Forest Steven Whitaker is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. His accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and the Honorary Palme d'Or.
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Michael Zelniker, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke and Forest Whitaker promoting the film Bird at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
Whitaker presenting the film My Own Love Song in Paris, 2010
Whitaker at the premiere of Two Men in Town (2014)
Whitaker signing playbills after making his Broadway debut in Hughie (2016)
Didier Allouch and Whitaker at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022In their own words 2
[About why he named his daughter True and son Ocean] I want those names to be their destiny, for my daughter to be honest and my son to be expansive.
To Webster Hall curator Baird Jones, reported in the New York Post (11 December 1999); quoted in “Forest Whitaker,” in Hollywood.com.
Life is full of choices, and many years ago, I chose to become a vegetarian, and it was one of the best choices I’ve ever made.
“Forest Whitaker,” ad for PETA (27 March 2008).
Filmography 40
Black Panther
Arrival
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Taken 3
Southpaw
Bloodsport
Platoon
Havoc
Panic Room
Vantage Point
Species
The Last Stand
Phone Booth
Good Morning, Vietnam
Monte Carlo
Phenomenon
The Butler
Street Kings
Repo Men
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sorry to Bother You
Out of the Furnace
The Last King of Scotland
Where the Wild Things Are
How It Ends
Dope
The Color of Money
Fruitvale Station
First Daughter
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Big George Foreman
The Experiment
Blown Away
The Great Debaters
The Crying Game
Battlefield Earth
Hope Floats
City of Lies
Zulu
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey210 credits on file
Television 24
Criminal Minds
American Dad!
The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
ER
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The View
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Shield
Empire
Andor
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Hill Street Blues
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Star Wars Rebels
American Idol
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Cagney & Lacey
Godfather of Harlem
Amazing Stories
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
North and South
The Twilight ZoneAwards 10
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