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Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961 in Longview, Texas) is an
American actor, producer and director.
Forest has played in over 47 movies, produced over 8 films, and directed 5
movies. On screen since 1979, he has played a heavy, soft character, and a
variety of roles in between.
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He was the host and narrator of The Twilight Zone, which lasted one season.
African-American actor Forest Whitaker 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 set up by Sir John Gielgud, came Whitaker's
way when he entered the drama program at Berkeley. A seasoned stage veteran
at 21, the baby-faced Whitaker appeared in his first film, Fast Times at
Ridgemont High, in 1982, coincidentally making his debut in the role of a
football player.
Four years later, Whitaker attracted critical attention in the role of the
hulking young pool player who flummoxes Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) in
The Color of Money (1986). He was subsequently selected by director Clint
Eastwood for the prize role of jazz great Charlie "Bird" Parker in Bird
(1988), which won him the Best Actor award at Cannes. In 1992, Whitaker
gained true fame for his role as a captured British soldier whose prior
relationship with the mysterious Dil (Jaye Davidson) catalyzes the plot of
The Crying Game. The role proved to be Whitaker's true breakthrough, and he
went on to work steadily throughout the rest of the decade in films of
almost every possible genre. For Robert Altman's galumphing fashion epic
Pret-A-Porter (1994), the actor portrayed a fashion designer who has a tryst
with fellow designer Richard E. Grant; the sci-fi thriller Species (1995)
featured him as an empath on the trail of an alien, while in Smoke (1995),
Wayne Wang's fine adaptation of several of Paul Auster stories, Whitaker
portrayed an errant father confronted by his long-unseen son. He ended the
century by portraying the title character in Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The
Way of the Samurai (1999), and began the 21st century by starring,
appropriately enough, in the futuristic action film Battleship Earth (2000). |
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FOREST WHITAKER PICTURES |
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MOST POPULAR
Angelina Jolie
Jessica Alba
Paris Hilton
Scarlett Johansson
Jessica Simpson
Britney Spears
Christina Aguilera
Lindsay Lohan
Shakira
Beyonce
Hilary Duff
ADDITIONS
Miley Cyrus
Rihanna
Hayden Panettiere
Miranda Cosgrove
Selena Gomez
Demi Lovato
Vanessa Hudgens
Ashley Tisdale
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