Forest Whitaker

Highest Rated:
100% The Crying Game (1992)
Lowest Rated:
2% Battlefield Earth (2000)
Birthday:
Jul 15, 1961
Birthplace:
Longview, Texas
Bio:
Born July 15th, 1961, the hulking, unmistakably burly Forest Whitaker initially got into college on a football scholarship, but upon transferring to the University of Southern California, he majored in music, winning two more scholarships in that field. Still another scholarship, this one in the…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 2% - 100%
Number of Movies: 97
Box Office Since 2001: $535.5M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Pawn
  • Actor
$2.1k
2013 Black Nativity
  • Reverend Cornell Cobbs
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2013 The Butler
  • Eugene Allen
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2013 Serving Life
  • Actor
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2013 Zulu
  • Actor
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2013 59% The Last Stand
  • Agent John Bannister
$12.0M
2013 Out of the Furnace
  • Actor
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2012 Freelancers
  • LaRue
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2012 What a Wonderful World
  • Louis Armstrong
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2012 73% Toys In The Attic (Na Pude)
  • Actor
$64.9k
2012 Rising From Ashes
  • Producer
  • Actor
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2012 8% A Dark Truth
  • Francisco Francis
$5.8k
2012 31% A Man's Story
  • Actor
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2011 John Legend - Duke Ellington
  • Actor
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2011 Catch .44
  • Ronny
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2010 My Own Love Song
  • Joey
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2010 41% The Expendables
  • Actor
$103.0M
2010 13% Our Family Wedding
  • Brad Boyd
$18.6M
2010 22% Repo Men
  • Jake
$13.2M
2010 The Experiment
  • Barris
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2010 Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More To Life
  • Actor
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2009 Lullaby for Pi
  • George
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2009 Na pude aneb Kdo má dneska narozeniny? (In the Attic or Who Has a Birthday Today?)
  • Mucha (English Version)
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2009 Hurricane Season
  • Al Collins
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2009 25% Powder Blue
  • Actor
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2009 73% Where the Wild Things Are
  • Ira
$77.2M
2008 35% Vantage Point
  • Howard Lewis
$72.3M
2008 67% Chasseurs de Dragons (Dragon Hunters)
  • Actor
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2008 36% Street Kings
  • Capt. Jack Wander
$26.4M
2008 King
  • Actor
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2008 45% Fragments
  • Charlie
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2008 75% Crips and Bloods: Made in America
  • Narrator
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2007 29% Ripple Effect
  • Producer
  • Phillip Blackman
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2007 12% The Air I Breathe
  • Happiness
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2007 78% The Great Debaters
  • James Farmer Sr.
$30.0M
2007 24% Even Money
  • Clyde Snow
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2006 The Marsh
  • Actor
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2006 40% Everyone's Hero
  • Lonnie Brewster
$14.5M
2006 Jumbo Box of Storybook Classics 2
  • Actor
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2006 Before the Music Dies
  • Narrator
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2006 87% The Last King of Scotland
  • Director
  • Idi Amin
$17.4M
2005 Special Thanks to Roy London
  • Actor
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2005 37% American Gun
  • Carl Carter
  • Producer
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2005 59% Mary
  • Ted Younger
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2005 33% A Little Trip to Heaven
  • Director
  • Holt
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2004 8% First Daughter
  • Narrator
  • Director
$9.0M
2004 22% Jiminy Glick in La La Wood
  • Actor
$25.7k
2003 Deacons for Defense
  • Marcus
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2003 American Storytellers
  • Actor
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2003 71% Phone Booth
  • Captain Ramey
$46.5M
2002 76% Panic Room
  • Burnham
$95.3M
2002 61% Green Dragon
  • Addie
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2001 The Fourth Angel (The 4th Angel)
  • Agent Jules Bernard
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2001 The Follow
  • Husband's Assistant (uncredited)
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2001 A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
  • Actor
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2001 The Feast of All Saints
  • Daguerreotypist Picard
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2000 Four Dogs Playing Poker
  • Ellington
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2000 2% Battlefield Earth
  • Ker
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2000 Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
  • Actor
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2000 American Storytellers
  • Actor
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1999 38% Light It Up
  • Officer Dante Jackson
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1999 82% Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai
  • Ghost Dog
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1999 Witness Protection
  • Actor
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1998 Body Count
  • Crane
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1998 24% Hope Floats
  • Director
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1996 Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault
  • Mr. Rucker
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1996 50% Phenomenon
  • Nate Pope
  • Director
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1995 36% Species
  • Dan Smithson
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1995 93% Smoke
  • Cyrus Cole
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1995 52% Waiting to Exhale
  • Director
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1994 26% Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter)
  • Cy Bianco
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1994 Lush Life
  • Buddy Chester
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1994 The Enemy Within
  • Colonel MacKenzie Casey
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1994 28% Blown Away
  • Anthony Franklin
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1994 67% Jason's Lyric
  • Maddog
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1994 71% Body Snatchers
  • Major Collins
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1993 Strapped
  • Director
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1993 Last Light
  • Fred Whitmore
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1993 Bank Robber
  • Officer Battle
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1992 27% Consenting Adults
  • David Duttonville
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1992 100% The Crying Game
  • Jody
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1992 46% Article 99
  • Dr. Sid Handleman
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1991 75% A Rage in Harlem
  • Jackson
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1991 Diary of a Hitman
  • Dekker
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1990 Criminal Justice
  • Jessie Williams
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1990 Downtown
  • Dennis Curren
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1989 62% Johnny Handsome
  • Dr. Steven Fisher
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1988 78% Bird
  • Charlie "Yardbird" Parker
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1987 89% Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Edward Garlick
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1987 Hands of a Stranger
  • Sergeant Delaney
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1987 83% Stakeout
  • Jack Pismo
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1986 92% The Color of Money
  • Amos
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1986 33% Bloodsport
  • Rawlins
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1986 88% Platoon
  • Big Harold
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1985 58% Vision Quest
  • Bulldozer
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1982 Tag: The Assassination Game(Everybody Gets It in the End)(Kiss Me, Kill Me )
  • Gowdy's Bodyguard
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1982 80% Fast Times At Ridgemont High
  • Charles Jefferson
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