Forest Whitaker

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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North and South (TV Series) (1985): Dir. Richard T. Heffron
Feat. Patrick Swayze, James Read, Kirstie Alley…; Heavyweight Civil War tome starring Patrick Swayze and James Read as young men caught up in the winds of American revolution, conflict and…
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987): Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker; Robin Williams tour–de–force performance as an irreverant, rebel radio–jock stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam War. The funny…
Stakeout (1987): Dir. John Badham
Feat. Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe…; Cops Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez run into some well–scripted comic entanglements on surveillance detail.
Bird (1988): Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Keith David; Eastwood's biopic tribute to legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie 'Bird' Parker. His turbulent and extraordinary life is sympathetically characterised…
Johnny Handsome (1989): Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern…; Mickey Rourke plays a deformed petty criminal who takes the rap for a major robbery. In prison he is given a new handsome face and proceeds to avenge…
Rage in Harlem, A (1991): Dir. Bill Duke
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens…; A sassy comic thriller, set in 50s Harlem. An entertaining cocktail of violence and buffoonery.
Crying Game, The (1992): Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker…; An IRA terrorist attempts to shrug off his past but becomes involved with the chantreuse sister of the man he was obliged to murder. Surprise hit…
Diary of a Hitman (1992): Dir. Roy London
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Sherilyn Fenn, Sharon Stone; An off–beat psychological study of a professional killer (Forest Whitaker) who fatally falls for his 'target' (Sherilyn Fenn). Wordy script is…
Consenting Adults (1993): Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Kevin Kline, Kevin Spacey, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio…; Kevin Kline becomes spooked by his high–living neighbour (Kevin Spacey) who's into such things as insurance scams and wife–swapping. His…
Lush Life (1994): Dir. Michael Elias
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Jeff Goldblum; Forest Whitaker and Jeff Goldblum bring this modest jazz film to vibrant life as top session horn players whose lives come to a cross–roads,…
Pret-a-Porter (1994): Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Sophia Loren…; Director Altman's take on the Paris fashion industry hasn't the edgy sarcasm or the incisiveness of his THE PLAYER and SHORT CUTS, but is…
Species (1995): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker…; Ben Kingsley rounds up 'experts' (Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina, Marg Helgenberger), a kind of A–Team of strange phenomena to…
Waiting to Exhale (1995): Dir. Forest Whitaker
Feat. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett; Well–trodden version of men–bemoaning female bonding flick in which Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett among others share tales of…
Smoke (1995): Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing…; The casual intersection of five lives in a modest corner of Brooklyn, NY, yields unexpected blessings. Writer Paul Auster's astute observations and…
Jason's Lyric (1996): Dir. Doug McHenry
Feat. Allen Payne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Forest Whitaker…; If you can't get enough boys in the 'hood, there's plenty of bloodshed and moral penance to be found in this tale of doomed lovers struggling to…
Phenomenon (1996): Dir. Jon Turteltaub
Feat. John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker…; John Travolta is aptly cast a genial mechanic who, after being struck by lightening, acquires super–intelligence that gradually ostracises him…
Body Count (1998): Dir. Robert Patton-Spruill
Feat. David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, John Leguizamo…; Derivative thriller following a group of thieves coping with the aftermath of a botched museum heist. RESERVOIR DOGS with a B–list cast, but…
Ghost Dog (1999): Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman…; Dir. Jim Jarmusch refines his zen–like poise in this weird, laidback comedy. Solemn hitman Forest Whitaker follows an ancient samurai code,…
Battlefield Earth (2000): Dir. Roger Christian
Feat. John Travolta, Forest Whitaker; Ludicrous though fun space–opera adapted from guru L. Ron Hubbard's book and a long–cherished project for Scientologist John Travolta.…
Fourth Angel, The (2001): Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Charlotte Rampling…; The inimitable Jeremy Irons plays a magazine editor whose family are killed in a terrorist attack by a Serbian man, and he decides to seek justice…
Panic Room (2002): Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam…; Gifted visual stylist David Fincher downsizes a little with a dark, Hitchcockian chamber piece that pushes enough of the right buttons to make it a…
Phone Booth (2002): Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes…; A lean, claustrophobic and entertaining thriller with the cute gimmick of a single location and played out in real time – Colin Farrell plays a…
First Daughter (2004): Dir. Forest Whitaker
Feat. Katie Holmes, Mark Blucas, Michael Keaton; Katie Holmes scrubs up nicely as the daughter of the US President heading off to college for an inexperienced taste of freedom, inevitably getting…
Mary (2005): Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Matthew Modine, Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker…; Badboy dir. Abel Ferrara returns to form with an intense, unpredictable study of Christian faith and the possiblities of redemption in the modern…
