Forest Whitaker is a world famous actor. He received a huge number of awards for his roles. He is the fourth African American to be awarded an Oscar. The talented man earned this award for the excellent performance of the President of Uganda in the movie "The Last King of Scotland." Other films have become successful.
Forest's date of birth is July 15, 1961. The future actor was born in Longview. He did not live in this city for very long. After 4 years, the family decided to move to Los Angeles, having bought a house in which parents could comfortably live with their many children. In addition to Forest itself, there were 3 more children. Parents were not familiar with the creative environment. Mom worked as a teacher, and father worked as an insurance agent. At his work, he disappeared practically for days.
Thanks to the high efficiency of his father, the family practically did not refuse anything to herself. Children could enter a good university, get an education. Forest began to study in a private educational institution. He attended circles studying acting and vocal skills. For the first time, he appeared on stage at a young age. The debut fell on the play "Under the Canopy of the Milk Forest."
In the biography of Forest Whitaker, there was a place for sports. During his studies at the university, he received a sports scholarship. However, I did not think about the career of an athlete. The thing is that the guy had an injured spine. Because of this, subsequently he was deprived of a scholarship, and then the actor completed his studies.
Biography Changes
Injury and subsequent expulsion from college negatively affected the emotional state of Forest. However, cardinal changes in biography were positive. Forest entered the conservatory of music, where he began with renewed vigor to study vocal skills. Initially, he wanted to become an opera singer. However, over time, he realized that he was not interested in this area, and decided to conquer Hollywood. He didn’t leave the conservatory, he simply transferred to another faculty.
Then Forest entered the drama studio. There was an institution in Berkeley. By the time she started acting in full-length films, he already had an impressive enough education, which brought him great success later on.
The conquest of Hollywood
He received his first role in the film industry thanks to his sports past. Forest was invited to a role in the movie "Quick Change at the Ridgemont High School." The actor had to remember his youth and play a football player. Together with Robin Williams he worked on the filming of several military dramas. At first, Forest was invited mainly to multi-series projects that did not bring any success to a novice actor. He received minor and episodic roles. Then there were shootings in such projects as “Smoke”, “Individual” and “Battlefield: Earth”.
The role of Charles in the movie “Bird” brought huge popularity to Forest. The actor wanted to convey to the audience the image of a saxophonist, to demonstrate all his pain and hope. To do this, he sat for hours in the attic and tried to play the instrument. Forest perfectly coped with the role given to him. Film lovers and critics noticed him, eminent directors began to invite him to cult films. He got the main roles one after another. We can distinguish projects such as “Cruel game” and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai”.
Until 2006, Forest was actively filming not only in full-length, but also in multi-series projects. However, success came after the appearance in the film "Big Bet". His partners on the set were stars such as Kim Basinger and Denny de Vito. In 2006, appeared in front of fans in an Oscar-winning role. He appeared in the guise of the president in the film “The Last King of Scotland”, for which he received a prestigious award.
Popularity only increased after the release of the film “Kings of the Streets, ” in which Forest and Keanu Reeves played the police. In 2013, the actor actively worked on the set. As a result, such films as “Repentance”, “The Return of the Hero”, “From the Ashes”, “Butler”, “Left-Handed” appeared on the screens. And these are only the most successful projects in the Forest filmography for this year. Then there were shootings in science fiction films “Rogue One. Star Wars: Stories ”and“ Arrival ”.
Forest is not going to stop there, continuing to star in numerous film projects. Soon “City of Lies” and “The Fall” should be released.
