Forest Whitaker
Forest Steven Whitaker III (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, director, and producer.
He has earned a reputation for intensive character study work for films such as Bird, Platoon, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and Lee Daniels' The Butler, for his work in independent films and for his recurring role as LAPD Internal Affairs Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh on the Emmy Award-winning television series The Shield.
Whitaker won the Academy Award, British Academy Film Award, Golden Globe Award, National Board of Review Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and various critics groups awards for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland.
Early life
Whitaker was born July 15, 1961, in Longview, Texas. His family moved to Carson, California when he was four. His father, Forest Steven Jr., was an insurance salesman. Forest's mother, Laura Francis (née Smith), was a special education teacher who put herself through college and earned two master's degrees while raising her children. Whitaker has two younger brothers, Kenn and Damon, and an older sister, Deborah.
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Funny Epitaphs
The Gay Adventure
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2)
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
A Pessimist in Theory and Practice
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
The Infidel, Vol. II.
Nick of the Woods
The Hawaiian Archipelago
The Infidel, Vol. I.
Notes on Old Edinburgh
Calavar
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ALBUMS
- My Fear and Me released: 2014
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- La Notte released: 2013
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- Music For Dreams released: 2010
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- HOME released: 2013
- bird's nest 2013 released: 2013
- 9 released: 2013
- NEW BASIC released: 2011
- covers released: 2009
- フリー・ソウル・コレクション released: 2008
- MY LOVE released: 2008
- BIRDSONG EP -cover BEATS for the party released: 2007
- BREATH released: 2006
- Bird's Nest released: 2005
- vacation released: 2004
- DOUBLE CHANCE released: 2003
- 極上ハイブリッド released: 2002
- LIVE! tour 2000+1 released: 2001
- GAME released: 2000
- bird released: 2000
- MINDTRAVEL released: 2000
- 君の音が聴こえる場所へ released: 1999
- SOULS released: 1999
Bird
ALBUMS
- My Fear and Me released: 2014
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Bird
by: Grand SalvoI am a bird
With pretty peppered wings
And green across my throat
Or maybe it’s more
Like emerald from the sea
Caught in a storm
Wings tired and torn
I sheltered in a tree
And everything did dance
As if the world was mad
Then came a groan
Like tendons and bones
Were torn and cracked and split
The tallest of them all
The river caught its fall
He was a man
With heavy gentle hands
He used to feed me grains
Pecking from his palm
He'd fill my head with praise
Then like a grub
Becomes beautiful
He disappeared and then
Came back as a bear
Oh, I never saw
Magic before
I know I will again
But until then
I'll wait my one
Until the day you come
Now he’s a fish
And I can't be with
Him so I'll wait instead
Where the river ends
I know that we’ll meet there
So now all I do
Is wait here for you
At this great oceans edge
I know that you’ll be
A bird the next time
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