Even Money (2006): Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Kim Basinger, Danny De Vito, Kelsey Grammer…; Admonitory gambling drama concerning the lives of nine individuals who become ensnared in a world of high–class addiction and each other.…
Last King of Scotland, The (2007): Dir. Kevin MacDonald
Feat. Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington…; A riveting tale of the seductive nature of power, this is worth the admission alone for Forest Whitaker’s astonishing Oscar–winning turn as…
Air I Breathe, The (2007): Dir. Jieho Lee
Feat. Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia…; Slick ensemble drama charting four desperate city dwellers who find their destinies intertwined through the four emotions of Happiness, Pleasure,…
Street Kings (2008): Dir. David Ayer
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Hugh Laurie, Forest Whitaker…; LA CONFIDENTIAL author James Ellroy and the writer of TRAINING DAY team up for this ultra–macho, ultra–violent LAPD–centric…
Vantage Point (2008): Dir. Peter Travis
Feat. Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid…; Tipsy, time–swapping political thriller cribs liberally from RASHOMON and TV–terrorist heart–stopper 24 in congealing multiple…
Crips and Bloods: Made in America (2008): Dir. Stacy Peralta
Feat. Forest Whitaker; Incisive documentary examining the shared histories and violent rivalries of Los Angeles' most notorious street gangs. Tracing the roots of the…
Winged Creatures (Fragments) (2008): Dir. Rowan Woods
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce…; A tired formula is tackled admirably by Australian dir. Rowan Woods in this high–strung melodrama, revolving around half–a–dozen…
Dragon Hunters (2008): Dir. Guillaume Ivernel, Arthur Qwak
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Vincent Lindon; French–produced animated tale of two dragon hunters in a world that has become infested with a terrible plague, with famished, mutant creatures…
Where the Wild Things Are (2009): Dir. Spike Jonze
Feat. Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini…; Expanding on the simple text of Maurice Sendak's modern children's classic, this glorious, visionary adaptation from director Spike Jonze and writer…
Repo Men (2010): Dir. Miguel Sapochnik
Feat. Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga…; In a derivative future–world where artificial organs are readily sold and repossessed, this cocksure shoot em up pits a debt–riddled repo…
Experiment, The (2010): Dir. Paul Scheuring
Feat. Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Clifton Collins Jr.; Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker chew the scenery in this slick, if largely diminished remake of the 2001 German thriller, itself a dramatisation of…
Lullaby (Lullaby for Pi) (2010): Dir. Benoît Philippon
Feat. Rupert Friend, Clemence Poesy, Forest Whitaker; A jazz–playing, Some Like it Hot–idolizing drifter mourning the death of his soul mate strikes love with an idiosyncratic woman with a…
Ernest & Celestine (Ernest and Celestine) (2012): Dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Lambert Wilson, Lauren Bacall…; A bear and a mouse become firm friends in this lovely French animation.
Out of the Furnace (2013): Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson…; Christian Bale plays a destitute ex–con whose resolve to cut ties with his past is tested when his brother falls in with a notorious group of…
Last Stand, The (2013): Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville…; Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to his first love – blowing shit up – in this explosive comeback vehicle for the former action star, in…
Butler, The (2013): Dir. Lee Daniels
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey…; A stagy but sincere history of post–war Black America from the point of view of a White House servant (played by Forest Whitaker). It works as…
Taken 3 (Tak3n) (2014): Dir. Olivier Megaton
Feat. Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace…; Third addition to the Liam Neeson action franchise has our hero accused of a murder he never committed or witnessed. More scowling and punching…
Southpaw (2015): Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker…; Jake Gyllenhaal gets in the ring in this downbeat boxing drama as a former champ struggling to get his life back on track after losing his wife in a…
Roots (TV Mini-Series) (2016): Dir. Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles, Thomas Carter
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Derek Luke…; A powerful new adaptation of Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. This tragic story of resilience is told in four parts covering four…
Arrival (2016): Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker…; Amy Adams plays a linguistics expert who is recruited by the military to determine the intentions of seemingly–benign alien visitors who have…
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016): Dir. Gareth Edwards
Feat. Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk…; The phenomenal mythology of Star Wars expands again with this first of the "standalone" films, a suitably epic adventure that inaugurates a fresh…
Black Panther (2018): Dir. Ryan Coogler
Feat. Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o…; Another massive hit, and considered one of the best of the eighteen films in the Marvel Comic Universe, and the first to feature a predominantly…
Finding Steve McQueen (2019): Dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Feat. Travis Fimmel, Rachael Taylor, William Fichtner…; Lighthearted heist caper set in the 1970's, following the unlikely attempt by a group of small–time crims to steal $30 million from Nixon's…
Respect (2021): Dir. Liesl Tommy
Feat. Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans…; Musical biopic starring Jennifer Hudson as singer Aretha Franklin in the first two decades of her life, culminating with the recording of her…

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Filmography (All Films)