Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker III (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director.\n', '

Whitaker has earned a reputation for intensive character study work for films such as Bird, The Crying Game, Platoon, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, The Great Debaters, The Butler and Arrival. He has also appeared in blockbusters such as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as Saw Gerrera and Black Panther as Zuri. He also appeared in Taken 3, a 2014 English-language French action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and written by Luc Besson.\n', '

For his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland, Whitaker won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, National Board of Review Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and various critics groups\' awards for a lead acting performance.\n', '