | Forest Whitaker |
| Also Know | Forest Steven Whitaker III, ΦόÏεστ ΓουίτακεÏ, í¬ë ˆìŠ¤íŠ¸ 휘태커, フォレスト・ウィテカー |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Longview, Texas, USA |
| Date of Birth | July 15, 1961 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 61 |
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Forest Whitaker Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin | 2006-01-12 | Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it’s time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in U… |
| Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Ghost Dog | 1999-06-02 | An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob…. |
| Bird | Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker | 1988-07-01 | Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his l… |
| Hurricane Season | Al Collins | 2009-12-08 | Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach A… |
| Our Family Wedding | Brad Boyd | 2010-03-12 | The weeks leading up to a young couple’s wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud…. |
| A Rage in Harlem | Jackson | 1991-05-03 | A beautiful black gangster’s moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavo… |
| A Little Trip to Heaven | Abe Holt | 2005-12-26 | Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horr… |
| American Gun | Carter | 2005-01-01 | Seemingly disparate portraits of people — among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student — Distinctly American — all affec… |
| Deacons for Defense | Marcus Clay | 2003-01-01 | Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of… |
| Crips and Bloods: Made in America | Narrator | 2008-01-01 | With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence a… |
| Diary of a Hitman | Dekker | 1991-11-20 | A veteran hitman, Dekker is ready to call it quits and leave the profession. His final job, however, proves to be trickier than expected when a sadist… |
| Repentance | Angel | 2014-02-28 | An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas’ teachings and uses … |
| The Enemy Within | Col. MacKenzie Casey | 1994-08-24 | A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover…. |
| Witness Protection | Steven Beck | 1999-12-11 | Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you’ve ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career crimi… |
| Serving Life | Narrator (voice) | 2011-07-28 | SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Aca… |
| The Butler | Cecil Gaines | 2013-08-16 | A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House’s head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as … |
| Two Men in Town | William Garnett | 2014-05-07 | A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge…. |
| Criminal Justice | Jessie Williams | 1990-09-08 | A knife-scarred victim must identify her assailant beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the accused is offered a deal if he pleads guilty. Is he as in… |
| Black Nativity | Reverend Cornell Cobbs | 2013-11-27 | A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged re… |
| Mysteries of the Unseen World | Narrator | 2013-11-01 | Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never been before, to see things that are beyond their norm… |
| I Am You | Narrator (voice) | 2016-12-12 | In Peace We Trust. This documentary shows us how animal rights and human rights & the environment are all related. And the diverse effects that th… |
| Ripple Effect | Philip | 2007-06-21 | Believing that bad karma is keeping him from realizing his dream, hip clothing designer Amer Atrash (Philippe Caland) attempts to orchestrate salvatio… |
| The Forgiven | Desmond Tutu | 2018-03-09 | After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption…. |
| Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace | Narrator (voice) | 2018-03-23 | Whenever the phrase “breaking the color line” is used, there’s a temptation to invoke Jackie Robinson’s story. However, Perry Wallace, the first black… |
| The Paperboy | Narrator | 2000-01-01 | A young paper boy goes through his early morning delivery routine…. |
| Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey | Jeronicus Jangle | 2020-11-06 | An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power… |
| Rising from Ashes | Narrator | 2013-08-02 | “Rising from Ashes†is a feature length documentary about the ï¬rst Rwandan National Cycling Team and their six year journey to the Olympic games… |
| Food Chains | 2014-04-26 | This call to arms documentary details the questionable ethics of the food supply industry, pointing out the power of huge supermarket chains to dictat… | |
| Good Morning, Vietnam | Edward Montesque Garlick | 1987-12-23 | A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his h… |
| Street Kings | Captain Jack Wander | 2008-04-10 | Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in t… |
| Repo Men | Jake | 2010-03-18 | In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payme… |
| Green Dragon | Addie | 2001-05-17 | A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, ‘Green Dragon’ focuses on a young boy an… |
| Downtown | Dennis Curren | 1990-01-12 | Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-connected white collar executive who promises to get … |
| My Own Love Song | Joey | 2010-04-07 | A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis…. |
| Winged Creatures | Charlie Archenault | 2008-06-24 | A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horre… |
| Last Light | Fred Whitmore | 1993-08-22 | Kiefer Sutherland plays Denver Bayliss, a condemned murderer who has killed three people, including a prison guard. He was brought into the system as … |
| Lush Life | Buddy Chester | 1993-10-01 | Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whitaker star as New York jazz musicians, forced to confront a life beyond their hedonistic existence when a personal crisis … |
| The Fourth Angel | Agent Jules Bernard | 2001-08-15 | Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terroris… |
| Freelancers | Dennis Larue | 2012-08-10 | The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father’s former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, w… |
