Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, producer and director. Repeatedly nominated for awards: Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy, BAFTA. The actor became widely known for his roles in the films: Password Swordfish, Clash, Ocean's 11 Friends, Iron Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and the series Resident Lies ", " Hotel Rwanda ", " Ambulance ".
Don Cheadle is not only a famous actor and cinematographer, he is also interested in music, conducts charity work and loves to play poker. Together with his friend, actor J. Clooney, he is actively involved in the problem of genocide and was awarded the Nobel Committee prize for drawing attention to this issue.
Children and teenagers
The boy was born in the fall of 1964, in the USA. In addition to Don, the family raised two more children. My father worked as a clinical psychologist, and my mother taught in high school. The boy spent school years in Denver, where the family moved after the birth of his third child.
As a teenager, he became interested in music, theater and pantomime, and from that moment his creative biography began. Learning to play the saxophone, performed with a school jazz band, participated in performances, sang in the choir and tried himself as a stand-up comedian.
After graduating from school, Don went to California, where he entered the Institute of Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts and received a bachelor's degree. As a student, Cheadle continued to develop his acting skills, performing on stage and in various television shows. At the same time, he met with cinema and played his first role in the comedy film "Imminent Violence", but this work did not bring him success.
Movie career
Don became famous at almost thirty years old when the actor got a role in the film "The Devil in a Blue Dress". His work was warmly received by audiences and critics, and Cheadle received his first nominations for the Los Angeles Film Critics Award as "Best Supporting Actor."
A year later, Don is again invited to shoot, his new work is the image of one of the main characters in the historical film "Rosewood". And soon the movie "Boogie Nights" appears on the screens. It is after these films that Don becomes a sought-after actor and continues to work actively in new projects.
Having met with the famous director Steven Soderbergh, Don actively collaborates with him in several films, thanks to which he becomes an increasingly popular actor. He starred in the films Out of Sight, Ocean's 11 Friends and his two subsequent sequels and the film Traffic, which won the Academy Award.
The next work of the actor was the drama "Hotel Rwanda". The film was subsequently recognized as one of the most inspiring in the history of cinema, and Don was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. A year later, the actor is offered a role in the film "Clash", also nominated for a film academy award.
Since 2010, Don begins to collaborate with Marvel Studios and participates in the filming of several films about superheroes: Iron Man (1, 2, 3 parts), Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, The Avengers: Infinity War " He gets the image of Colonel James “Rowdy” Rhodes - friend and assistant Tony Stark. In 2019, with the participation of Don, two more paintings from this series are released: “Captain Marvel” and “Avengers: Final”.
