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OverviewAI-generated
Forest Whitaker is an American male artist whose professional career began in 1982. He is affiliated with the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative and has three children. Whitaker has been recognized in the Academy Award Best Actor collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
His body of work includes six titles, with top works listed as Repentance [DVD + Digital], Duke Ellington, In too deep, Ghost dog, and Hope floats. Additionally, Crossref records five works associated with him. On Last.fm, his music profile includes tags such as black metal, hardcore, spoken word, grindcore, and dark hardcore, with a playcount of 34,174 and 5,961 listeners.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Repentance [DVD + Digital]
- Duke Ellington
- In too deep
- Ghost dog
- Hope floats
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1961-07-15
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,961
- Total plays
- 34,174
Tags
1) Forest Whitaker is an american actor, producer, and director. 2) Forest Whitaker is also a Hardcore Extreme Metal band from San Antonio, named after the actor. Facebook Forest Whitaker Band Page <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Forest+Whitaker">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes
· 2015 · cited 6,301x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,337x
- Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity
· 1997 · cited 3,003x
- The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project
· 2011 · cited 2,875x
- Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,828x
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Quotes
- “[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. I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing. … being called Forest helped me find my identity.”
- “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.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Steven
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Longview
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Position held
- UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- drama fiction
- Sport
- karate
- Image
- Forest Whitaker by Gage Skidmore.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- Commons category
- Forest Whitaker
- date of birth
- 1961-07-15
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Forest Whitaker
- lifestyle
- vegetarianism
- Commons gallery
- Forest Whitaker
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- birth name
- Forest Steven Whitaker
- name in native language
- Forest Whitaker
- social media followers
- 224593
- writing language
- English language
- affiliation string
- Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative
- P10632
- Forest Whitaker
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Encyclopedic overview
Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) 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.
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 The Color of Money (1986), Panic Room (2002), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), and Black Panther (2018) as Zuri. Whitaker starred in the Star Wars franchise as Saw Gerrera, appearing in the film Rogue One (2016) and would later reprise the role in the television series Star Wars: Rebels (2017) and Andor (2022–2025), as well as the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forest Whitaker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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