| Pawn | Will | 2013-04-23 | A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that’s a front for the mob…. |
| Zulu | Ali Sokhela | 2013-12-04 | As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. … |
| A Fall from Grace | Source | Detective Michael Tabb knows the city of St. Louis inside and out. He has felt its true heart, as much as its dark underbelly: but he does not know wh… | |
| Taken 3 | Inspector Franck Dotzler | 2014-12-16 | Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he’s falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he’s pursued by a sa… |
| Finding Steve McQueen | Howard Lambert | 2019-03-15 | In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the bigg… |
| City of Lies | Jack Jackson | 2018-09-06 | Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest case — the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupa… |
| How It Ends | Tom | 2018-07-13 | A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos…. |
| Respect | C. L. Franklin | 2021-08-12 | The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom…. |
| Ghost Dog: The Odyssey: The Journey Into the Life of a Samurai | 2001-08-14 | A documentary about the making of Jim Jarmusch’s 1999 film GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI, including interviews with the director and stars Forest … | |
| Nations United: Urgent Solutions for Urgent Times | 2020-09-19 | Nations United is a special, first of its kind film, created by the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary and to mark five years since the adoption o… | |
| Havoc | After a drug deal gone wrong, a bruised detective must fight his way through a criminal underworld to rescue a politician’s estranged son, while unr… | ||
| Phone Booth | Captain Ramey | 2003-04-04 | A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he’ll be killed… and the little red light f… |
| Panic Room | Burnham | 2002-03-29 | Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her … |
| Battlefield Earth | Ker | 2000-05-12 | In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, th… |
| The Marsh | Geoffrey Hunt | 2006-05-18 | Writer Claire Holloway is troubled by nightmares of Rose Marsh Farm. She decides to vacation at the farm which unbeknown to her is haunted by the ghos… |
| Vantage Point | Howard Lewis | 2008-02-01 | The attempted assassination of the American president is told and re-told from several different perspectives…. |
| Article 99 | Dr. Sid Handleman | 1992-03-13 | Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran’s hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliv… |
| Phenomenon | Nate Pope | 1996-07-05 | An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis…. |
| The Experiment | Barris | 2010-07-15 | 20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control…. |
| Mary | Ted Younger | 2005-11-18 | Following the shooting of a film on the life of Jesus called This Is My Blood, Marie Palesi, the actress who plays Mary Magdalene, takes refuge in Jer… |
| Powder Blue | Charlie | 2009-05-08 | On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide…. |
| Light It Up | Officer Dante Jackson | 1999-11-04 | On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, cla… |
| Even Money | Clyde Snow | 2006-03-01 | Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives…. |
| Southpaw | Titus ‘Tick’ Wills | 2015-03-24 | Billy “The Great” Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle… |
| Odyssey in Rome | 2005-09-30 | Alex Grazioli follows bad-boy filmmaker Abel Ferrara as he spends three grueling years battling obstacles in Italy to direct “Mary,” a modern-re imagi… | |
| Arrival | Colonel G. T. Weber | 2016-11-10 | Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are … |
| Burden | Reverend Kennedy | 2020-02-28 | Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, un… |
| Johnny Handsome | Dr. Steven Fisher | 1989-09-12 | A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straig… |
| The Crying Game | Jody | 1992-09-02 | Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA… |
| Lullaby for Pi | George | 2010-10-11 | A washed-up musician befriends a reclusive artist with an unusual name…. |
| A Dark Truth | Francisco Francis | 2012-11-29 | In the jungles of Ecuador, blood taints the waters. A multinational conglomerate’s unholy alliance with a bloodthirsty military regime has resulted in… |
| The Follow | The Employer | 2001-05-24 | The Driver is hired by a nervous movie manager to spy on a paranoid actor’s wife. During his tailing of the wife, the Driver describes the right way t… |
| Bank Robber | Officer Battle | 1993-12-03 | After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as the… |
| Platoon | Big Harold | 1986-12-19 | As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man…. |
| Making of Phone Booth | Himself | Behind the scenes documentary of the Joel T. Schumacher film Phone Booth…. | |
| Prophets of Change | Narrator | 2022-10-12 | Can music overcome borders and walls and bring people together? Prophets of Change tracks musicians, both Israeli and Palestinian, through their uniqu… |
| Blown Away | Anthony Franklin | 1994-07-01 | Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that… |
| Smoke | Cyrus Cole | 1995-06-09 | Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren’s smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul t… |
| The Great Debaters | Dr. James Farmer Sr. | 2007-12-27 | The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American … |
| Consenting Adults | David Duttonville | 1992-10-16 | Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and… |
| Catch.44 | Ronny | 2011-12-08 | The lives of three female assassins take a sudden turn when their charming boss lures them into one last job. They soon find themselves thrust into a … |
| Average Height, Average Build | A serial killer enlists a political lobbyist to change laws that will allow him to get away with murder more easily. At the same time, he tries to pre… | ||
| Body Count | Crane | 1998-04-28 | A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul o… |
| Bloodsport | Rawlins | 1988-02-26 | U.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While try… |
