This block contains the information about Forest Whitaker and provides an insight into the life of the celebrity. From here you can also learn when, how and why the profession of an actor was chosen. Some interesting facts are waiting for you here.

Forest Whitaker was born in July 1961; he is a famous actor and an actor who during his carrier got a lot of awards, such as: “Oscar”, “Golden Globe” and many, many others. Forest was born in Longview but when he was 4 he relocated with the family to Los Angeles. His father was a insurance agent, while his mother was a teacher with two degrees which she got while looking after her children. Beside Forest where were three more children in the family, an elder sister and two younger brothers. He learnt in Palisade high school where he was a professional football player. Besides studying in that school, he was attending singing classes, which helped him performing in the musicals. His first role he got in Dylan Thomas’s play. He graduated school in 1979. In 1996 Forest married with the ex actress Keisha Nash who he met on filming “Gone with the Fire”. Together they have four children. Forest is a vegetarian, but also he is doing yoga and has a black belt in karate. It is interesting to know, that since he was a little boy, he had a rare eye illness that makes him look a little mysterious to the public, though the actor is thinking about doing an operation, as this problem is bothering him a lot and it makes his ability to see, worse and worse by each year coming.

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Here you can learn about the movies Forest Whitaker acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Where the Wild Things Are - Ira (voice)	$100M	2009	$32.7M	$77.2M
Panic Room - Burnham	$48M	2002	$30.1M	$95.3M
Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 - Ker	$44M	2000	$11.5M	$21.5M
Vantage Point - Howard Lewis	$40M	2008	$22.9M	$72.3M
Species - Dan Smithson, Empath	$35M	1995		$60.1M
Repo Men - Jake	$32M	2010	$6.13M	$13.8M
Phenomenon - Nate Pope	$32M	1996	$16.2M	$105M
Hope Floats - Director, Executive Soundtrack Producer	$30M	1998	$14.2M	$60M
The Experiment - Barris	$21.8M	2010
Johnny Handsome - Dr. Steven Fisher	$20M	1989		$7.24M
Street Kings - Captain Jack Wander	$20M	2008	$12.5M	$26.4M
Consenting Adults - David Duttonville	$18M	1992		$21.6M
Waiting to Exhale - Director, Soundtrack Executive Producer	$16M	1995		$66.2M
The Great Debaters - Dr. James Farmer Sr.	$15M	2007	$3.6M	$30.2M
Hurricane Season - Al Collins	$15M	2009
The Color of Money - Amos	$13.8M	1986		$52.3M
Phone Booth - Captain Ed Ramey	$13M	2002	$15M	$46.6M
Body Snatchers - Major Collins	$13M	1993		$429K
Good Morning, Vietnam - Edward Garlick	$13M	1987		$124M
Light It Up - Officer Dante Jackson	$13M	1999	$2.41M	$5.87M