Forest Whitaker

Academy Award Winning Artist and Activist

Forest Whitaker
Academy Award Winning Artist and Activist

Forest Whitaker is an American actor, producer, and director. He is also an advocate of Sustainable Development Goals appointed by Secretary-general of the United Nations.

For his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland, Whitaker won the Academy AwardBAFTA AwardGolden Globe AwardNational Board of Review AwardScreen Actors Guild Award, and various critics groups’ awards for a lead acting performance.

In 2012 he founded The Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) to promote the values of peace, reconciliation, and social development within communities impacted by conflict and violence.