| Species | Dan Smithson, Empath | 1995-07-07 | In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on ho… |
| Rebound: The Legend of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault | Mr. Rucker | 1996-01-01 | A dramatization of the life of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison… |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Ira (voice) | 2009-10-16 | Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexanderâ… |
| Out of the Furnace | Chief Wesley Barnes | 2013-12-06 | Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the m… |
| Stakeout | Det. Jack Pismo | 1987-08-05 | Two cops are given the ‘dirty’ job of staking out the home of an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend. Chris and the beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet… |
| The Air I Breathe | Happiness | 2007-02-07 | A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessma… |
| Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life | Lion | 2010-03-02 | Jennie the terrier has everything a dog could ever wish for, but still feels that something is missing. She leaves home to discover what that is…. |
| A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting ‘Platoon’ | Self | 2001-01-01 | A documentary about the making of Oliver Stone’s Vietnam War film, Platoon (1986)…. |
| The Stories: The Making of ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ | Himself | 2017-04-04 | The Making of ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’… |
| Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World | Doc Broadus | 2023-04-27 | Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followe… |
| Jason’s Lyric | Maddog | 1994-09-28 | The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends…. |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Saw Gerrera | 2016-12-14 | A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy…. |
| Body Snatchers | Major Collins | 1993-06-09 | When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his fam… |
| The Last Stand | Agent John Bannister | 2013-01-12 | Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from… |
| Before the Music Dies | Self – Narrator (voice) | 2006-11-02 | B4MD tells the story of American music at this precarious moment. Filmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country, hoping to understa… |
| Megalopolis | An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster…. | ||
| Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 | For this year’s Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsi… |
| Dope | Narrator | 2015-06-19 | Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A ch… |
| Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Self | 2000-09-27 | Hollywood careers are full of make-or-break moments. For Clint Eastwood, one such moment came when studio powers agreed to let him make his directing … |
| Hands of a Stranger | Sergeant Delaney | 1987-05-10 | A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife’s rapist…. |
| Vision Quest | Balldozer | 1985-02-15 | After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge… |
| The Making of ‘Making a Scene’ | 2013-11-25 | A behind-the-scenes look at the year’s [2013] best performers starring in 11 original (very) short films directed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Jan… | |
| Xenolinguistics: Understanding ‘Arrival’ | Self | 2017-02-14 | A look at the source story, core human themes, the challenges and process of bringing the story to the screen, casting, creating realistic characters … |
| Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Charles Jefferson | 1982-08-13 | Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. S… |
| Feast of All Saints | Daguerreotypist Picard | 2001-11-11 | Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught b… |
| Black Panther | Zuri | 2018-02-13 | King T’Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country’s new leader. However, T’Chall… |
| Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso | Self | 1994-12-11 | A look at the life and career of actor/director Clint Eastwood, including scenes from his past film and television work and interviews with friends, f… |
| Ready to Wear | Cy Bianco | 1994-12-23 | During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another…. |
| Dragon Hunters | Lian-Chu (voice) | 2008-03-19 | Dragon Hunters is a fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters: the world has become a vast conglomerate of islands of varying size a… |
| Tag: The Assassination Game | Gowdy’s Bodyguard | 1982-04-20 | Pretending to do research for his newspaper, college student Alex Marsh teams up with the somewhat older Susan Swayze, who he long admired from afar. … |
| Shooting ‘Panic Room’ | Self | 2004-03-30 | Watch David Fincher’s journey of the filming process for Panic Room (2002) in this interesting documentary. We see the entire cast and crew throughout… |
| Sorry to Bother You | First Equisapien / Demarius | 2018-07-06 | In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him… |
| Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend | Self (archive footage) | 2022-11-13 | The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Go… |
| Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Self | 2004-09-18 | “La La Wood” follows the legacy of Jiminy Glick, first introduced on “The Martin Short Show,” who went on to get (non)-critical acclaim for his talk s… |
| A Man’s Story | Self | 2011-10-08 | Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng…. |
| Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self | 2021-09-09 | As he enters his eighth decade in the movies, Warner Bros. celebrates this cinematic icon – actor, producer, director, master filmmaker – with 9 new d… |
| Everyone’s Hero | Lonnie Brewster (voice) | 2006-08-04 | A boy begins a grand journey to return Babe Ruth’s baseball bat before the deciding game of the 1932 World Series comes to a close…. |
| Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look | Saw Gerrera (uncredited) (archive footage) | 2022-09-08 | Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor coming to Disney+ on September 21…. |
| Killers Kill, Dead Men Die | The Corner Man | 2007-03-13 | The most ambitious portfolio in the 13-year history of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue, this year’s homage to noir had its own dramatic imperatives…. |
| Mon Clown | Self (archive footage) | 2008-03-14 | Documentary from France’s TV channel Canal+ about the making of the 2007 film ‘La Vie en Rose’ and Marion Cotillard’s road to the Oscar for her perfor… |
| Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self | 2020-08-30 | A tribute to Chadwick Boseman, celebrating his life and legacy…. |
| The Color of Money | Amos | 1986-10-17 | Former pool hustler “Fast Eddie” Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and propo… |
| First Daughter | Narrator (voice) | 2004-09-24 | Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a group of Secret Service agents. Samantha, however, r… |
| Mr. Holland’s Opus | Bobby Tidd – Adult (uncredited) | 1995-12-29 | In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it’s just a small obstacle on the road to his tru… |
Forest Whitaker Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Waiting to Exhale | Director | 1995-12-22 | Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive “good man” to break a string of less-than-stellar l… |
| Strapped | Director | 1993-08-21 | Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a de… |
| Hope Floats | Director | 1998-05-29 | Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who’s been sleeping with Birdee’s husband, Bill. Birdee tries startin… |
| First Daughter | Director | 2004-09-24 | Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a group of Secret Service agents. Samantha, however, r… |
Forest Whitaker Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Serving Life | Executive Producer | 2011-07-28 | SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Aca… |
| Fruitvale Station | Producer | 2013-07-26 | Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the p… |
| Powder Blue | Producer | 2009-05-08 | On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide…. |
| Monte Carlo | Executive Producer | 2011-07-01 | Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress…. |
| Roxanne Roxanne | Producer | 2017-01-22 | The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne S… |
| Ripple Effect | Executive Producer | 2007-06-21 | Believing that bad karma is keeping him from realizing his dream, hip clothing designer Amer Atrash (Philippe Caland) attempts to orchestrate salvatio… |
| Sorry to Bother You | Producer | 2018-07-06 | In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him… |
| Songs My Brothers Taught Me | Producer | 2015-09-09 | This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find the… |
| A Rage in Harlem | Co-Producer | 1991-05-03 | A beautiful black gangster’s moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavo… |
| Passing | Producer | 2021-10-27 | In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who’s passing as white…. |
| A Kid from Coney Island | Executive Producer | 2019-04-27 | Feature documentary about the rise and fall, and rebirth of ex-NBA star, Stephon Marbury…. |
| American Gun | Executive Producer | 2005-01-01 | Seemingly disparate portraits of people — among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student — Distinctly American — all affec… |
| Rising from Ashes | Executive Producer | 2013-08-02 | “Rising from Ashes†is a feature length documentary about the ï¬rst Rwandan National Cycling Team and their six year journey to the Olympic games… |
| Green Dragon | Executive Producer | 2001-05-17 | A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, ‘Green Dragon’ focuses on a young boy an… |
| Kassim the Dream | Producer | 2009-06-05 | A man proves that against all odds, he can turn tragedy into inspiration by becoming a world class champion, in this gripping tale of survival and cou… |
| Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo | Producer | 2019-05-16 | D’Angelo had it all: two platinum selling albums, a sold out world tour and a body chiselled to perfection. However, one day at the height of his care… |
| Door to Door | Co-Executive Producer | 2002-07-14 | Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give u… |
| First Daughter | Executive Producer | 2004-09-24 | Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a group of Secret Service agents. Samantha, however, r… |
| Dope | Producer | 2015-06-19 | Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A ch… |
| For the Sake of Peace | Producer | 2022-05-18 | South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, at war with itself. However, through this darkness, its endless cycle of conflict has hope: the dete… |
| Chasing Papi | Producer | 2003-04-16 | Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women… |
| To Live and Die and Live | Producer | 2023-01-20 | Muhammad returns home to Detroit to bury his stepfather and is thrust into settling his accounts, but Muhammad’s struggles with depression and addic… |
| Fancy Dance | Executive Producer | 2023-01-20 | Since her sister’s disappearance, Jax has cared for her niece Roki by scraping by on the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation in Oklahoma. Every spare minute g… |
| Executive Producer | Created and directed by the award-winning filmmakers Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin, Brick City, is a documentary series that captures the daily drama o… | ||
| Executive Producer | Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in… | ||
| Executive Producer | Inspired by the music and subjects featured in the series “Godfather of Harlem,†this documentary series brings alive the dramatic true story of H… | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| A Little Off Mark | Thanks | 1986-07-25 | Writer-director Robert Wheaton’s story of a shy guy, Mark (Parros), trying all the wrong moves to meet the right girl rides high on a romantic sensi… |
| Hope Floats | Executive Music Producer | 1998-05-29 | Birdee Pruitt has been humiliated on live television by her best friend, Connie, who’s been sleeping with Birdee’s husband, Bill. Birdee tries startin… |
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